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The Taliban lost immediately and was suppressed indefinitely until the US decided to leave. It's a good demonstration of how well the US military can suppress e
by qcnguy 1y ago
The Taliban lost immediately and was suppressed indefinitely until the US decided to leave. It's a good demonstration of how well the US military can suppress even decentralized and suicidally fanatical movements for as long as it wants.
- anigbrowl 1y agoSuppressing them didn't cause them to stop fighting, though. In every guerrilla war the conventional army is nominally in charge, and generally never loses any sort of pitched battle. The whole military theory of guerilla warfare is to avoid shootouts in favor of hitting the enemy and running away.
- qcnguy 1y agoNo it didn't, but the US military isn't going to get bored of the US and leave.
- anigbrowl 1y agoIndeed not, but they could well get bored of who's ordering them around and make those persons leave.
- qcnguy 1y agoYou're admitting you're wrong? You're now agreeing that the US army could suppress an insurrection indefinitely and could only be stopped by a split within the military itself. A scenario that has nothing in common with what happened in Afghanistan.
- dredmorbius 1y agoA/K/A the Fabian Strategy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy> Old as the hills ... of Rome, that is. Also exemplified in the Fabian Society's philosophy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society>.