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To: Road Walker who wrote (233943)	5/20/2005 10:01:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575047

It isn't an offense. When there have been offenses by the enemy They usually have been sustained for no more than minutes maybe occasionally a few hours. When there has been combat that lasted longer than that the enemy has been defending not attacking. Guerilla warfare by its very nature is one where you normally don't have a sustained offensive. The guerillas know they lack the power to sustain offensive operations so they make hit and run attacks. Notice that term, hit and run, when you are running or hiding you are not sustaining offensive operations. What you are doing is maintaining your forces so you can strike again when conditions favor an attack. A sustained offensive against American soldiers would either mean that we were being forcefully pushed out of areas that we had been in firm control over, or that we were desperately trying to hold on to some territory against the power of the enemy. If we are hunting them down and they set off a IED or set up a small ambush they are not taking part in an offensive operation. If they had been able to mount an sustained offensive we would not be fighting an insurgency but rather fighting a fairly conventional war and, since the offensive would now be going on for years, probably losing a conventional war. Its bad enough that you are so ignorant of basic military terms, but than on top of that you get arrogant about your supposed relatively superior knowledge. You want me to look in the dictionary, while you are calling defensive battles and hit and run raids a sustained offense. Next thing I suppose I'll be accused of a childish focus on anal retentive minutia when I argue that black isn't white, or that the sun rises in the east not the west. Defense is offense, up is down, in is out, just ask John... Tim