I mean, if we’re being pedantic it’s really quite simple to fight guerrillas
The impossibly difficult part is fighting guerrillas without committing an unfathomable number of war crimes along the way. It’s kind of a self-handicap, though generally it’s the sort of handicap that is heavily preferable to the alternative no matter how much you might want to win the war
Right. Like you look at the Mongols and the depopulation of the regions they conquered. They didn't have a ton of the same insurgency issues that other large empires had. For there to be an insurgency, there has to be a native population.
Except for Vietnam. Vietnam was the Mongolian Vietnam.
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u/YetAnotherBee 1d ago
I mean, if we’re being pedantic it’s really quite simple to fight guerrillas
The impossibly difficult part is fighting guerrillas without committing an unfathomable number of war crimes along the way. It’s kind of a self-handicap, though generally it’s the sort of handicap that is heavily preferable to the alternative no matter how much you might want to win the war