In this episode, I sketch the life and exploits of one of my three Peak Guerrillas from the beginning of the 20th century, German GEN Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. I want to explore what I consider the next step in guerrilla evolution employing age-old techniques and strategies harnessed to modern technology and employment within the new age of mechanized warfare and not so mechanized warfare as the Allies would discover during their four year campaign against the poorly supported but brilliant innovations and TTP of Lettow-Vorbeck and his Schutztruppe (German for “Protection Force”) .
References:
Edward Paice World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
Edwin P. Hoyt Guerrilla: COL Lettow-Vorbeck and Germany’s East African Empire
Isabel Hull Absolute Destruction: Military Culture And The Practices Of War In Imperial Germany
Bruce Gilley In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
Tim Pat Coogan Michael Collins
James Gleeson Bloody Sunday
Tom Barry Guerrilla Days in Ireland
Peter Hart Michael Collins
Scott Anderson Lawrence of Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
James J. Schneider Guerrilla Leader: TE Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
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