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mlg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s genuinely good enough for urban warfare.

  Too bad a lot of these guys are rural

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends on how “the government” fights, too. Guns don’t do shit against chemical warfare (tear gas etc.) or bombings. IMO, in a modern, developed state an insurgency can’t do shit if the military isn’t at least neutral, or they get support from foreign forces.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not paying a lot of attention to Myanmar I take it

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Myanmar is exactly the kind of country that made me specify “modern, developed state”. Their military ain’t shit compared to the US or most european countries.

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    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      insurgency can do a lot, especially if the “developed” nation doesn’t want to level the place because it’s either their place too or will result in many civilian casualties.

      A large part of the US special forces mission is training locals in insurgent/gorilla tactics. Most of the swiss defense posture is training their general population to just be familiar enough with weapons and tactics to wreck havoc on invaders, their standing army and armaments are really small.

      Source: a lot of time deployed

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        if the “developed” nation doesn’t want to level the place because it’s either their place too or will result in many civilian casualties.

        You seem to have more trust in the Trump government than I do. They will absolutely go for mass civilian casualties if there’s a big insurgency in the US.

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