[OT?] Indigenous insurgencies

Oh boy, here we go again.  We're back to the topic of insurgencies. 
John,
you've never answered my question as to what kind of foreign support
Kerensky and Sun Yat-sen got...

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Even the engineers are not *this* depraved.  This must be the work of
the
Med. students.

						- A friend of mine

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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, John Atkinson wrote:

> That's one counter-example.  There aren't any others.  One exception
in 
> history.  And as I've put it in the past, in military history we can 
> find examples of everything except one side loosing due to meteors 
> flattening the command staff.  Do we want me to start listing
sucessful 
> counter-insurgencies?  I'll even restrict to the past 2 centuries.
> 
> Besides, the stuff I've read about the Eritreans mentioned a
world-wide 
> support network of ex-pat Eritreans who funnelled money back home and 
> more importantly, got education and training on the outside then took 
> their skills back home.
> 
> Plus the Ethiopian were. . . what's a polite way to put it, less than 
> stellarly competent?	Assuming a military organization that can find 
> it's arse with a flashlight and both hands the situation looks a bit 
> different.
> 
> And last but not least, let's not forget the rather substantial 
> Ethiopian contribution--the Ethiopians were stuck trying to put down
an 
> insurgency in their own country and occupy Eritrea.
> 
> John M. Atkinson
>