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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Replying to @eigenrobot
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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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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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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