> I've decided to take a different approach, and fight them in a
> different arena, inspired by the principles of asymmetric warfare.
There's nothing so formidable as an enemy who has nothing to lose.
Relevant aside: Few know that not only did we British invent
concentration camps, we more or less wrote the playbook on suicide
bombing. I've seen rare and disturbing Home Guard training films. It
was not all "Dad's Army". One tag-line was "You can always take one
with you".
Anyway, the point is not about improvised explosives, and women using
prams to walk right into a group of occupying soldiers, but about how
a struggle changes once the underdog realises they really have nothing
much left to lose.
"You can always take one with you" is the proposed campaign in the event Sealion (German amphibious invasion of Great Britain) was attempted successfully. Having actually seen Overlord (the exact opposite scenario, "D Day") we know Sealion could not have worked, although of course in 1940 the British couldn't know that and were right to worry about it.
Since Hitler's general staff believed Sealion wouldn't work it was never attempted and so although "You can always take one with you" was considered it was never actually used.
There were guerrilla units established who had more targeted training (ie. To assassinate collaborators in any puppet government) but that wasn't necessarily a suicide mission and it wasn't general, the "you can always take one with you" messaging would have addressed the general population.
I have to say i'd love to read about those sorts of things if you have a link. I've long been interested in british warfare, since learning about trench warfare going on in new zealand Māori and east india company battles
There's nothing so formidable as an enemy who has nothing to lose.
Relevant aside: Few know that not only did we British invent concentration camps, we more or less wrote the playbook on suicide bombing. I've seen rare and disturbing Home Guard training films. It was not all "Dad's Army". One tag-line was "You can always take one with you".
Anyway, the point is not about improvised explosives, and women using prams to walk right into a group of occupying soldiers, but about how a struggle changes once the underdog realises they really have nothing much left to lose.