[lbo-talk] 200,000

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Jan 11 07:02:05 PST 2005



>----- Original Message -----
>From: Leigh Meyers
>To: NEWSROOM-L at LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:24 AM
>Subject: [NEWSROOM-L] 200,000
>
>I think there is some rule of warfare which implies that for every
>guerilla, it requires 10 conventional soldiers to countervail. (That
>includes logistics & support personnel, etc.)

"The British had held a twenty-to-one advantage in police and troops against a guerrilla force that never numbered more than 10,000, including its civilian support apparatus, a fraction of the Viet Cong armed strength and its civilian support apparatus, and they had had the racial antagonism of the Malay majority toward the Chinese in their favor as well. The war had still lasted twelve years. (emphasis added, Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, 1989)": <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/how-many-troops-would-it-take-to.html>. -- Yoshie

* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * "Proud of Britain": <http://www.proudofbritain.net/ > and <http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/>



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