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No offense but that sounds a bit leftcommy. I believe we need to recognize the material conditions are so deeply against us that in order for a revolution to have any chance of success in this jingoist country we will almost certainly need to make active inroads in splitting the military ideologically and pushing them left utilizing their experience in combat to serve as cadres. I wont disagree that veterans are overwhelmingly reactionary, I'm not even saying I like them, however I cannot think of a single revolution that succeeded without an organized effort deployed to incorporate military experience into the revolution itself. Without that I can't imagine a revolution progressing further than the Paris Commune.
Forgot to mention you could also read books on insurgencies and train in their tactics being an insurgent is different from a common soldier
This is idealistic and idealist. You can't learn how to handle the adrenaline given off in the face of imminent death from a book. Sensory experience cannot be invalidated for it serves as memory for future similar stimuli. Furthermore tales of combat heroism are essential to the morale of an army, the CPVF utilized this brilliantly by listening to soldier feedback and creating a newspaper acknowledging accomplishments by and distributed to the CPVF forces on the Korean front soon into their early campaigns.
you’d be surprised to learn how much experience actually matters in combat and how much of what your describing is actually from training not from combat
We aren't all Batman dude
To learn how something works you have learn about it to be ready for it you have to train you don’t need to be batman
What does training for combat in the imperial core entail?