Whose strategy is it anyway?

[TROUFION]

When I read Fischer's book Washington's Crossing I was struck by the similiar if not near "prequel" or "presaged" strategies put forward by both sides in the Revolutionary War to today's COIN strategies. I put out this question to see if kept in general strat-op terms what others in SWC thought. Some key points of interest, the war was long (8 years) 1775-1783. It was a near-run thing, becoming truly effective (for the US) only after the Brits became involved in a worldwide war that drained their resources, preventing them from focusing on America.

-Thanks Troufion

[tequila]

Troufion - Nice example. I'd argue, however, that you skipped on the colonials' insistence on forming a regular army fighting in conventional formations instead of using purely insurgent tactics, which made things a bit different from your normal insurgency even of the time. Other than that, I too was struck by the commonality of theme when reading the same book.