Modern conflicts are increasingly fought less on traditional battlefields and more through irregular warfare like disrupting supply chains, conducting psych ops, and other strategic maneuvers—including timing attacks with an eye toward media coverage and upcoming elections.
Perhaps no one in American history perfected the art of irregular warfare like Confederate partisan leader John Singleton Mosby and his Rangers, who although they never numbered more than a few hundred men, terrorized and disrupted thousands of Union troops in the Shenandoah Valley.
Mosby’s Rangers. Top row (left to right): Lee Herverson, Ben Palmer, John Puryear, Tom Booker, Norman Randolph, Frank Raham.# Second row: Robert Blanks Parrott, John Troop, John W. Munson, John S. Mosby, Newell, Neely, Quarles.# Third row: Walter Gosden, Harry T. Sinnott, Butler, Gentry, Public Domain
Despite being pursued…
