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is there any further explanation of this? it strikes me that narrow chokepoints would be more advantageous to the numerically inferior but better-equipped/train
by leetcrew 6y ago
is there any further explanation of this? it strikes me that narrow chokepoints would be more advantageous to the numerically inferior but better-equipped/trained force.
- bobthepanda 6y agomore advantageous to the numerically inferior who know the lay of the land, because it's much easier to conduct urban guerilla warfare in such instances. Armies during this period were all still about marching in formation, which doesn't work well in confined spaces where you can't really keep a formation.
- throw_away 6y agoIt was also in the context of a long history of barricades being put up by popular uprisings and stymying and trapping troop formations.
- leetcrew 6y agoI guess I'm thinking too much in terms of modern times, where police are mostly aiming to contain a larger crowd. didn't consider that demonstrators might actually intend to trap security forces.
- CydeWeys 6y agoYou're thinking about modern protests that are relatively peaceful and in which deaths are rare. The Paris riots looked a lot more like outright urban guerrilla warfare with lots of deaths, in a manner that is more similar to actual declared wars here in the US (e.g. the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War), not mere urban unrest.
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