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**Cnbaapuy** · 08-08-2010, 02:11 PM

This is how terrorist warfare is - they look for the easy targets and attack those.

And this accomplishes what, exactly? The idea of guerilla warfare is that you pick away at the enemy's forces until you can fight them openly. Attacks on civilians don't accomplish much.

If all your operations, in particular non-partisan Aid, require escorts then you have lost - that is why I put that in, not because it was a difficult target.

That's like saying that because all Allied ships needed convoys, they lost the Battle of the Atlantic. Secondly, the target the Taliban hit wasn't worth protecting from a military standpoint. They gained nothing from this massacre.

Homebased terrorist conflict cannot be won by conventional means - show me an example where that is not the case. T

The vast majority of guerilla campaigns lose. This is why they are known as underdogs. If guerilla warfare was superior to conventional warfare, no one would waste time building armies.

08-08-2010, 02:11 PM	#25
Cnbaapuy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	This is how terrorist warfare is - they look for the easy targets and attack those. And this accomplishes what, exactly? The idea of guerilla warfare is that you pick away at the enemy's forces until you can fight them openly. Attacks on civilians don't accomplish much. If all your operations, in particular non-partisan Aid, require escorts then you have lost - that is why I put that in, not because it was a difficult target. That's like saying that because all Allied ships needed convoys, they lost the Battle of the Atlantic. Secondly, the target the Taliban hit wasn't worth protecting from a military standpoint. They gained nothing from this massacre. Homebased terrorist conflict cannot be won by conventional means - show me an example where that is not the case. T The vast majority of guerilla campaigns lose. This is why they are known as underdogs. If guerilla warfare was superior to conventional warfare, no one would waste time building armies.
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