It's hard to imagine any well armed population being successfully occupied against it's will. Look at how much difficulty a small percentage of the population is causing in Iraq, and most of them aren't all that well trained.
As the Japanese Admiral noted when asked why Japan didn't ever try to land in the US, 'What are you crazy? Every one there owns a gun.'
The sharpshooter scenario though is very much like the English approach to the long bow. The real key to any such defense is that if the people all want the same thing, and all are willing to risk everything for it, they essentially don't need command and control. If the Shite's ever lose patience with the occupation, we will see that happen, and it won't be pretty.
It's hard to imagine any well armed population being successfully occupied against it's will. Look at how much difficulty a small percentage of the population is causing in Iraq, and most of them aren't all that well trained.
As the Japanese Admiral noted when asked why Japan didn't ever try to land in the US, 'What are you crazy? Every one there owns a gun.'
The sharpshooter scenario though is very much like the English approach to the long bow. The real key to any such defense is that if the people all want the same thing, and all are willing to risk everything for it, they essentially don't need command and control. If the Shite's ever lose patience with the occupation, we will see that happen, and it won't be pretty.
Essentially what the Swiss have depended on for 400 years, and it's worked for them. But in today's world they need a few other things: Light Antitank Weapons or RPG-7s, night vision device equipped weapons, possibly suppressed, and a MANPADS antiaircraft missile for about every 50th or 100th trooper.
Add in some mines or demo charges, and possibly some *Liberator* or *Deer Gun* single-shot assassination pistols, and life becomes very difficult for the occupiers, indeed.
Note though, that in 1959 when faced with a Soviet invasion of Finland following Soviet military operations in Hungary and East Germany, the Finns found a simple but effective response: They sold off a few tons of relic and captured weapons from the WWI and WWII period to the Interarmco weapons brokering firm, and in return got 100,000 leftover British Sten guns. The Russians recalled the 4 months of 1939-40 when they last visited in Finland, and two thirds of their invasion force became permanent fixtures in the Finnish countryside, fertilizing the fields and forests as their last favour to those they'd have enslaved.
The Russians chose not to press their luck. Those murderous Finns were crazy, and a tenth of a million of them had Sten guns, with many of the others still maintaining rifles from the last time such things took place.
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That's an important point. In fact, the will is even more important than how well armed they are.