Zulu Sunday
06.24.2007 at 09:16pm
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
“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