Point taken about Che...Originally Posted by Steve Blair
But I suppose that the illustration is about counterinsurgents, not insurgents...So I retract my suggestion about Giap. Otherwise the illustration would have to include Mao, Sandino, Aguinaldo, OBL, etc.
How about the picture of Che on the morgue slabit was published in a lot of papers back in the day.
Hell, toss in a pic of Prabhakaran on his slab as a bookend to that one.How about the picture of Che on the morgue slab
I don't know...many service members have an affinity for T.E. Lawrence, and he was definitely the insurgent.
failures count too (custer)
another success
Von Steuben
Geronimo
BOS is out Warfightin Function in
my knowledge is too limited to keep up
Lotsa buzzwords of course
PPT
Geronimo was of limited utility, though like Che he's good on t-shirts....
Of the NA leadership, Red Cloud would be a good choice, as would Cochise or Mangas Coloradas. There's also a slew of Eastern tribes who could toss up some significant leaders.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
I guess
Geronimo as a figurehead for an essentially leaderless organization would be good on Tshirts but the decentralized org is the essential part to SWJ crossroads. Starfish
I get that, but Geronimo was actually disliked by many he was supposedly leading and was overall a much less effective leader than Juh, for example. And he doesn't come close to either Cochise or Mangas.
NA tribal groups in general, and the Apache in particular, are better thought of as very loose clan alliances than any sort of decentralized organization (especially during the 1800s).
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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I am definitely not the expert there. I think we agree but are not very agreeable a least I am not lol
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