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[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Same way you deal with commanders in chief of real armies - just ask JFK... or any of these guys for that matter.

Asymmetrical class warfare - particularly when you have the benefit of overwhelming numerical superiority while being dispersed through the broad population is devastatingly effective. There's a reason the best funded military in the world is consistently drawn into quagmires with villagers brandishing soviet-era small arms and improvised explosives.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (17 children)

Have you ignored the part about drones in my comment?

Look up why South Vietnam failed. Watch the training videos of the Afghan army. There was no will to win, for whatever reason.

If you have overwhelming numerical superiority, you don't need war, you can vote.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did we have drones in afghanistan? Because the US sure did have trouble there. How many people are in Afghanistan? How many are in the US?

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Afghanistan was pre-chatGPT. We are not there yet but soon, drones will operate automatically. Numbers won't matter.

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