Re:Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinfor...
by thatwasunusual on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:33AM
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To add to that:
Both the US and the Soviets lost because Afghanistan isn't a country in a traditional sense; it's just an area of land with _lots_ of regions countrolled by war lords that doesn't have allegiance to anything central (i.e. "the country Afghanistan").
It's impossible to win a war against something like that, unless - as you correctly points out - you obliterate everything.
Both the US and the Soviets lost because Afghanistan isn't a country in a traditional sense; it's just an area of land with _lots_ of regions countrolled by war lords that doesn't have allegiance to anything central (i.e. "the country Afghanistan").
It's impossible to win a war against something like that, unless - as you correctly points out - you obliterate everything.