| leftcider, your examples of guerillas defeating standing armies is unfitting. A strong, experienced military could defeat a guerilla force providing it had the will and ruthlesness neccesary to do so. A standing army fighting a guerilla army changes the conditions of war for the standing army, and in order to win would have to be prepared to commit atrocious acts. In Vietnam, the US military was hampered at one level by political machinations above it, and also the will of the soldiers fighting. If the US military believed in it's cause to the extent the Viet Minh guerillas did, they could have won. But they didn't.
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