> Effective at what though? The article is not exactly painting a rosy picture of EIC, nor should it. The EIC overthrew a gunpowder empire with vast resources

> Effective at what though? The article is not exactly painting a rosy picture of EIC, nor should it. The EIC overthrew a gunpowder empire with vast resources and one of the largest militaries in the world with 1,000 European soldiers and a few dozen administrators in London. There's incredible lessons in there, orthogonal to whatever you're talking about.