Unconfentional war has been successful, but at tremendous cost.
The Geneva Convention requires combatants to wear a uniform recognizable at a distance, and to separate themselves from noncombatants and avoid targeting civilians, hospitals, churches, schools.
Only through the violation of the Geneva Conventions have unconventional combatants been successful.
The Geneva convention specifies that when illegal combatants do not separate themselves from noncombatants, they do not thereby gain protection, but rather protection is removed from the noncombatants. The rules are written that way so that combatants have no incentive to put noncombatants at risk. Damage to noncombatants when combatants illegally colocate with and hide behind noncombatants is the responsibility of the illegal combatants.
Combatants have a choice with the US military: (1)Surrender, (2) Be destroyed, or (3) Try to hide behind noncombatants. Option 3 leads to massive casualties among the noncombatants, casualties that are legally the responsibility of the unconventional warrior.
"Legally"? That's not how that game is played.
Are you an FBI or other alphabet agent? You make about enough sense to be something like that baiting people on the internet. I am just a country girl with really no dog in “this” fight but you are unreal. If it comes to the point where people in numbers large enough to matter are going to war with other people or the government I would imagine their priority would be to win. I don’t think they will fight the nice neat fight that we think of as war now. Otherwise why bother? Would there be large losses of life? Most likely, I can’t imagine otherwise. The thing is when people, not as any part of an organized military decide to take up arms and fight for whatever reason they have been pushed to the point of no return. At that point winning is all that will matter. Lord help us if it comes to that, but I won’t be betting on the outcome. Small numbers have overcome overwhelming forces many times in history so there is no predicting the outcome.