Well, it so happens that while just the other day US Military "leaders" (small "l") in Marja(Afghanistan) said that this would be over in 2 or 3 days as the "insurgent"(partisans?) would run out of food and water, in the mountains, our poor soldiers are now starting to take sniper fire from distances of 700 yards plus...
Why, they were supposed to be running out of food and water?...and we captured most of their leaders? How could they rebuild their units so rapidly?
How could they be so resilient?
The guerrilla warfare is on!... and this, I sadly suspect is only the beginning. Had the lessons of history been imparted, our poor troops should have, at the very least learned what General Maxwell Taylor learned and reported in 1964:
"The ability of the Viet-Cong continuously to rebuild their units and make good on their losses is one of the mysteries of the guerrilla war...Not only do they have the recuperative powers of the phoenix, but they have an amazing ability to maintain morale"...
Ciao Bella Ciao!
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