one thing I think people dont consider enough when looking at eg the ability of the Taliban to resist US force, or the Viet Cong, or whatever, in the context of the value of small arms is that the US did not adopt the tactic of "kill everyone until the fighting stops"
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anyway while yes its true it would have been impossible for the US to adopt such measures in the current environment for a variety of reasons theres no reason to expect that constraint to hold forever in all cases
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so if your plan for revolution or resistance or whatever relies on guerilla warfare to bleed out an external force this might be worth considering
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i should also be clear i am not arguing /for/ a kill everyone strategy. i think it is abominable. but many disagree and they might be able to enact their preferences sooner or later
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to be extremely extremely clear this is something I hope im wrong about but it might be worth considering what the likelihood of it not being wrong is if this is something important to you idk glhf
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political scientist who specialized in a related field hmm also note "kill everyone" only gets easier with certain tech advances I am reluctant to name but you can probably easily imaginehttps://twitter.com/knrd_z/status/1420567263388778500?s=19 …
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good read on authoritarian counterinsurgency methodshttps://twitter.com/Joe_Adorno3/status/1420569862947184644?s=19 …
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number of surviving confederate soldiers: zero
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I mean, a white Southern population of 5 Million took 250K deaths and another 100K-ish wounds.
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