i just want to drop in here and say this: in a fight for survival, there's no reason to fight fair. ambushes and bushwhacking. less ammo and less casualties for your side.
Even if you clear out whatever you hit, it's never a 1 group vs 1 group situation - because there are dozens of other small units all hearing what just went down. A group just down the street, some group sleeping in a building two blocks down, some dudes driving along on the road just over there, and a group camping the field you set up adjacent to.
And suddenly one or more of them look into what just went down, see you, and engage. So here you are finishing your textbook ambush where your perfect tactics cost you only 3 or 4 rounds per person... suddenly dumping mags to secure yourself the ability to maneuver into or out of, anywhere other than where you are right now.
You and a couple buddies just won't get to unload on six guys in black, or with blue helmets, walking down a street, high five after they stop moving, then saunter down to the pub to celebrate. If things really pop off, that scenario will exist for a week at most, and then you have months of wishing you'd have paid $5 a round with your covid check, let alone the measly <.75c a round you can find out there now.
Even the best ambushes are going to be paid with an upfront ammo cost to secure access to the areas you'll want to ambush from. And you'll be paying cost in ammo to deny the routes of entry to primo ambush spots of your opposition. 10x-100x rounds are paid upfront to purchase the opportunity to later spend a handful of rounds in your ambush. -- You scout out a nice area along a road you think the opposition travels, but eventually you will end up making contact, and needing to break contact at some point. You will need to take and hold, or flush away, and set up points of denial lest the ambush you set up be scouted and revealed as they inevitably run up on make and then break contact on you. That all costs ammo.
100 guys with 300 rounds on them and 3,000 rounds back at home will wipe the floor against 1,000 guys with 30 rounds each to their name. You can hide and hope for a good shot, but you'll never push, take, or hold territory. Which means I have the water, I have the port, or the road into and out of. I have the super market locked down, and every humanitarian drop belongs to me. You have the gas you can syphon out of parked cars well out of sight of all my positions, and I have the gas station. Everywhere you want to go I've pushed, taken, and hold an overwatch over using volume of fire. So anyone who wants to get anywhere to hide and snipe me from must pay an ammo cost you can't sustain to enter that field.
Every time one of you fire one round, they'll end up firing off the other 29 failing to get away. And for every one who makes it somewhere worth shooting from, you'll lose 9 and their mag of ammo as they run afoul of my own ambushes where my guys are happy slinging 100 rounds a piece their way without blinking. You will never strip ammo off any of our corpses because you lack the ammo to pay the action cost of pushing onto the one corpse as his four buddies lay down terrifying amounts of cover.
You aren't the insurgent in Iraq. You are the insurgent facing off against the other insurgent. You're in a Civil War. You will take lives, so will I, but you'll run out of ammo before I run out of men, at which point all your remaining forces ditch their gear and mix back into the general population as I now move around entirely unhindered -- you will find that the number of your original 1,000 brave enough to walk out with six rounds in their one mag, knowing that they are dead 30 minutes after they fire their first shot, is zero -- because you lost the bravest of your 1,000 early on.
The only thing more important than ammo is food and water. And even that is debatable because food and water can be acquired after the fact. Barring foreign intervention or living within 100 miles of an ammo plant that still has it's supply chain intact, whatever you start with, is all you'll have. Your ammo count is your action count.
Actions are paid in bullets, and the totality of what you will achieve in a civil war is paid in advance as the count of ammo you stocked before hand.
The needs of position mean that you can not attrite manpower faster than an opposing force can attrite your ammo supply. Canada won't be air dropping you 5.56. China won't, Russia won't, Britain won't. What you start with is what you have.
TLDR: BUY AMMO, BUY ALL OF IT. DRIVE THE PRICES SO HIGH THAT LEFTISTS BUY NONE OF IT
And if things go south, set the pace and intensity of ammo use such that you attrite their supply in conflict before any foreign nation can resupply them. Push everything, spend ammo like it's water, hunt everything that takes even a pot shot, force them to spend everything they have, make them spend ammo walking out the door, taking a shit, crossing a road that doesn't matter. Then win everything when they have nothing left.
i just want to drop in here and say this: in a fight for survival, there's no reason to fight fair. ambushes and bushwhacking. less ammo and less casualties for your side.
