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If anyone is interested in accounts of smaller guerrilla like forces ending up victorious over much stronger/larger armies. The best modern and most recent exa
by wara23arish 5y ago
If anyone is interested in accounts of smaller guerrilla like forces ending up victorious over much stronger/larger armies.
The best modern and most recent example is the Hezbollah Israeli war in 2006 in Lebanon.
This is a US review of why hezbollah succeeded in its goals against israel and how they were able to do so.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/we-were-caught-unprepared.pdf https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-ins...
I haven’t finished reading it yet but its very interesting. For example, they had hundreds of autonomous cells working with no single point of failure.
“Nearly 600 separate ammunition and weapons bunkers were strategically placed in the region south of the Litani. For security reasons, no single commander knew the location of each bunker and each distinct Hezbollah militia unit was assigned access to three bunkers only—a primary munitions bunker and two reserve bunkers, in case the primary bunker was destroyed.”
It also mentions they were taught and learned from North Korean war and Iran obviously.
This is not to glorify them, but if you read the review you can obviously see that what they achieved demands respect. As in respect for your adversaries strength.
- ed_balls 5y agoUA forces have a very similar strategy. They are heavily decentralised. Which has a surprising side effect, apart from mentioned. Because enemy's command is decentralised it takes them up to 4 days to cease fire. It's better to start the negotiation sooner. What is interesting about Hezbollah is that they use civilian drones. I haven't seen any reports of using civilians drones in this conflict. Army should buy thousands of civilian drones and just attached hand grenades. You can wreak a lot of chaos in the night. Antonov airport is a good target. Another idea is to use cars in self-driving capabilities as bombs.
- wara23arish 5y agoYes back in 2006 i don’t believe they had drone capabilities. Im surprised there hasn’t been more news of drone usage similar to the Armenian Azerbajian war.
- ed_balls 5y agoI should say "use civilian drones NOW" not in 2006. > Im surprised there hasn’t been more news of drone usage similar to the Armenian Azerbajian war. There was but no idea if this is reliable footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTk4tasLvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTk4tasLvE https://9gag.com/gag/a8173Le https://9gag.com/gag/a8173Le
- Mirioron 5y agoI'm surprised by how little small (civilian) drones are used in general. Simply having the ability to see much further than your troops are at seems like it would be very useful. Perhaps batteries are a problem?