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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yes the US did all sorts of horrible things in these wars and I dont mean to downplay that, only put it in perspective those horrible things tended to be exceptions or edge cases rather than part of a systematic effort to kill everyone until resistance ended
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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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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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