It is during the war after the war that the occupier’s inferiority is revealed, with constant reinforcements increasing the number of targets for the insurgents far more quickly than the occupier can adapt to the changing battlefield. The insurgents in Iraq, as the British admit, were able in just three years to cope with their enemies’ technological superiority in a way that the IRA in Northern Ireland was unable to do in 30 years.
占领者的劣势在战后的战斗中暴露出来。持续的强化部署为叛乱分子增加了目标，而占领军根本来不及适应战场形势的变化。伊拉克的叛乱分子，正如英国人所承认的，仅用了三年的时间就能应对它们敌方的技术优势，而同样的应对能力北爱的爱尔兰共和军花了30年都没做到。