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Originally Posted by Widigo  Who do you have that is already trained in those areas listed, and is it the cell's responsibility to keep up withe every advance in tech that could compromise a mission. It just seems a little unrealistic to have a small group of people: working jobs, taking from the "enemy", defending themselves, advancing their own tech (if they are not properly supplied then they will spend a lot of time mending boots, wounds, and fixing guns and preparing ammo and explosives), and train their subordinates, as well as normal stuff (dishes, trash, showers and eating. It seems like having to keep up with the enemy as well will take a toll on the cell. You could wind up with groups of men with no quality of life and no reason to die for you, who are now overworked. |
You are putting too much thought into it, first off all Guerrilla Warfare relies on popular support. Friendly, non-combat support from the general population. Allot of what you mentioned has no value on battlefield, dishes are a simple as a camp style mess kit. No one is gonna fix a gun in the field and no one is mending boots a guerrilla army is not a Regular Army with supply lines and government support. Also Guerrillas do not defend themselves they out manuver the enemy; thus the Sun Tzu sayings;
"When the enemy adavances we retreat."
"When the enemy retreats we adavance."
When the enemy camps we harass."
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Originally Posted by Widigo My thing is that it could work, but if I were to approach this as an enemy I see a few key weaknesses. The lack of prowess, the crudeness, and the overall workload of soldiers turns what should be a tool made for killing (a soldier) into something that is having to do everything else. Rank can not fix that entirely. There is also the fact that individual cells are easy to remove. They would not be fully informed on the tech advances and strategies of the enemy as a whole, so they would not know to advance or change tactics themselves. You made a system that is hard to remove, but not overly threatening. Sure they could hurt outlaying settlements, but a cell is easily removed because of the workload and minimal size, and it would take huge coordination of blocks of troops to overthrow the enemy. Which means you are putting the faith of anywhere from a hundred to thousands of men in your hands based on the theory that you can lead them all to push the right settlement at the right time to destroy an empire. A lot of pressure on you, and not a huge moral booster. |
Widigo, you just discribed Guerrilla Warfare; it is a war of attrition against a larger and stronger force. It relies on being small & unnoticed. Yes, the work load on a single small cell is fairly great but as the cell proves successful and it gains supporters you'll have people fighting back but not connected to you and you'll have connected cells as you're own force grows.
Unlike the traditional Guerrilla or Terrorist Cell organized around individual non-connected cells under one banner; this allows a guerrilla unit to opperate but be interconnected to form larger units. More so, no one needs hundreds or thousands if men until the guerrilla cell is expanded into a regular military force. You seem to not have a good grasp of what guerrilla warfare is compared to regular military forces...
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Originally Posted by Widigo it could work, but I think that there are areas in which the simple plan of not having specific forces, and not having key money making areas and substance providers could hurt in the grand scope. Also, armys need a face. It's a moral thing. Nobody dies without cause, they do it for money or love, that's all that really motivates men. |
All of that is a matter of popular support, and each cell can be small enough to use the enemy's gear and weapons. An enemy squad or platoon could easily supply such a small unit. Thr initial small unit could easily stock up weapons and ammo and supply a secondary unit. Until a regular force can be set up by that time the enemy should have spent so much time dealing with losses they don't want to deal with such a force.
More so, you seem to be missing that the nature of guerrilla warfare is not to directly engage the enemy except when needed. Guerrilla warfare is about manuver and concealment not holding ground and holding a frontline. Direct contact is limited to Raids and Ambushs and everything else is a matter of Sabotage, Espionage & Assassination. But again the issue isn't how to fight but how to organize...
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Originally Posted by bloodlusta My point exactly! It would work with a single group but it means that you will not be able to coordinate anything big. Just a few car bombs ect |
Just but a few stategically placed car bombs can do allot. Look at the IRA they won mostly by propaganda and a few well placed bombs, assassinations and stategic raids. You don't need constant fighting just a successful fighting...