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To: allmendream

21 men with rocks beats one man with an M4 and 20 rounds every time, IF 20 of them are willing to die.

In cases of 100 to 1 odds, small military advantage is more powerful as a pschological weapon than as a real advantage, but a real advantage never the less.


21 posted on 02/10/2011 7:35:56 AM PST by SampleMan (If all of the people currently oppressed shared a common geography, bullets would already be flying.)
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To: SampleMan
Well yes, a psychological weapon becomes a real advantage, UNLESS you have a hardcore cadre of troops willing to engage in the “cold calculus” of attrition.

There are few groups of warriors I would be willing to bet would be able to withstand that disproportionate level of carnage and still fight on to the last.

24 posted on 02/10/2011 7:41:07 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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