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Your friend hasn't seen the tiger close enough to notice what it's made of. You should, when relevant, draw attention to it with historical and contemporary examples.
In fact, military logistical analysis is a pretty good way to introduce people to thinking materially. The line many people use is "I'm sure your AR15 will do a lot of good against a tank." But let's game that out. What does a tank need to exist in the field? It needs fuel, it needs to be mobile, the crew need to eat and sleep, they need to get out sometimes to piss or at least to empty the piss bottles, they need communications, they need infantry protection because otherwise the Abrams is so loud you could literally sneak up on it with a parade, and all of a sudden you're mapping out a web of logistical choke points.
When you look at each individual part of an opposing force not just in terms of what it can do but also what it needs to survive, what first looked like an impenetrable interlocking wall becomes a rough cloth that someone could begin unraveling by pulling any one of many different threads. As the situation and your analysis both progress, an ideal order of operations might even present itself.
I bring a 'kill the empire by playing youtube poops on a network of 27 bluetooth speakers set up around the sleeping quarters of the military occupying an urban center' energy that the libs really don't like
This is very very sound reasoning and I am committing this entire comment to memory as I wish I could have pulled this info out so succinctly in so many conversations with some of the more radical comrades in my community.
That's why military forces regularly get their ass handed to them by guerilla warfare. Although drones have changed things.
The advent of cheap, constant and replicable air surveilance does make me think about the resistance's use of tunnels in Palestine. I wonder what role sewer and storm drain systems would play in a US urban environment
I like this perspective the most! A lot of people CAN think about these things more critically and in-depth, the main thing is in letting people feel like they've figured it out on their own. The good ol' Socratic method of teaching! :) Applies to inspiring people to action just as much as it does learning a song or algebra!