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Djinnwrath t1_j5qecda wrote

Reply to comment by ValhallaGo in Security, Me, Mixed Media, 2018 by Stickfigurewisdom

The average person is not going to be more able to defend themselves with a gun.

Technology has changed.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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RedditSpyAccount t1_j5qsynx wrote

There have been several examples of the US having superior technology and still not accomplishing their mission objectives.

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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.

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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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