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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
I never had a problem buying it -- the bigger suspension of disbelief for me was that similar munities and disintegrations did not happen more frequently, especially CONUS and other places where troop densities relative to starving and desperate civilian populations were so extremely low.
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HS,
I would agree, but I think odds of are far less important than the arms and organisation of the opposition. That is, being starving and desperate does little to make a population an effective force in taking on military units, even if the odds are 100 or 1000-1. We're familiar with police lines getting broken and riot police being overwhelmed, but those are police and not soldiers with a completely different mindset, rules of engagement, tactical doctrine and even mindset.
Tony