• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    They seem to think that their AKs are going to have any effect against a modern military.

    Worked pretty well in Afghanistan

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      5 months ago

      The highway system in america was built by Eisenhower after he came back from Europe because he saw how awesome the Autobahn was for moving tanks across the country. That’s why they’re raised like that, to support heavy tanks and artillery.

      American military can project force within the United States in a way that it couldn’t within Afghanistan.

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          5 months ago

          It’s central to a guerrilla war. Force projection is how guerrillas win. If you’re just stuck up in the hills, sucking your own dicks, nobody cares that you’re in opposition.

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      5 months ago

      Give or take a few hundred thousand dead Afghanis, sure.

      The occupation was intolerable to generations of locals, but multiple generations died in order to force the occupation out. In the end, the US only left because they lost their resupply corridors through China, Russia, and Pakistan, thanks to exciting new wars breaking out on other sides of the globe.