RE: [OT?] Indigenous insurgencies

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From: Jonathan Jarrard [mailto:jjarrard@ford.com]
Subject: Re: [OT?] Indigenous insurgencies

>Lots of revolutions, coups, and such succeed when a government has
>failed to satisfy 'enough of the right people' (to massively paraphrase
>Machiavelli).	I think the point is that minority-inspired guerilla
>movements have seldom managed to achieve more than banditry without
>outside support.

Yes, but the original discussion isn't about a minority-inspired
geurilla
war. We are talking about a population resisting the occupying forces
(not
unlike France or the Balkans in WWII?). The 'Resistance' movement will
likely include regular forces that have escaped the invaders 'net' and
are
working with the general populace. 

It is difficult to draw parrallels (not impossible just difficult) with
earth history as we've never seen anything on the sort of scale we are
talking about fighting in the late 22ndC. The forces on planet are not
an
independant world; "the NAC planet of Kent is invaded by ESU naval and
army
forces, for the next 12 months the population fights a geurilla style
war
until a joint NAC/NSL flotilla are able to defeat the ESU Garrison
Fleet. In
a co-ordinated effort the ESU ground forces are swiftly forced into
submission". So the external support you are talking about may need to
be
redifined. Does an onplanet NAC resistance movement receiving
information
from an offplanet NAC intelligence agency count as external support?

And please don't forget that Geurilla Warfare is NOT necessarily
Insurgency
Warfare - have a look at the definitions. Geurilla Warfare is just a
method
of fighting the enemy. Historically proven as a very effective method
for a
numerically inferior force to fight.

Owen G