A poor analogy. Nuclear physics is a highly specialized field with very few students.
Military strategy, operations and tactics is a much less rarefied discipline.
How many soldiers, active and veteran, are there in the world? How many nuclear physicists?
One gains knowledge of military science by either studying the battles of the past or by personally participating in battle in a command capacity.
I have done a good deal of the former and none of the latter.
Your statements on this forum show that you have done very little of the former and also none of the latter.
This is borne out by the lack of any insightful commentary on strategy or tactics by you on this thread - indeed, by your glaring inability to even distinguish the two.
Your crowing about credentials in lieu of actual substantial commentary inspires me to bring up the case of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest never claimed to have written military police manuals or even to have read or studied anything about warfare - but he is considered one of the greatest tactical innovators of his age.
By your standards, he would have absolutely no idea what he was talking about because he had none of the credentials you claim to have.
It is obvious from the commentary you have given on this thread that you know embarrassingly little about the actions and the military thinking of Forrest, Mosby, Lee, Hood and other great Confederate captains.
Your mention of Bankhead as a potential guerrilla leader was a painful reminder of your ignorance about this episode of our nation's history.
Not only was Bankhead one of the most eager and industrious Southern helpers in the Reconstruction with no personal inclination to carry on the fight, he was an artillerist - not a captain of infantry or cavalry - whose one attempt at a field command over anything other than emplaced batteries was an abject failure that got him disgraced.
The one thing I expect from a neo-Confederate is a basic knowledge of the Confederate armed services. You haven't even given us that.
as for "a poor analogy", there are relatively FEW persons in the US military services, who have ACTUAL training/experience/detailed knowledge of guerrilla/counter-guerrilla operations. & even fewer who have been successful authors of official doctrine on that subject. (i happen to be one of those.)- therefore your comments are UNKNOWING & pardon me for saying so, SILLY & UNEDUCATED.
as for COL Bankhead, YES he was an artillery officer, but his detailed knowledge of his "home area" might well have made him (and many others like him) an excellent guerrilla leader (like Francis Marion of AmRev fame), had he been ordered to do so.===> may i further remind you that LTC Wendell Fertig, a "Reserve Major of Civil Engineers,who is of no particular talent or experience" (according to the J-2 of GEN MacArthur's staff) successfully LED the USFIP, against the Japanese during WW2??
thus your post remains nothing more than your personal opinion. (opinion absent knowledge/experience/training is use-LESS.) free dixie,sw