Students of History, SU and others

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by creekster

This sort of makes my original point (and yes, I did have one) that the absolute nature of the premise ("committed guerrilla armies always win") is accurate only becasue of the definition used. Of course, we exclude the basques and the kurds becasue they don't fit and so forth.

I am not sure why I wanted to make this point, but there you have it.

Btw, I think Saddam did attempt to assert imperial control over the kurds and the Kurds are not the minority in significant parts of northern Iraq. Do you disagree with those statements?

Super. You and Hoya have just given me hope we might win the Iraq war.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Super. You and Hoya have just given me hope we might win the Iraq war.

Don't get too excited just yet... The only times I am aware of where guerilla warfare eventually failed was where the opposing force used tremendous brutality in crushing the guerillas. The US won't use that kind of force (which isn't a bad thing), so it must find another way to win (even though no other way has proven successful so far).

For me, the only other way to win is through propaganda. I posted on this topic a while back.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Super. You and Hoya have just given me hope we might win the Iraq war.

Glad to be of assistance. Spreading sunshine and hope is my primary goal here.