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data point: aiui the Iraqi military had to purposefully use encircling helicopter-gunship fire to keep Kurdish villagers confined to gassing-range because otherwise it would've been too easy to render the gas ineffective by simply getting the hell out of the immediate area
How successful was Saddam at keeping insurgencies _down_?
not wildly successful in the long term, but things have their own momentum and at some point the imperative to suppress insurgency effectively takes a backseat to the nearer-term imperative to just straight-up kill people that oppose you because they opposed you
Btw, is there a ratio between the size of a country's population and how many people they _could_ wipe off the face of the Earth using 1940s tech?
hm, probably, but probably only if the scope of the question is limited to deliberate and methodical depopulation and excludes depopulation-by-unintended-consequence, otherwise we'd likely just end up doing mainly epidemeology
I meant something closer to projected "yields" from concentration-and-extermination complexes
idk, it's a good q. you'd think so but offhad it seems like there are few dozen factors (energy, logistics, industrial capacity, etc) that could significantly weaken the correspondence too
Population transfers are easier to corellate.
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