Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

["John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:49 AM, K.H.Ranitzsch
<kh.ranitzsch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  >>Seriously, let me know when you come up with a circumstance where
>  >>untrained militias managed to inflict a loss on an able enemy.
>
>  The Warsaw Ghetto 18 January 1943 - to 23.April 1943 and the Warsaw
>  Rising, 1.August 1944 to 2 October certainly qualify on the militia
>  side, though most of the German troops were not top-notch forces and the
>  irregulars lost in the end. But it took several months to subdue them in
>  severe urban fighting.

Able enemy does NOT equal police and thugs led by an incompetent.

And a "moral victory" of losing more slowly than expected doesn't
really fit the intent of the original statement either.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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