Chapter 1073 Classic Works and the Headache of the US Army

Before dinner, Amir called the team members together and began to give them a lecture.

As long as they were not on a mission, they had to study two theoretical courses every day.

One course was called "Protracted War", which summarized the valuable experience of Afghanistan's victory in the fight against the Soviet army. It criticized the "Afghanistan must perish" and "Afghanistan's quick victory" that some people believed, as well as the fact that some Afghans despised guerrilla warfare, and systematically expounded Afghanistan's strategy of implementing a protracted war to win the war against the United States.

The book "Protracted War" scientifically demonstrated the development law of the fight against the Soviet army, thereby clarifying the path to victory in the fight against the United States, criticizing various erroneous understandings of the war against the United States, and ideologically armed the guerrilla fighters and the Afghan people, and strengthened the confidence of the Afghan people in winning the war against the United States. It is the theoretical program guiding Afghanistan's national resistance to the United States.

All guerrilla squad leaders and above have a copy of "Protracted War" and must persist in daily study.

There is also a course called "Guerrilla Warfare". This "Guerrilla Warfare" summarizes the experience of the Afghan people in fighting against the Soviet army, pointing out that guerrilla warfare is an irregular warfare, using attacks as a means, with high mobility, flexibility, initiative, offensiveness and quick decision, and can widely mobilize the masses to participate in the war. Wandering without fighting is escapism, and fighting without wandering is desperate. The essence of guerrilla warfare is to harass the enemy when they stay, to attack the enemy when they are tired, to retreat when the enemy advances, and to pursue the enemy when they retreat.

The combat method of guerrilla warfare follows the five principles of reasonable selection of combat locations, rapid deployment of troops, reasonable allocation of troops, reasonable selection of combat opportunities, and rapid retreat after the battle.

It also gives examples of various guerrilla warfare tactics such as sparrow warfare, tunnel warfare, mine warfare, ambush warfare, sabotage warfare, siege warfare, etc.

After dinner, Amir organized everyone to watch a movie in the cave. Except for the necessary sentinels, everyone was watching a movie. At this time, they used a projector equivalent to the 1980s and 1990s in China. It was a very simple projection method, with a beam of light projected onto a screen.

What we watched today was the Sparrow Warfare, which was combined with theoretical learning.

Sparrow warfare was mainly carried out in mountainous areas, where the terrain was complex and the roads were rugged. The guerrillas were familiar with the local conditions in the mountains. When the coalition forces entered the mountains, the guerrilla fighters flew all over the sky like sparrows, gathering and dispersing from time to time, and attacking the enemy everywhere. The coalition forces were unfamiliar with the people and the place, so they could only hover on the avenue and be beaten, and they could do nothing about them.

The guerrillas watched with relish, as if they saw the simple-dressed and crudely-armed fighters in the movie, which were themselves, and they felt very involved, so as to learn the essence of the Sparrow Warfare.

After watching the movie, Amir asked everyone to rest, and he went to a corner, lit a candle, and studied "Protracted War".

Amir used to be a small leader of the guerrillas. Later, in the peaceful era, he went to a middle school as a teacher. He thought that Afghanistan would be peaceful from then on and there would be no more wars.

He did not expect that war would come to Afghanistan again, and the enemy was more brutal than the Soviet Union.

The Soviets would not bomb cities, let alone schools and hospitals.

But this time the enemy would!

When Amir saw his school was reduced to ruins by bombs dropped by bombers, he cried. After crying, he decided to return to his old job, join the organization, and was appointed as the captain of this guerrilla team.

At the beginning, this guerrilla team had only 80 people.

According to the news they received, they came to this natural cave that had been abandoned for many years, but they didn't expect that there were a lot of food and weapons and ammunition here.

Amir led the guerrillas to win battles again and again, and many young men around chose to join his guerrillas. His guerrillas also grew rapidly, and even had more than 400 people, which was five times larger!

Through ambushes and attacks again and again, Amir's guerrillas won battles again and again, seized a large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies. Each team member not only had guns and weapons, but also could support him to expand his army by 1,000 people again.

Amir regards the two books "Protracted War" and "Guerrilla Warfare" as classics like the Bible. He firmly believes that victory must belong to the guerrillas! Victory must belong to Afghanistan!

Even if Kabul has fallen, Amir has not wavered. Uruzgan Province, capital of Tarinkot City.

Uruzgan Province was established in 1989. It is located in the central part of Afghanistan, in the valley in the south of the Hindu Kush Mountains, adjacent to Daikundi Province, Ghazni Province, Ghor Province, Zabul Province and other provinces.

The entire Uruzgan Province covers an area of ​​22,696 square kilometers and originally had a population of 627,000, of which the capital Tarinkot City had a population of less than 100,000.

Many buildings here have been bombed into ruins, and the current population of the entire city is about 30,000 to 50,000.

The coalition military camp is located in the city, a relatively intact building. This is the coalition command headquarters of the coalition in Uruzgan Province, responsible for the operations in Uruzgan Province.

The first level of administrative division in Afghanistan is the province. The whole of Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces, each with its own county, and the capital is Kabul.

The coalition forces of the 34 provinces have occupied 19 provincial capitals, including the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Kabul, meaning trade center, had a population of 3 million before the war. It is the largest city in Afghanistan and the political, economic and cultural center of Afghanistan. It is located in the eastern part of Afghanistan, on the southern foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains, surrounded by mountains, with an altitude of 1,950 meters. It is one of the highest capitals in the world. Kabul is an ancient city with a long history. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, it was the center of trade between the East and the West and the transportation fortress between Europe and Central Asia and the South Asian subcontinent.

It was only after the coalition occupied Kabul that it announced to the world that the coalition had controlled the situation in Afghanistan and it would not take long to occupy all the territory of Afghanistan.

But in fact, by now, the coalition has discovered a serious problem, that is, the lack of troops.

Like the coalition forces in Uruzgan Province, there are only 5,000 people in total, but they are responsible for the operations of the entire Uruzgan Province.

This gave the commander of the coalition forces in Uruzgan Province, 'John', a headache, because Uruzgan Province is mountainous and plateau-rich, and transportation is very inconvenient.

Military supplies have to be transported from Pakistan.

The airport here has not been built yet, so we have to take the land road, and a small part of it is airdropped by transport planes.

But the land road is rugged and difficult to travel, and it is easy to be attacked by guerrillas.

This caused heavy losses to the coalition forces.

John wanted to deal with the guerrillas and annihilate them.

But the guerrillas are very cunning, and they will never fight again after they succeed. Armored vehicles can't go in the mountains at all. Even if they can go in some places, the speed is not even as fast as the guerrillas walking on foot, and helicopters will also face the threat of guerrillas' portable individual air defense missiles.

John has scolded previous decision makers more than once, why did they fund so many Stinger missiles for the Taliban in Afghanistan? It used to be a headache for the Soviets, and now it's the turn of the coalition led by the US military.