OFF: Founding dad dudes, and guns

Sat Sep 1 07:33:37 EDT 2007

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!

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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