• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    America has ALWAYS been thwarted by guerilla insurgencies, and that’s exactly what we are going to be fighting here.

    Ignore history, and you are doomed to repeat it, is supposed to be cautionary. For MAGA, it’s a game plan.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Trouble not thwarted. The US Marshals and the Army were able to largely deal with the various bandits (my ancestor included), warbands, and insurgents in the American Southwest for example. The problem has largely been a post-WW1 issue due to a doctrine built off of fighting the Germans aka a near peer. Though I wouldn’t call the Iranians an insurgency or even guerrilla, their tactics being more akin to Polish or Swiss assymetrical war planning, if you know you can’t beat them fair you fight dirty, no shade it’s a war of survival and all tactics are valid under such circumstances in my opinion.