I use the term "neo-Confederate" to describe people who think that the Confederacy was a great idea.
I don't hate the South at all. I visit the South several times a year and I can't say enough good things about the people and the places I've encountered there from El Paso to Fredericksburg.
even fewer who have been successful authors of official doctrine on that subject
Please name some of these texts that you authored. I have a relative who until very recently served in Afghanistan as a colonel working in counterinsurgency operations. He'll be able to tell me right away how successful those texts are.
as for COL Bankhead, YES he was an artillery officer, but his detailed knowledge of his "home area"
While it is certainly possible that Bankhead might by some chance have turned out to be some kind of hidden guerrilla warfare genius, I'm not sure why you would pick him out of the thousand or more regiment level Southern officers given his service record. That, in addition to the fact that he surrendered early and immediately began working with Unionists in postwar Memphis makes him a spectacularly unlikely candidate for leadership in a guerrilla movement.
Why would he have succeeded when Jubal Early and John Bell Hood failed? Nothing we know about the man would suggest that.
i suggested Smith P. Bankhead as a POSSIBILITY because he was WELL-known as a hunter/woodsman/leader & was also "well-regarded on his home ground" by citizens. (NOT a bad start to lead a home-based guerrilla movement. LTC Wendell Fertig had FAR LESS obvious knowledge at his founding of USFIP.)
further, you have for the second time failed to notice (or possibly intentionally ignored) that he (nor any of the other CSA leaders) was NOT ordered by President Davis and/or GEN Lee to "go home, organize & continue the fight".
free dixie,sw