Putin may be planning to pummel Kyiv into submission

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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