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Originally Posted by Envitro
Hmmm... Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, as just a few examples in recent history.
Before that, Bosnia, Vietnam?
All of those examples are civilians/insurgents/guerillas fighting and succeeding against an entrenched and superior fighting force with tanks, APCs, helicopters, bombers and fighter jets.
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Aside from the fact they in no way "lost" any of those wars aside from being embarrassed by lack of capability within the context of those wars and retreating due to political pressure, in absolutely none of those did they actually use the full brunt of their force or "purposely" target civilian populations. If the American military decides tomorrow it's no longer going to abide by any rules of war you can have 5 billion guerilla fighters if you want, you'll be eating nothing but long range missile strikes and breathing in nerve agents, best case you're living in caves (which pretty much every one of the guerilla forces you named had to do) for the rest of your life unless you feel like surrendering