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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
And "winning" against a guerilla insurgency is accomplished just how exactly? Can you point to any example in the last, oh, 500 years?
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Both Boer Wars were essentially guerilla wars that were successfully suppressed.
The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) saw the government successfully put down a Communist insurgency.
The Tupamaros in Uruguay were successfully suppressed in '70s by the government (which then fell to the military in a coup).
Though the Phillipines presented a long series of different insurgencies a Muslim insurgency in 1911 was successfully stopped.
The original Irish Republican Army was successfully defeated in the 1930s. (this was a political organization essentially separate from the modern IRA which falsely claims continuity with the anti-Treaty branch of the original IRA.)