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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Baghdad never really recovered from 1268
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Indian wars for sure. Mongol empire lasted a handful of generations & collapsed. Germanics took longer but they eventually ruled Italy. They lasted longer than the 20 years the US was in Afghanistan, but things happen faster now that we no longer depend on runners, horses, sail~
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… OK here's one that quasi applies. US nuclear bombs on Japan. There were plans to keep dropping them until they ran out. Japan turns from a military culture to a pacifist one and loves the US & catgirls.
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More recently, WWII has to be the go to proof of concept. It also has a control group in WWI where the victors pursued a limited victory.
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idk the Germanics seem a pretty bad example of successfully defeated insurgency
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That’s just conquest used to work, going back millennia. Every single empire is just “killing until fighting stops”.
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I think Sherman's march to the sea also counts. I think if our ongoing Civil War 2 goes kinetic, it will become explicitly eliminationist almost immediately.
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I try not to think about this my hunch is it doesnt but who knows
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Even the plague deaths/ genocides of the native Americans fits here
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