The Viet Cong with armed to the teeth too. It doesn't make them better.. They have one advantage, its not the number of guns, it's their ruthlessness. and lack of compassion for the life of their own famililes. They have no problem hiding amongst civilians to shield them and they always kjnow the people from the other side have to spare human life.
WHered did all these weapons originate? If you notice in the video, a good number of parts were imported from nations that were supporting these people against other regimes. I mean, the Americans have given these people a large cache of weapons to fight Russians. Now ,the Russians and Chinese are probably smuggling in a lot of supplies to hellp them fight the Americans.
Would these guns really have a great effect against a coordinated military attack using air and tanks? I recall the Taliban was pretty well wiped out by American forces. Just because a bunch of fanatics have lot of guns doesn't make them a great army.
It istrue that they are militant and more peaceful countries like India, suffer. But we must remember the Japanese, Hitler and Germany in WWII was more militant, well-trained and armed than the Allied Countries. They had to quickly get their act together and militarize. When they saw their nation was threatened they pulled together to become more powerful and ruthless than their enemy for sake of their own children.
These miltant countries have always survived because they hide amongst civilians. They cling to UN sanctions and media disapproval to win their wars. I have yet to see them win a real face to face combat with a Christian nation who really wants to fight them. Except for the Ottomans, I have not yet seen that in modern history.
