[lbo-talk] Fwd: Liu on the war....

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at sun.com
Sat Apr 5 16:56:49 PST 2003



>>Good article by HC Liu:
>>
>>Joanna
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>>The War That May End The Age Of Superpower
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>> Guerilla resistance will not end even after the Iraqi government is
>> toppled and its army destroyed. Drawing upon
>> British experiences in Malaysia and Rhodesia, the force ratio of
>> army forces to guerilla forces needed for merely
>> containing guerilla resistance, let alone defeating a guerilla
>> force, is about 20 to 1. US estimates of the size of Iraq's
>> guerilla force stands at 100,000 for the time being. This means the
>> US would need a force of 2 million to contain the
>> situation even if it already controls the country.
>>
>>see http://162.42.211.226/article2596.htm for the rest.
>>
>>Joanna
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