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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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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eh i think it’s reasonable to expect that this holds true for the remainder of the empire we have a certain self conception thats fundamental to the nation of “we don’t do that”, plus a belief in the underdog plus modern media makes it very hard to censor this stuff
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im not thinking its likely the US specifically would do this anytime soon
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when has that ever been the case in modern warfare though? the most extreme example I can think of is the eastern front, but even there the germans had trouble with partisans despite having no political or moral qualms about genocide whatsoever.
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they were still fighting armies in the field
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