Guerilla Tactics

The ‘coalition’ seemed to base their cam­paign on the assump­tion that ‘decapitation’ — the cap­ture of Bagdhad and removal of Saddam Hus­sein — would lead to a swift and easy vic­tory, with a grate­ful pop­u­lace hand­ing over their coun­try upon lib­er­a­tion. Instead, the invad­ing forces face guerilla tac­tics from pro-​Saddam militiamen.

Now, what was that war where Amer­ica was defeated by poorly-​armed, fanat­i­cal locals despite it’s over­whelm­ing mil­i­tary supe­ri­or­ity and assi­tance from Aus­tralian troops?

Posted at 12pm on 25/03/03 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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