> The 'occupy' post did satisfy me intellectually - I don't have a position on the
  > politics either way, but the explanation of 'battle tactics', how they developed 
  > by non-military people and how they can be used 'on the street' was 
  > intellectually interesting.

Read The Art of War (I would recommend some annotated version, can't point to an specific one since I'm only familiar with spanish translations). Then go take part in some picketing, and please please write an article with factual and accurate data about tactics. Mail me, count with my upvote and I'll participate on any discussion related to tactics. This blogpost is factually wrong and amateurish as a discussion on tactics, also full of wishful thinking apologetic of naive ideas about the military power of large groups of protesters.