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John M Atkinson (jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu) wrote:
: %Yeah,. I guess pulling out of Somalia because of partisians didn't matter
: %either did it.  It was all those Somalian tanks!

: Yeah, I guess Somalia was really a war, and the US was intending to take over
: the damn country, right?  

And we were trying to take over Vietnam?  Last time I checked we never
invaded North Vietnam (although it would have solved alot if we had).

: %Oh balderdash, if you cut off the head you don't need a protacted
: %conventional engagement.  If all you needed was simple massing of
: %firepower, then all tactical models would reflect that - and they don't.

: Name a war where that occured.

The Mongols sacking Strang, they went around the other sides army,
destroyed they're supplies (400 miles across a desert no less) - saked
their enemies capital, and starved their enemies to death.

the Mongols were outnumbered and out gunned (Their enemies had Steel the
mongols did not) but they took off the head of their opponents and won.
No massing of firepower against their enemies armies.

And lets not forget the lessons of C4I attacks, precision bombing, and
other methods of war in depth.  War is not linear, war has depth and a
smart tactician understands that if you cut off the head the body will
die.

: %The Indians also over-reacted - perhaps you should review your history
: %again.  There was violence on both sides, granted the British did much
: %more of it, but nonetheless, violence occured on both sides, the British
: %were tossed out - and the insurrection worked.

: By your standards, Martin Luther King was an insurgent.  His movement had a
: violent fringe too.  

But he didn't overthrow an governments, he changed the law.  Ghandi
overthrew the British.  So, no by my recoking that does not make Martin
Luther King an Insurgent.  

Admit it, Ghandi carried out a succesful insurrgent campaign, outsed the
government at the tiem, cut off its head if you will, did NOT mass
firepowers with British, didn't have to fight a war - and it WORKED.  I
think you've made basically all my points on this one.

Let me put it this way, Ghandi didn't have an army and yet he still won.
Amazing what those partisians can do. :-)

M. Shinn