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Machine guns are pretty handy for guerilla warfare. Tanks, not so much.

• pavel_lishin 16y ago
  That was just an example. Others include: * helicopters * jet airplanes * satellites * artillery * light armored vehicles * unmanned drones etc. As a side note, I fucking hate HN's formatting.
  • trafficlight 16y ago
    The US military has all of those things and yet the Iraqi resistance still put up a good fight.
    • semanticist 16y ago
      Because the coalition forces in Iraq aren't engaged in ethnic cleansing. If they weren't worried about killing civilians and looking bad on the news, they could probably level most of the country.
  • swombat 16y ago
    With or without all those weapons, an ethnic cleansing operation becomes markedly more difficult when the local population all have assault weapons and training in how to use them...