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To: TimF who wrote (94608)1/10/2005 9:56:08 PM
From: unclewest   of 793843
 
If Iraq was 10 times a big, even without being richer or more advanced, and the insurgency scaled with the increase in size, we probably couldn't put down the insurrection.

Your last few posts are right on.

And the reason imo the Iraqi insurgency is not doing better right now is likely that we disarmed so many of them initially and destroyed their ammo dumps.
But new supplies are reportedly now pouring into the country from two directions, Syria and Iran. This war may indeed be won with rifles and small explosive devices. Many have been.

The mighty Soviet Army was defeated in Afghanistan by similar lightly armed forces.

Insurgencies including guerrilla warfare are not world wars in the sense of the first two. One side is usually terribly outgunned. But history provides many many examples of that side winning.
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