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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (109172)	7/31/2003 9:25:23 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

maybe you've forgotten where "Indian Fighting" was first developed...I would say that we have considerable experience with guerilla warfare. We just keep forgetting the lessons because we've become "civilized" "Indian fighting" bore little resemblance to modern guerilla warfare, which emerged after the close of WW2. The European colonial powers learned this lesson the hard way. Breech-loading rifles and Gatling guns dominated primitive opponents. Now the primitive opponents have modern small arms and explosives, and access to a well-developed body of knowledge and experience in the way in which giants may be toppled. Things will never be the same. America has one great disadvantage in fighting a guerilla war. America is a democracy. That means that no matter how much our politicians rant about staying the course, everybody knows that we will back out if the affair becomes a political liability. They know they can't defeat us, in any military sense. They don't have to. They just have to do enough damage, and hang on long enough, to make the conflict a political liability.