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The First Opium War is the best example I could find: a small expeditionary force ran circles around a peer country's army for more than a year and crippled it
by Kinrany 1y ago
The First Opium War is the best example I could find: a small expeditionary force ran circles around a peer country's army for more than a year and crippled it thanks to total naval superiority and qualitatively better artillery and rifles.
The conquest of Aztecs is another example: Spain annihilated a country with twice the population. Though they cheated with bioweapons of course.
- pydry 1y agoThese wars predate the industrial revolution and manufacturing.
- IAmBroom 1y agoMoving the goalposts.
- ashoeafoot 1y ago? They did not even have a concept for germs?
- IAmBroom 1y agoSmallpox and other germ diseases killed more natives than Spanish bullets did. They are being jocular. Emit broken sounds of rapid exhalations to signal acceptance of the joke.
- leereeves 1y agoMost of the credit for the conquest of the Aztecs should be given to the hundreds of thousands of native soldiers fighting against the Aztecs, not "bioweapons" (which hurt both sides) or Spanish guns.