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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That's so rarely true. Even the Nazis were obscuring the Holocaust before the end of the war was obvious. It takes a lot for people to go full Mongol or Pol Pot these days - humanism has sunk in everywhere
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The background rate of mass death due to state failures is about to change bigtime, though
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