frankj1 wrote:actually, they reinvented warfare in some ways.
and it has been reinvented again over the 50 years since.
You probably know I am not anti gun ownership. But it's a romantic nostalgic dream to think it will protect us from an oppressive regime in this day and age. We need something more forceful than bullets for that.
Yes and no. They stuck to the basics, and we just weren't prepared to deal with it. Simple works. Tech makes one over confident. We threw a gazillion sensors on the Ho Chi Minh trail, and then dropped another couple of million dollars in bombs on sensor signals. All we destroyed were trees and monkeys.
No, no it hasn't. It still comes down to a man with a gun. The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not going to go into boring ass details, but I watched two guys with a bolt gun and a pistol defeat a site protected by IR, Laser and a plethora of other sensors. With a 4000 year old piece of technology. Yeah. Bring on the tech. Screw that. Give me a smart cat with a plan and discipline.
"It's hard to stop a man that knows he right and keeps on coming." Louis L'Amour
A buddy of mine, retired ISP, drove out for this this morning. He was outside the States Attorney's offices walking with a sign. He's a good man. Had other friends on the ground there as well. Virginia is the last damned place I'd try this crap. I mean hell, how's that turn in stuff working in New Jersey and Vermont?
I'm not sure they want to back good folks into a corner. That usually doesn't work out well.