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**PRengine** · 08-08-2010, 07:24 PM

Examples of indigenous fighters overcoming an occupational force,
Scots v Romans. (Hadrians wall)
French resistance v Germans
Eritrea v Ethiopia
Afghanistan v English
Afghanistan v Russia
Afghanistan v America

With terrorist warfare - enemy melting and disappearing is just what happens when countries are invaded and occupied by a vastly superior military power. It is often portrayed , falsely imo , that such tactics are cowardly. I think they are the tactics used by almost everyone who has found themselves in that position........... we applaud it when this resistance to occupation is against one of the current national enemies..........as it was with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan or the German invasion of France............but we despise it when it is ourselves who are occupiers. Brave fighters of occupation morph into faceless cowards hiding behind the rest......................few mentions that the people themselves neither support their own occupation nor disagree with the tactics used by those who are actively fighting the occupiers with a view to oust them.

08-08-2010, 07:24 PM	#35
PRengine Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 409 Senior Member	Examples of indigenous fighters overcoming an occupational force, Scots v Romans. (Hadrians wall) French resistance v Germans Eritrea v Ethiopia Afghanistan v English Afghanistan v Russia Afghanistan v America With terrorist warfare - enemy melting and disappearing is just what happens when countries are invaded and occupied by a vastly superior military power. It is often portrayed , falsely imo , that such tactics are cowardly. I think they are the tactics used by almost everyone who has found themselves in that position........... we applaud it when this resistance to occupation is against one of the current national enemies..........as it was with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan or the German invasion of France............but we despise it when it is ourselves who are occupiers. Brave fighters of occupation morph into faceless cowards hiding behind the rest......................few mentions that the people themselves neither support their own occupation nor disagree with the tactics used by those who are actively fighting the occupiers with a view to oust them.
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