Another tweet is dreadful analogy. This is worse than the absurd analogies that followed 9-11. This latest descent into absurdity is to refer to George Washington and a future the Ukrainian insurgency.
A better alternatives: Mosby as a similar style of raider guerrilla as Sidor Kovpak, the famous Ukrainian partisan leader.
Perhaps a better reference point, for an American view analogy, might have been this book. Closer to the kind of conflict Americans pursued for a large part of their history. The relevance here being the brutal conflict that is escalating in the Ukraine.
Perhaps more insightful to the actualities of Russian insurgency warfare and the Ukraine. The first was published by @USArmyCMH in the 1950s. The follow up Armstrong edition cost the State Department millions of dollars and indirectly led to the greater intervention in Vietnam.
A dubious option, but given the US interest, could have been to have recommended the more recent publications about COIN or the ‘surge’ from Iraq. We of course know how those winnable COIN wars worked out in the end.
Instead Twitter masses are offered a totally irrelevant book. Please note Page 338 clearly explains why this book and its contents are not relevant or helpful in analysing the present conflict in Ukraine.
Evidence shows the Ukrainian resistance is far from being an effective insurgency. The scale of destruction is destroying the Ukrainian capability for rendering insurgent resistance except at local level. There is no George Washington scenario.
Correction* Another tweet of dreadful analogy’ apologies.
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