LESSONS FROM ISIS More isn’t better. The problem with 1M men, is feeding and she

LESSONS FROM ISIS

More isn’t better. The problem with 1M men, is feeding and sheltering them. That’s not a problem with 10k, or even 50K men. Groups of 150 are most effective. But in general, you need a lot of men working to feed the rest. Or, you have to plunder, then work, plunder then work. But as we learned from ISIS, if you keep moving and don’t try to hold territory it’s almost impossible to stop you. ISIS only had something on the order of 20k to start with. And while we have estimates of up to 50k in the fields those are very questionable numbers. If you are going to have more men it is better to fight multiple fronts (regions) with 10K groups of men, than it is to have 1M. Shutting down a major city is trivial with even a few hundred men. The only value of large numbers of people is so that the few who do the hard work of real fighting can hide among them as human shields.