Reply #9: The idea that security walls or other techniques

[teryang]

...can help win a war of occupation is ridiculous on its face. The concept shows a complete lack of understanding of what a guerilla war of national independence is all about. If the only way of obtaining security is to put everyone in a armor plated box, politically and tactically you've already failed. The essence of political success is human interaction. If you don't respect or understand the culture, don't speak the language, had no righteous justification for war, and lack politically legitimacy, you've failed before you started. In such a situation, you can only disengage and change your political objectives.

But we already knew that.