> Your idea of a militia standing up to a government is essentially historical cosplay.
I'm not saying it is going to happen, I'm only saying it can happen with an armed population, and cannot happen without an rmed population.
"Political will" is something that happens in populations, not a leadership class. The US chose to end a war of attrition because they lost. Plain and simple.
In the event of some domestic problem going that far there would be basically no political will to continue military action, and if the government continued without that it would quickly be viewed as illegitimate, lead to instability and a larger uprising.
I'm not saying it is going to happen, I'm only saying it can happen with an armed population, and cannot happen without an rmed population.
"Political will" is something that happens in populations, not a leadership class. The US chose to end a war of attrition because they lost. Plain and simple.
In the event of some domestic problem going that far there would be basically no political will to continue military action, and if the government continued without that it would quickly be viewed as illegitimate, lead to instability and a larger uprising.