Thanks, I confess I haven't read that far yet. It's a long article and I'm already convinced anyway; I didn't know Diamond is cancelled now. I read his book a l

Thanks, I confess I haven't read that far yet. It's a long article and I'm already convinced anyway; I didn't know Diamond is cancelled now. I read his book a long time ago so I forget the details, but I remember Yali's question and it never crossed my mind that trying to answer it might be read as racist. Victory against overwhelmingly superior forces is not unheard of in history. As a classic example, see the Battle of Agincourt (~7000 Englishmen vs many tens of thousands of French, and it was a rout... for the French).