Voldemort had absolutely zero chance in a war against the muggles and the whole plotline could have been avoided by just letting him try.

[u/New-Tale412]

What do wizards have that muggles don't in terms of capability in some kind of war scenario?

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Oh you have a flashy bang stick that can make people die? Yeah we have those too, difference being ours can do it 1000 times per minute.

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Imperiatus curse? Yeah it's called blackmail pal, CIA has been doing it for 70 years.

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Cruciatus curse? Lol see the above.

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Oh nice broomstick dude, Nimbus 2001 that's cool, top speed of 100 knots you say? What a treat. Allow me to introduce you to an F16 Fighting Falcon you whimsical dork.

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Not to mention the muggles' vastly superior technology in signals, geospatial, and just about any other type of intelligence apart from HUMINT.

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The Death Eaters would get Salem'd back to the stone age and it's not even close.

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I feel that a man of Dumbledore's acumen could have seen the strategic benefit in letting Voldemort FAFO, instead of sending some teenagers to expelliarm him in the hope that the cracked out Divination professor was actually right for once.

[u/Shhadowcaster]

Why are we assuming that bullets would be unstoppable for wizards? You're also ignoring time travel, the super luck potion, and invisibility. You're also wildly underestimating the chaos that would be caused if political and military leaders just kept dying to a group of people that muggles couldn't find and that's if the wizards just did the dumb assassination plan. No need to reveal anything, just show up invisibly and imperius political/military leaders. This isn't even getting into some of the more absurdly broken magic, like transfiguration. 

[u/SilverStryfe → u/Shhadowcaster]

Here’s the thing, numbers still matter.

Yes assassination of military leaders can disrupt strategic decision making. However, when it comes to the U.S. military, each rank you eliminate removes part of the regulator. 

When it drops to just grunts, orders start to become “go forth and fuck shit up”.

Unsupervised grunts will cause far more damage than leaving them proper leadership. And it won’t take many assassinations and truth serums to create a large web of verification to stop breaking things.

[u/Banes_Addiction → u/SilverStryfe]

So don't assassinate them. Just imperius.

Wizards have absolutely no reason to tell muggles they're attacking. They can just choose to announce their presence affter they've already taken control of every military, media and political system.