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    Default Classic support for partisans

    The Peninsula campaign is a classic example of Great Power support to partisans in a secodary theater of war. In this respect, it is not dissimilar to the anti-Japanese guerrillas in the Philippines supported by the US.Another example is the partisans in Yugoslavia supported by the UK, US, and USSR or the maquis in France before D-Day. In any event, if Great Powers are involved on opposite sides, the case is much more complex than a simple insurgency with carefully limited support from one Great Power or another. It is for this reason that I noted that someone else might break out the winners and losers among the Western Power supporters/participants differently than I did among out 43 cases.

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    John, Tom Odom posted this paper on compound warfare awhile back and it has a great section on this subject and the theory of compund warfare in general.
    http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/downlo...nd_warfare.pdf

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    Default Huber book

    Thanks Slapout. Tom Huber is an old friend from Leavenworth days but I didn't know about that book.

    To Tom Odom: thanks for the other cases.

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    Default Huber, Lewis, Yates

    Quote Originally Posted by John T. Fishel View Post
    Thanks Slapout. Tom Huber is an old friend from Leavenworth days but I didn't know about that book.

    To Tom Odom: thanks for the other cases.
    John,

    Welcome. Tom Huber, Sam Lewis, Spike Yates, and I used to do pizza and movie on Sundays at Leavenworth in the mid-1980s.

    Best

    Tom

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    Default Yates

    Tom--

    I don't know if you knew that Larry has retired. His book (vol 1) on Panama is due out from CMH.

    John

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    Yep I heard that Spike had hung it up.

    Sam retired 3? years ago (we roomed together for nearly 3 years).

    Huber is one of the handful left.

    Tom

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    Default Small War missing?

    Awhile ago there was a list of small war and insurgencies; it misses out Southern Rhodesia / Zimbabwe 1965-1980; which pitted Rhodesia - with South African and up till 1974 Portugese support -v- Liberation groups, supported by USSR, China, the 'Frontline' black African states and more. We all know who won.

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