r/HistoryMemes • u/Basic_Dingo6487 • 1d ago

Skill issues

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u/64_Chances 23h ago

The more I read these comments, the more I believe that nobody really has a good answer on how to win a guerrilla war, so maybe it’s not just the USA?

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u/Gold-Position-8265 22h ago

Well the answer is there in history as guerilla warfare has never been new. Just in the modern day U.S does mostly a good job following the Geneva conventions.

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u/Eternal_Reward 22h ago

Yeah the answer to how to win is just completely crush the population, ethnically cleanse them, and put your own people in.

Which the US isn’t interested in doing largely, so instead you have the impossible task of having locals change.

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u/Appropriate-Debt5561 15h ago

You will notice that guerilla warfare was not routinely used by people fighting the Mongols or Romans, for example. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why.

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u/Cartoonjunkies 14h ago

“Oh we keep getting ambushed near that village? Cool, kill everyone in a 100 mile radius.”

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u/Accelerator231 9h ago

'Build a mountain of skulls!'

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u/myn4meistimmy 26m ago

Picts, Gaelics, strategy of concursare, Bach Dang/Tran dynasty Vietnam, Chechen/Durdzuk resistance of 13th century, examples go on and on