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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 28

      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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    2. morning medication‏ @PRiMEALiAS Jul 28
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      List of historical examples where "kill everyone until the fighting stops" was successful? Bonus points for when the success was long-term? (decades, generations, permanent?)

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 28
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      examples that spring to mind and fit this to varying degrees include Roman genocidal wars against the Germanics, various Mongol conquests, and plausibly some of the US-Indian wars; I don't know the last well enough to be sure usually worked for a couple generations

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 28
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          Baghdad never really recovered from 1268

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        2. morning medication‏ @PRiMEALiAS Jul 28
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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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        3. morning medication‏ @PRiMEALiAS Jul 28
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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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        1. Purple Whale‏ @PurpleWhale12 Jul 28
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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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        1. Sebastian Lopez‏ @Lhikevikk Jul 28
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          idk the Germanics seem a pretty bad example of successfully defeated insurgency

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        1. Based Bohemond‏ @BorlaugDavid Jul 28
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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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        2. Funicular‏ @funicular1 Jul 28
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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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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jul 28
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          I try not to think about this my hunch is it doesnt but who knows

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        1. Korey Strike‏ @KStrikesCommie Jul 28
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          Even the plague deaths/ genocides of the native Americans fits here

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