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- From: fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou)
- Subject: Re: No Army Needed(
- Message-ID: <C02w5I.GKz@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <BzzD2L.111@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:24:54 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou)
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- The following are "musts" for successful guerillar war:
- 1. Support, and willingness to sacrifice, of the population
- 2. Unwillingness on the occupier's part to "decimate" the whole population
- 3. Safe asylum, like N. Vietnam, or huge territory, like Russia
- 4. Foreign support (optional)
- 5. Others (i may have left out something here, feel free to add)
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- The first is absoluteily a must. Gevala's (sp?) failure is he didn't get the
- support of the locals.
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- The second is also essential. It is hard to imagine any Jewish resistence
- alone would eventually result in the Nazi's retreat from a (hypothetical)
- Jewish state.
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- The third is important but you probably can think of an exception or two.
- With the size of a country like China or Russia, no invader can effectively
- control the whole country and population. THe sheer size alone is lots of
- protection for the guerilla. THe advantage of a safe haven is also obvious.
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- Foreign aids are important but not essential. Mujahadin (sp?) fought Soviets
- for many years before Stingers came to the help. ANd it was not the Stingers
- that won the war, lets not forget.
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- According to this short list, it's not difficult to see why VC and mujahadin
- won their war. On the French resistence, I am not too sure because the
- answer to the first two points are not so clear cut.
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- Just my 2 cents.
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