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- From: Norman Yarvin <yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu>
- Subject: Re: Swiss military preparedness??
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:24:58 GMT
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- From Norman Yarvin <yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu>
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- emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >The guerilla doesn't need fuel, because he has no heavy vehicles to
- >slow him down. Nor does he need parts that aren't available on the
- >local economy.
-
- If a guerrilla war were waged in a country with as many cars and trucks as
- the US, and if civilians were allowed to possess vehicles, there would be
- little obstacle to guerrilla use of cars and trucks. And if civilians were
- not allowed to possess vehicles, the economy would be destroyed.
-
- > The
- >guerilla is like the sea, he flows gracefully away from strong forces,
- >but comes back again and again eroding away the enemy's strength in
- >tiny nibbles and bites.
-
- This strategy almost assumes omniscence on the part of the guerrilla. How
- is a guerrilla force to know that a strong enemy force is coming, so that it
- can "flow gracefully away"? By the time he has collided with the enemy
- force, it is too late. Just running away won't work. The invader's forces
- will have far greater mobility, since they can use helicopter transport.
-
- The Vietcong habitually sent a man or two to follow each US detachment and
- report on its position. Indeed at least one of our units made a regular
- practice of ambushing these followers and leaving boobytraps for them.
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- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
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