34. You can't really control a population except through their stomach
Look at any war. Look at Iraq. Force can't do it.
In the history of warfare the bar-none best way to subdue a people was to cut off the food supply.
Weapons you can improvise, a soldier's loss of limbs can be acommodated, but the 3 things you cannot literally live without: air, food and water will bring any force to it's knees.
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