Why do so many superpowers get defeated by guerrilla warfare?

>french resistance
lol

The point of guerilla warfare is to make a war not worth it for the stronger opponent. While there is no doubt that USA could have turned Vietnam into a scorched wasteland and soviet union could have made the wastelands of Afghanistan slightly more scorched than they already are, there was little to gain by doing so. In a sense it only works against stronger powers, because they are strong enough to admit defeat in a minor non-crucial conflict and pull out to cut losses.

>>72923698
???
you realise you only heard about the ones that succeed?

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>french resistance

Good question indeed.

Though, we can't generalize all guerilla wars and judge like they're identical - it's important to analyze every particular event separately.
Guerilla troops usually have a strong willingness to fight for their country/religious, therefore they don't care about conditions of the war or sometimes even methods (jihadists or violent vietkongs).

It's the mindset that's important - Afghanistan and Vietnam were similar because regular citizens that just finished their schools were forced to fight in a bloody bath against peasants that were strongly determined to win.

>>72923698
Apologize to France right now.

>>72926781
>Apologize
yankee?

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>french resistance

No one was "defeated", they just couldn't be fucked to waste any more money and lives on killing dirty primitives.

>>72923698
UK wasn't a superpower during the American Revolutionary War

US won the vietnam war

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>>72927268
>UK wasn't a superpower during the American Revolutionary War


Pls Froggo just Surrender and be part of the glourious

>french resistance

and wait till the Anglosphere saves your ass the 3rd time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire

>>72926941
Precipitating the material conditions necessary for your opponent to abandon their strategic interests is, in fact, a manner of defeat.

>>72927334
this is actually true
then they pussed out at the last minute and let the south get 'conged hard
>>72927777
can't argue with digits

>>72927895
pretty much

US crushed the north, and promised south support if north would have another go, but the US broke their promise and north crushed south