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Does the genuine well trained militia also have genuine well-tested nuclear weapons, predator drones, recon and comm satellites, redundant infrastructure and ea
by sudhirj 9y ago
Does the genuine well trained militia also have genuine well-tested nuclear weapons, predator drones, recon and comm satellites, redundant infrastructure and easily access to manufacturing capabilities?
Every colonised and now forgotten group of people had what they thought was a genuine well trained militia, for all the good it did them.
- splintercell 9y agoAmericans have fought world's most powerful army and won, this is why they wrote it in their constitution. At the same time they have managed become world's most powerful army and still not managed to win against a ragtag group of militants. If citizens of any country get to make a claim about the effectiveness of an armed citizenry, then it is the Americans.
- danans 9y ago> not managed to win against a ragtag group of militants. Those militants are not ragtag. They all receive state sponsorship in the form of finances, hardware, training and logistics. Your analysis also ignores the reality of asymmetric warfare, in particular the asymmetry of the value placed on the lives of the combatants on the different sides. Terrorist organizations are far more willing to sacrifice their combatants than the US is, and they have a pool of people who share this outlook to recruit from, which is why they persist. In the event of an internal armed conflict within a developed country, all sides are likely to value the lives of their fighters similarly.