The science of military strategy?

[ThunderKiss1965]

For most of history, revolutionary wars were fought as a populous offense against a much smaller defendant.

But what if now you need to fight it the other way around?

Imagine that you are a small revolutionary group, and you are in a war against an invading and entrenched enemy, that has swarmed you up and has crowded you out.

Imagine that this highly numerous enemy has also the latest military technology and a lot of money. Further complication shall be that this enemy is radicalized, and there is no difference between its combatant forces and civilian population.

How do you work out a military strategy to uproot such an enemy and push it back to its own turf? Or neutralize it by kill rate? Or in any other means?

Asymmetric warfare.

 

[Publius1787]

For most of history, revolutionary wars were fought as a populous offense against a much smaller defendant.

But what if now you need to fight it the other way around?

Imagine that you are a small revolutionary group, and you are in a war against an invading and entrenched enemy, that has swarmed you up and has crowded you out.

Imagine that this highly numerous enemy has also the latest military technology and a lot of money. Further complication shall be that this enemy is radicalized, and there is no difference between its combatant forces and civilian population.

How do you work out a military strategy to uproot such an enemy and push it back to its own turf? Or neutralize it by kill rate? Or in any other means?

Asymmetric warfare.

Eww, you opened that can of worms.

 

[Syriusly]

France was not established by its revolution. The greatest part of the political integration of the modern nation had already been achieved before 1789.
What might be interesting to think about is the June, 1940 position of France and the arrival of the Wehrmacht. Of course, The situation should not have been as it was; France should have driven deep into Germany at the beginning of Sept., '39. But, given that they waited and Guderion came through the Ardennes, what could the French Army have done?
Well, Paris is indefensible strategically. We assume that the French had not made the mistake of betting everything on the bad British strategy and the the army itself had not been flanked. Withdrawing into the massif central and moving the fleet from the Med around to the Atlantic, they could have given the Germans hell for a long time, and maybe have better negotiated an armistice. They had good fighter planes and good tanks. These were just poorly used.

Lots of what ifs there.

There was no need for the French fleet in the Atlantic- the British was far superior- but the French fleet in the Med could have been useful- the French could have retreated south and likely evacuated a large number of troops and aircraft to French North Africa- and the French Army and Navy in exile in North Africa would made much of the German/Italian Med policy virtually impossible.

 

[anotherlife]

I think we are still not addressing the basic question of this thread. Are there any strategies existent, that can be used when you are crowded out? For example if you are from a few of those Flandrian villages scattered in the vast array of French speaking towns around you? Or if you are Welsh, scattered thinly between majority English speaking towns? Or if you are a few Bosnian streets scattered between the many Serbian and Croatian streets in your town?

Yes, this job / assignment includes the task of figuring out how to push out a majority enemy population that has already entrenched itself all around you, including that the enemy is using civilian settler pressure against you.

Has this problem ever been solved in the history of military strategies?