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How did the resistance movements during WWII do it? Most of them had no military training either. What about in Kosovo? What about the average Viet Cong in Vietnam? How did they do it? How are the FARC in Columbia doing it? Seems to me there are a lot of resistance and revolutionary movements in this world that don't have military training. What about the PLO? A palestian sniper killed 7 Isreali soldiers last month with an old bolt-action rifle. Since the average palestian isn't a soldier, how did he or she do it? Training isn't always necessary, just the will and some common sense.
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The french resistance didn't do much direct action. Most of it was heavily punished on civilians. The resistance's contribution came in the way of information to the allies, and sometimes hiding the jews. All the french male had to follow basic training.
Croatia was an independant country when Serbia attacked. They had there own army, although it was not prepared for the invasion.
Vietcongs were trained and armed by the chinese communist regim. In fact, China sent "voluntary" troops there to fight with the viet communists. The vietcongs had already fought an independance war against the French too.
The FARC is a very well trained and disciplined army. "Taxes" on the drug sales allow them to keep a good stock of light weapons and necessary material. They now control almost half of the territory, where they are respected because they bring order (notice i did not say justice). A good number of the founders came from the regular army.
A lot of palestinians fighters are trained in camps in neighbouring countries. They have been fighting almost non-stop with israel for 52 years now, so they have grown in a war environment.
As far as i know, none of the above example could apply to any western europe or north american people.
If there is a need to rise and strike back, people will always be helpless without the support of a part of the army.
Take the Venezuela coup for example: although most of the population was with Chavez, the leader of the country's businessmen took the power with the help and approval of most of the military. Until the day after, where a general made it's way with his division of tanks to the capital.
The contre-coup to put back the twice democratically-elected president into place was NOT founded by democrat countries, was NOT done by the people, but was done by a bright officer protecting the constitution. In fact, people helped a lot (taking back the control of medias etc...), but it would have been meaningless without the military pressure.