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Right, the superior technology and advanced weaponry was what led the US to so quickly and decisively crush insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq using dusty old A
by rm_-rf_ 6y ago
Right, the superior technology and advanced weaponry was what led the US to so quickly and decisively crush insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq using dusty old AK-47s and cheap improvised explosive devices.
- kcb 6y agoNow compare the casualties between the US and Afghanistan or Iraq.
- drak0n1c 6y agoIn a civil-war scenario, that level of destruction would be suicide for a government's economic and international survival and cause mass military desertion/defection. That counts as deterrence.
- 8note 6y agoThe US does not count mercenary deaths as casualties IIRC
- gowld 6y agoWikipedia does.