Small Wars Journal

Zulu Sunday

Sun, 06/24/2007 - 5:16pm

Men of Harlech stop your dreaming

Can't you see their spear points gleaming

See their warrior pennants streaming

To this battlefield

Men of Harlech stand ye steady

It cannot be ever said ye

For the battle were not ready

Welshmen never yield

From the hills rebounding

Let this song be sounding

Summon all at Cambria's call

The mighty force surrounding

Men of Harlech on to glory

This will ever be your story

Keep these burning words before ye

Welshmen will not yield

Hat Tip to Council Member 120mm

Comments

Our youth have become slaves to study, and even the love of a family produces the irony of being judged sexually. Some teenagers go to top aussie reviews school in the morning and return home at dawn to avoid losing the love of their family. You are hovering around the house at an age when you should be able to bond with your family. 

"This will ever be your story..."

Paragraphs 1-75 to 1-83 in the new Army Counterinsurgency Manual discuss the role of narrative (storytelling) in the development of insurgencies and in their continuance. "Stories about a community's history provide models of how actions and consequences are linked. Stories are often the basis for strategies and actions, as well as for interpreting others' intentions."

Can anyone point me to any publications that have specifically discussed this topic (the role of narratives in insurgent and counterinsurgent strategies)? I am not a specialist in the military literature, so there may well be a famous ten volume treatise on the subject that everyone else already knows -- if so, I'd be glad to be directed to it.

Many thanks.

Bob