Security, Me, Mixed Media, 2018Submitted by Stickfigurewisdom t3_10k8028 in Art
Djinnwrath t1_j5q9pkt wrote
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I'm ok with the military having guns.
ValhallaGo t1_j5qe2m7 wrote
Neat. And what happens when average people have to defend themselves?
You’re probably going to say something about how average people can’t stop a major military, right?
But like… Afghanistan and Iraq and Vietnam have shown otherwise. The Taliban (and various affiliated groups) held out for twenty years. So yeah I think average people can do a lot.
Djinnwrath t1_j5qecda wrote
The average person is not going to be more able to defend themselves with a gun.
Technology has changed.
ValhallaGo t1_j5qfnck wrote
How has technology changed since we pulled out of Afghanistan?
I’m asking this as former signals intelligence that was deployed to Afghanistan.
How has technology changed?
Djinnwrath t1_j5qhi13 wrote
Tell you what, you can have a pile of guns, and I'll have a pile of drones and vertical strike missiles.
ValhallaGo t1_j5qin69 wrote
Well, how did that work out in Afghanistan?
Spoiler: it didn’t.
We had twenty years and all the drones and all the ordinance couldn’t solve the issue.
I’m not singling out america here, mind you. Every conventional military struggles against guerrilla warfare.
RedditSpyAccount t1_j5qsynx wrote
There have been several examples of the US having superior technology and still not accomplishing their mission objectives.
Djinnwrath t1_j5qthvg wrote
lol, 1) most of that was in the past, technology has changed, and 2) let's see billy bob with his personal arsenal of ARs hide in a 2 foot tall tunnel system for a year.
RedditSpyAccount t1_j5qu8ma wrote
In the past? Are you dense? The US pulled out of Afghanistan after 20 years in 2022.
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