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You're missing the point. Guerillas don't win wars, at best they ensure that no one wins.

• kls 17y ago
  Tell that to Castro or Nguyen Huu Tho or Washington all of which won their struggles via guerrilla warfare. Note: I am not advocating the use of insurgency as a means of resolving political dispute, just pointing out that it does in fact win against superior numbers, resources and technology. To claim it does not ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary.
  • philwelch 17y ago
    Washington won his struggles with conventional warfare combined with a shitton of direct military intervention from France. The role of guerrilla warfare in the American Revolution is popularly overstated.
    • kls 17y ago
      If we are talking about Washington directly then yes he won his battle via conventional warfare but when we talk about the war that he symbolizes as the leader, there is little denying that guerrilla warfare is what disheartened the British troops and emboldened the militias and locals. The following article highlights how important small skirmishes and hit and run tactics where to the revolutionary war. http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1489 http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1489