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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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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You didn't *think* you were wrong, did you? You're not. You're on-the-money.
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Maybe we just shouldn’t go to war unless the stakes are worth total war approach.
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Do the war you’re good at young Eigen.
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yea, this is pretty much how the sri lankan civil war ended given a long enough conflict (on domestic soil) i imagine it’d go the same way here.
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important distinction between blowing up your own backyard vs someone else’s
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Haha it'd be really bad if there was an ascendant power with the capacity to commit total, unadulterated genocide in pursuit of power. Man I hope no one capable of that shows up in the near future, especially not ones with advanced biotech capacity. Haha what's a gene drive???
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ha ha ha i think about that but try not to say it out loud because im superstitious ha ha ha ha
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if both sides are willing, then in the end it's first to the finish line.
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