It doesn't really matter what kind of guns the proletariat has, the governments of the world have much more efficient weaponry.
It doesn't really matter what kind of guns the proletariat has, the governments of the world have much more efficient weaponry.
Very common misconception. Many people who have never been a part of or faced off against guerrilla tactics share that misconception. Throughout history very few revolutions have been won by the superior force. Even going to modern history we have every America war from Korea and Vietnam to the modern "war on terror" as evidence that armed civilians are capable of winning a war against a force with superior numbers, weaponry and other equipment, training, and violence of action.
Vietnam is perhaps the best example as the Vietnamese not only fought off the US and its many allies, but did so after over two decades of continuous war against the Japanese and the French.
Out side of US examples you can look at the current war in Syria, with the Syrian military fighting against the terrorists for nearly a decade now. Of course this example isn't the best as ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the other terrorists inside Syria have been supported by NATO and a few others for the duration.
In a civil war the military is even more limited than usual. They know they are fighting their own friends and family, they are unable to do widespread bombings or shellings, everything they do to establish or strengthen martial law turns more citizens into rebels, chemical and biological warfare are a no go, and the rebels can easily destroy railways, bridges, the power grid, factories, industrial centers, etc, etc.
Guns in the hands of good men are so important that the US airdropped single shot pistols to resistance members during WWII. Single shot pistols were thought to be useful in a global war with hundreds of millions of people involved.
So all told, the power or efficiency of your weaponry matters far less than you might think. Another way of putting it would be to point out that Germany had the best tanks in WWII, but routinely faced losses due to their inability to maneuver them effectively. In the real world, power isn't everything.
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They account for nothing this day and age, where you don't even know that you've already been killed by the man in a van outside your apartment building.
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Sure sounds to me like the man in that van was using some guerrilla tactics to me.
Poisons, assassinations, equipment appropriation, hit and runs, most explosives not dropped from a plane or shot from a super expensive piece of artillery, pretending not to be a combatant, etc, all counts towards guerrilla tactics.
Lets not forget that the US and Russian militaries, two of the three strongest in the world, have repeatedly been beaten by inferior enemy forces employing such tactics, even on foreign soil where the conventional forces have more wiggle room.
I know you have heard of the Green Berets before as almost everyone the world over has. (America has a very famous military all around.) Did you they exist primarily to teach others how to effectively wage guerrilla warfare? Their secondary purpose is to wage that same type of warfare until their training is done and the otherwise civilian force can replace them.
In fact among some members of certain circles the Green Berets are held to be the most honorable of US forces with rumors stating they have been directly charged with aiding any popular anti-government revolutions here in the states.