This one must have been written close to deadline.
The government, united, with good intelligence, with competent and willing troops, has more firepower than you. But the government, riven with dissent, not knowing where its enemies are, trying to send soldiers who don't agree with it into harm's way, has a harder time. It's terribly expensive to put down a popular insurrection, and many insurrections don't even stay where they're put.
Politicians and the people who work for them don't like to be shot at. The threat of unpredictably applied, lethal force changes the atmosphere, even if government forces would hypothetically win on an imaginary level playing field. This is why terrorism is such a problem: With miniaturized technology and quick travel on his side, even one guy can cause a lot of trouble.
The writer's calculations are about 225 years out of date.
But the government, riven with dissent, not knowing where its enemies are, trying to send soldiers who don’t agree with it into harm’s way, has a harder time.
Excellent point!!
A science fiction book written years ago, "WASP", did exactly that. It showed how one man, with the right technology and gadgets, could bring a country to its knees.