OFF: Founding dad dudes, and guns

[Jerry G]

Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> On 01 Sep 2007, at 09:35, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
>> As with the rise of feudalism, a peasant militia's only a
>> defence against oppression when military tech is cheap enough for them
>> to match the army. We've not been there for a long long time.
>
> Well, I dunno ... Iraq, Vietnam, etc.
>
> It seems like one can at least make a fair go of things against an 
> army with the available military tech!
  That depends on whether the military uses a scorched Earth policy or 
not. If they're
worried about collateral damage (civilians / infrastructure), you'd have 
a better chance
than a kill 'em all and let god sort em out approach.