It's the Tribes (merged thread)

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Interesting, but any close reading of the Army's operations on our own frontier would have pointed out the importance of understanding tribal organization and interior politics. Sad how we always have to reinvent the understanding wheel every few years....

Absolutely, on another thread we were talking about the Revolutionary War and Indians. George Washington was a land surveyor by trade and he had numerous contacts and knowledge of the Indian tribes that certainly were of benefit during our own Insurgency. But we seem to have forgotten that as Steve points out.