I'd disagree. There is a basic asymmetry in colonial situations. The colonists are small in number and high visibility but the natives are huge in number and it is very hard to pick out insurgents from the rest of the population. Given that set up, advances in bomb technology seem to give a relative advantage to insurgents.
> >- mature anti-colonial propaganda programs such as nationalism and > >communism. > >- use of automatic weapons, high explosives and related tactics > >- use of news media to conduct information and psychological warfare. ... > >- use of modern communications technologies (print, radio, Internet, > >satellite TV, etc.) for financing, recruitment and coordination. > > None of these have obviously improved the abilities of insurgency > *relative* to anti-insurgency, as far as I can see. Both sides have > better weapons, propaganda, and communications. > Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hanson.gmu.edu
