Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?

Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by Chris2048 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:09AM (#25046058)

Was the US trying to tyrannically attack those places? The government had to constantly answer to it's populace for those wars; if it had to answer to no one, things may have been different.

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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by jeffreyrogers on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:07AM (#25047503)

How about Russia in Afghanistan? Surely they had much less accountability and a similar technology gap (yes, I know the US supplied the fighters with some advanced weaponry). Yet, the had the same outcome as the US.

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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by kebman on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:03PM (#25062953)

Here's a short documentary that captures some the post-Soviet dissolution mood of the Russian troops in Afghanistan, following the glasnost.[1]

[1]: Afgan - The Soviet Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfqAHOpGd0g

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