I was trying to be pc ...didn't want to give out too many details.
Your post is spot on the mark. People should study the guerilla war that occurred in E.T. and western N.C. It made Bosnia look like a boy scout jamboree. People were still killing each other 20 years after hostilities were declared done and over.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
...didn't want to give out too many details.
