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Originally posted by cheesehead:
i said they are like a guerilla group( sabotaging ,interupting) dharma/hanso projects) i think they or (their parents) caused the 1985 incident in the swan.
Just so everyone is clear. Guerrillas in this sense are a group fighting against a main leading body as I have mentioned. The meaning of Guerilla is from the Spanish term guerra, or War, with the -illa ending diminutive, it can be be translated as small war, in this case against Hanso possibly. Though less a war than a resistence to do what Hanso what which they will fight against doing to the death it seems.
The term was invented in Spain to describe the tactics used to resist the French regime instituted by Napoleon Bonaparte (again similar to the way that the Others are resisting the will of Hanso). The -illa term accepts the unequal fight between civilians against an organized State Army or in this case a large organisation.
Its meaning was soon broadened to refer to any similar resistance of any time or place such as this one.
Guerrilla tactics are based on intelligence, ambush, deception, sabotage, and espionage, undermining an authority through long, low-intensity confrontation. As you have mentioned and is something the Others have become very adept at.
Just to add, it may be of interest to some that T.E.Lawrence, best known as "Lawrence of Arabia," introduced a theory of guerrilla warfare tactics in an article he wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica published in 1938.
In that article, he compared guerrilla fighters to a gas. The fighters disperse in the area of operations more or less randomly. They or their cells occupy a very small intrinsic space in that area, just as gas molecules occupy a very small intrinsic space in a container. The fighters may coalesce into groups for tactical purposes, but their general state is dispersed. Such fighters cannot be "rounded up." They cannot be contained. They are extremely difficult to "defeat" because they cannot be brought to battle in significant numbers.
The cost in soldiers and material to destroy a significant number of them becomes prohibitive, in all senses, that is physically, economically, morally, etc.
It should be noted that Lawrence describes a non-native occupying force as the enemy (e.g. our losties must appear that way to the others!!)
I had this idea in my head when I posted and assumed others would know what I meant so was quite shocked to see you post it as an idea of your own. Thinking I had posted clearly (and looking back by the way I can see I didnt at all) I was quite taken aback at the rudeness of posting directly after me and rephrasing what i thought I had posted in a way that made it your own. How silly I feel and excuse my impudence I meant no offence though imagined I felt it.
If its any consolation, Im off on holiday tomorrow, am racked with stomach pains and stressing about packing etc etc so please excuse me for thinking I had wroitten what I hadnt, Im nuts this week, sorry
Thank you. Namaste. Good Luck.
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