In article , "Ash Wyllie"
wrote:

Howard Berkowitz opined

In article , Jack
wrote:

On 2004/01/18 10:05, in article ,
"Damien
R. Sullivan" wrote:


Basically, can a small or lower-tech democracy with non-corrupt
government and
motivated citizenry make invasion too expensive to work?

Possibly not today, but back in 1776....


Exactly. I am _not_ in favor of gun confiscation, but I really can't
accept the idea of the unorganized militia, with sporting weapons,
deterring either regulars or invaders. With a laptop and intimate
knowledge of communications networks, I can be a MUCH nastier deterrent.

But hunters with guns can make invasions more expensive, and give you and
your
laptop time to be effective.


Aren't there some assumptions here about the level of force the invaders
will use? Soviet doctrine, in suppressing the Budapest uprising in 1956,
was "one shot from a building, level the building. Many shots from a
building, level the block." A much more humane force, the 82nd Airborne
in Detroit is 1967, was not seriously inconvenienced by urban shooters.