Timelordwho wrote:
Can you provide one instance where "wanting it hard enough" has liberated a country?
I can provide literally hundreds of examples where superior firepower, strategy and power has won out.
'Won out'? What does that even mean in terms of war-fighting? If you mean it killed the most people, that maybe true, but its a pretty crass way to define victory
What I'm talking about tho' is if a superior force attacks an inferior force in its ( the inferior forces) own territory, then fire power and technology is not ever going to be enough to defeat the inferior force (Unless of course you kill every last person able to resist. Is
that what you meant?). Hence the relentless and ultimately futile efforts of the US led forces in Iraq to win over the 'hearts and minds' of the occupied peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anyway, you asked for an example. Heres a few.....
Afghanistan v Great Britain. 18th Century. (Twice)
Afghanistan v USSR 19th Century ( a pattern forming there!)
Somalia v USA
Vietnam v USA
Korea V USA
Iraq v USA and the coalition of the (lol)willing.
Israel v Palestinians
Etc.
Also.
Guenny wrote:
I think using history as a fact basis for the application of technology is oxymoronic.
A flint tipped spear is Hi-tech to someone carrying a knobbly stick for defence. Just sayin'.
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