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Re:Putin may be planning to pummel Kyiv into submission by hef19898 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:11AM (#30597684)
Guerillas, and partisans, were quite successful in places like Yugoslavia (WW2), Afghanistan (against the USSR and NATO), Ireland (against the British), Belarus (WW2), Poland (WW2), the Finish used some Guerilla style tactics (WW2 against the USSR). Ukraine was less a Guerilla hot bed in WW2 (it was early on, and then again after Stalingrad). None of those places were tribal societies (exception: Afghanistan to a degree) or desert. Nor was the Elephant in the room, Vietnam (they won twice, once against France and once against the US). The only desert based guerilla campaigns in recent history I can think of right now were Algeria (in the 60s) and Arabia (against the Ottomans in WW1).

Ukraine is a huge country, cities are a great environment for insurgents. I'd be surprised if that wasn't an option Ukraine's planning. That they didn't have to resort to that kind of warfare yet is quite surprising if you ask me.

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Re:Putin may be planning to pummel Kyiv into submission by grujicd on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:37AM (#30597856)
Partisans in WW2 Yugoslavia were successful in mountainous parts of country, where you can hide after guerilla actions. Flatlands and big cities were liberated only when Red Army came along on its way to Berlin.

We’re not talking about fighting only. There has to be a local support for guerilla to eat and sleep. That might work in primarily agricultural countriside but not in cities built around industry.

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Re:Putin may be planning to pummel Kyiv into submission by hef19898 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:51AM (#30597932)
Ok, I assume that's why Bagdad was considered to be such a safe city outside the green zone then? Due to a lack of insurgents? Insurgents need a place to hide, whether that is the country side or among the population doesn't matter.

Another, if somewhat less successful, urban insurgent group is the IRA. The Troubles were almost exclusively urban fighting.

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