Ambushes don't stay ambushes.
Even if you clear out whatever you hit, it's never a 1 group vs 1 group situation - because there are dozens of other small units all hearing what just went down. A group just down the street, some group sleeping in a building two blocks down, some dudes driving along on the road just over there, and a group camping the field you set up adjacent to.
And suddenly one or more of them look into what just went down, see you, and engage. So here you are finishing your textbook ambush where your perfect tactics cost you only 3 or 4 rounds per person... suddenly dumping mags to secure yourself the ability to maneuver into or out of, anywhere other than where you are right now.
You and a couple buddies just won't get to unload on six guys in black, or with blue helmets, walking down a street, high five after they stop moving, then saunter down to the pub to celebrate. If things really pop off, that scenario will exist for a week at most, and then you have months of wishing you'd have paid $5 a round with your covid check, let alone the measly <.75c a round you can find out there now.
Even the best ambushes are going to be paid with an upfront ammo cost to secure access to the areas you'll want to ambush from. And you'll be paying cost in ammo to deny the routes of entry to primo ambush spots of your opposition. 10x-100x rounds are paid upfront to purchase the opportunity to later spend a handful of rounds in your ambush. -- You scout out a nice area along a road you think the opposition travels, but eventually you will end up making contact, and needing to break contact at some point. You will need to take and hold, or flush away, and set up points of denial lest the ambush you set up be scouted and revealed as they inevitably run up on make and then break contact on you. That all costs ammo.
100 guys with 300 rounds on them and 3,000 rounds back at home will wipe the floor against 1,000 guys with 30 rounds each to their name. You can hide and hope for a good shot, but you'll never push, take, or hold territory. Which means I have the water, I have the port, or the road into and out of. I have the super market locked down, and every humanitarian drop belongs to me. You have the gas you can syphon out of parked cars well out of sight of all my positions, and I have the gas station. Everywhere you want to go I've pushed, taken, and hold an overwatch over using volume of fire. So anyone who wants to get anywhere to hide and snipe me from must pay an ammo cost you can't sustain to enter that field.
Every time one of you fire one round, they'll end up firing off the other 29 failing to get away. And for every one who makes it somewhere worth shooting from, you'll lose 9 and their mag of ammo as they run afoul of my own ambushes where my guys are happy slinging 100 rounds a piece their way without blinking. You will never strip ammo off any of our corpses because you lack the ammo to pay the action cost of pushing onto the one corpse as his four buddies lay down terrifying amounts of cover.
You aren't the insurgent in Iraq. You are the insurgent facing off against the other insurgent. You're in a Civil War. You will take lives, so will I, but you'll run out of ammo before I run out of men, at which point all your remaining forces ditch their gear and mix back into the general population as I now move around entirely unhindered -- you will find that the number of your original 1,000 brave enough to walk out with six rounds in their one mag, knowing that they are dead 30 minutes after they fire their first shot, is zero -- because you lost the bravest of your 1,000 early on.
The only thing more important than ammo is food and water. And even that is debatable because food and water can be acquired after the fact. Barring foreign intervention or living within 100 miles of an ammo plant that still has it's supply chain intact, whatever you start with, is all you'll have. Your ammo count is your action count.
Actions are paid in bullets, and the totality of what you will achieve in a civil war is paid in advance as the count of ammo you stocked before hand.
The needs of position mean that you can not attrite manpower faster than an opposing force can attrite your ammo supply. Canada won't be air dropping you 5.56. China won't, Russia won't, Britain won't. What you start with is what you have.
TLDR: BUY AMMO, BUY ALL OF IT. DRIVE THE PRICES SO HIGH THAT LEFTISTS BUY NONE OF IT
And if things go south, set the pace and intensity of ammo use such that you attrite their supply in conflict before any foreign nation can resupply them. Push everything, spend ammo like it's water, hunt everything that takes even a pot shot, force them to spend everything they have, make them spend ammo walking out the door, taking a shit, crossing a road that doesn't matter. Then win everything when they have nothing left.
Ammo stocks and ammo use wins Civil Wars.