by Sam Culper
As long as we’re on the topic of lessons learned, I came across this article about an abridged history of African National Congress underground operations against the South African government. Because there have been numerous communist-led revolutions in the past 100 years, we’ve inadvertently been provided a very deep cache of lessons learned.
I’m going to jot down a few of them, and I highly encourage everyone else to formulate their own lessons learned based on their own operational environments. Those of us who harp on being good students of history do so because, as they say, the learning curve is vertical. To quote Otto van Bismarck: “The fool learns from his own mistakes while the wise learn from others’ mistakes;” to amend: even if we abhor everything those teachers of history accomplished.
“The great questions of the time will not be resolved by speeches and majority decisions—that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.” OvB
So at any rate, here are my thoughts on this article:
