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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (223)4/24/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: WTSherman  Read Replies (1) of 368
 
<Your rebuttal suggests unfamiliarity with insurgency and guerrilla warfare strategy. Too bad the Viet Cong didn't buy that crap.<

I am, unfortunately, intimately familiar with both. You are obviously not very familiar with the Vietnam war. The NVA and not the Viet Cong won the war, through a very well orchestrated combination of insurgent/guerilla tactics and more classical military manuvers.

If you read my post carefully, I was talking about the ability of citizens to defend themselves against armed forces. A guerilla force can bother and hinder an armed force, but, it cannot stop it from going where it wants to go. What it can do is make it extremely expensive, bloody and demoralizing to stay there. This is what happened in Vietnam. In the case of Germany, the Germans faced many insurgent/guerilla forces and they had a dramatic impact on the ability of the Germans to operate freely and they tied down huge portions of the German army. But, in no case did they prevent any of the genocide or other atrocities that the Germans committed on their way through.

If you think that citizens with guns can really, effectively resist committed armed forces I suggest you try reading up on the Warsaw uprising by the Polish underground. These were fiercely dedicated people armed with rifles, gasoline bombs and little else. They were slaughtered.

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