Posted on 04/21/2014 5:37:11 PM PDT by equalator
It was a dramatic and violent reversal to the usual order of events when notorious urban officials, called chengguan in Chinese, get into conflicts with street vendors and pedestrians.The crowd saw Mr. Huang being attacked, and decided to intervene. Online rumours then rapidly proliferated that “someone was beaten to death by chengguan,” which intensified public anger and drove more people to the scene.
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Logistics is the key. See Viet Nam, Afghanistan, and other asymmetrical wars.
/johnny
It deflected that in Iraq.
/johnny
Or after a few days...some long pig.
In the initial set-piece battles that baby will wipe out any opposition, I grant you that. Just as the US walked into Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s holding on to what you’ve won afterward that is the difficult bit.
When the remit of your government doesn’t extend much outside the Green Zone, you aren’t in charge, no matter how fancy your drones and Apache gunships are.
At least the US forces had a safe base back in the homeland to refit their weaponry, rest and relieve their troops and buy their supplies. When the homeland is itself enemy territory it’s not so easy.
I completely agree. I’m just saying that most will not go guerrilla as you laid out out of basic morality...at first. It will depend on how brutal the govt would get trying to suppress them. And until they do, they are at an extreme disadvantage against these thing and the troops not opposed to wiping them out.
Sad, but true......”terror” is an effective tool of any insurgency. In any conflict with an armed bureaucracy, the gentlemen’s rules of conflict are not valid. Just as “they” have no problem going for soft targets to get to what they want, so too must the insurgent have no moral issues with going after their opponent’s most cherished and sanctified treasures. The apparatchiks giving the orders might think twice if he or she knew that their own families were considered very valuable targets.
Some don't have that restraint.
Old men with nothing to lose come to mind.
/johnny
Of course you are right, very few people would have the stomach to engage in guerrilla warfare, it is not the glamorous business of blowing up trains in night time France with Sophia Loren beside you puffing on a Gaulloise. It involves blowing the brains out of unarmed civilians on buses or in front of their kids (I grew up in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 80s so I know what I am talking about).
And you are right, the government would have to be tyrannical and beyond reform before you would go down that route.
My point is something we both agree on; although superficially that hardware looks unbeatable and initially it would be, in fact if one sets one’s mind to it it would end up resembling a dinosaur stuck in a tar pit.
True. But pick 1000 ‘average Americans and maybe what...4 or 5 would?. Most can’t stand up and vote for what they say they believe in. And that’s on the right. Given a total societal collapse scenario, most would cower or go Vischy as Washington discovered back when the average man was far braver than today.
But those few may be enough as they were back then.
/johnny
Yes. Even the new “Homeland Security” vehicles won’t do very well covered with burning gasoline. They are not made to handle that.
Indeed ;)
Always seems to work out that way.
Eh, except in Iraq they go back to a base. These government “workers” have homes and families. We know where they live.
Most heartwarming. Thanks for posting the pics.
And if you start seeing those families leaving town/moving before the SHTF, it’s a pretty good indication something bad is in the offing.
We have become a bunch of wimps. Not all, but most.
Yep, as long as there have been tyrants, there have been men willing to do their dirty work in exchange for a favorable word from their masters.
I think the main point is that you can't expect to attack the points that are reinforced the most and succeed.
The better questions are... how far will it go on an empty tank? Can it drive over that plywood covered hole you dug in the road last week? How long can the driver stay in there without supplies? How well does it run with the exhaust packed full of mud?
It's always the easy stuff, it's almost always right in front of your eyes, but as people, we tend to make things more complicated than they really are. The designers are no different. They created a "bomb-proof" vehicle, but it still has the most basic of weaknesses.
Really deep ditch or gullys are no friends to army tanks or vehicles like this.... then fill it with water....
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