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Saturday, September 21, 2002
War and PeaceTolstoy has a famous chapter about guerilla warfare that's kind of disturbing to read now, mainly because of one little observation set in parentheses and nearly buried in the mass of his novel. He gives three examples of great armies defeated by disorganized bands of true-believing soldiers: "the guerillas in Spain, the mountain tribes in the Caucasus, and the Russians in 1812," who ran Napoleon back to France. You could add: The American colonists, and the Afghan mujahideen.
But what's so disturbing? This: "Guerilla war (always successful, as history shows) ..."
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
12:20 AM
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