Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject: Value and so on....
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:30:28 -0400
At 20.02 07-16-99 +0100, you wrote:
>That hasn't worked in a _long_ time: AFVs are designed to survive napalm
>attacks and flamethrowers, much less molotovs (button up and floor it to

In combat, you are right. However, a guerilla (nor a Shoadwrunner) should
play with AFVs in a stand up fight. Giving them the gas while the hatches
are open, on the other hand.....

>Guerilla warfare only really works with outside support. The guerillas can
>harass, buy time, weaken an enemy and sap his will: but guerillas don't
>win military victories.

Without outside support, they don't. But political victories count too.
Look at the Contras. Even though they had our backing, it was fairly
minor. However, they were able to win a political victory. Same thing
goes for the IRA- once Sein Fein was let into Parlement, that insurgency
was pretty much over, unless the Brits decide to through SF out. (The joys
of living as a subject.)


CyberRaven
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"Briar Rabbit to Briar Fox; I was BORN in that briar patch!"

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.