[lbo-talk] Iraq: Guerrillas Fielding 200,000 Men?

[Doug Henwood]

Dwayne Monroe wrote:


>Iraq battling more than 200,000 insurgents

Isn't there some sort of rule of thumb that you need a military force 
ten times the size of a guerilla insurgency to defeat it? That leaves 
the U.S. about 1.85 million short.

Doug