Caesar in Gaul is one of the earliest anti-insurgent manuals really.

F vercingetorix

Tfw the romans are balls deep in your territory and you call the other chieftains for help who could completely surround him with superior number but they say "nah"

Hell, I'd be scared to get on Rome's bad side too

Rome's early strategy is kind of like prison you know? You pick a fight with the biggest guy on the Mediterranean then no one wants to mess with you.

idk much about early republic

I mean in terms of them reking carthage over the punic wars

Hannibal did nothing wrong

he was a son of a bitch

Honestly he really didn't.

Gg scipio

He a good boi

tfw you rek a kid so hard it becomes part of your name

seriously, F Carthage

They got fucked so hard

Honestly any civilization that relies on mercenary armies that hard deserves destruction.

Hmm, I see that

Ironically as the romans would learn to their chagrin

Man, I can't wait to visit Rome again.

SPQR scrolled on everything in sight

That's amazing, I'd love to go one day

I'm lucky my parents brought me along to Italy back in the day

Saw Venice, Florence, Rome, Sorrento

It's really something else

I hate American cities now

Yeah, most inner cities are downright depressing nowadays. You know Detroit used to be called the Paris of America?

Which sounds absolutely retarded now

Almost sounds accurate tbh

given the state of Paris nowadays, lol

Yea, Paris is the Detroit of Europe now. 💩

rofl

Too true

Bismark, did nothing wrong? OR cucked the Kaiser a bit too much and lead to junker repression in the traditional power structures of the country?

@Attrition in the desert What do you know about the Congolese war? I was watching some video of it, and the squad tactics seem very undisciplined. I know most of the Europeans were mercenaries from Belgium and England. Do you know anything about the minimum requirements for a contract? It seems like they weren't too picky

From what I understand the European involvement was more of a loose coalition of private MCmercs under some African militia colonel. Kind of like the French foreign legion but with the added baggage of Belgium's history of doing nothing wrong in the congo

Lel

Right, I knew that, it's just that those mercs seemed especially incompetent

Mercenaries are usually a pretty retarded solution anyway

Clearly the best solution to insurrection in central Africa is a few good men in short shorts

That being said, King Leopold had a literal gold mine in the Congo for a while, if I was betting on any African country to rise up with the benefits of colonialism in the 19th century it would have been them or perhaps the ivory coast

I think Jarod Taylor actually talks about it in some interview I've seen