US Military Failure in Iraq: They Don't Understand Guerrilla Warfare

by max blunt

Of course, the 'surge' is working Of course, the violence is subsiding This is a guerrilla war! “When guerrillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances.” That’s right out of Mao Tse-tung’s classic treatise “On Guerrilla Warfare” “When the invader pierces deep into the heart of the weaker country and occupies her territory in a cruel and oppressive manner, there is no doubt that conditions of terrain, climate, and society in general offer obstacles to his progress and may be used to advantage by those who oppose him In guerrilla warfare we turn these advantages to the purpose of resisting and defeating the enemy" LINK