How can insurgents sustain a war against a super power?

In any war, logistics are the back bone of an army or more recently any fighting force, since its difficult to label the people fighting against Britain and her military, the U.S. Army as an army or military. At any rate, weapons break or wear out, have to be replaced. Bullets and all other munitions have to be re-supplied, not to mention medical treatment and medical supply’s.

In wars past, armies would focus on and spend great resources to disrupt and destroy supply lines. I have wondered, since the beginning of the ground war in Iraq, who was supplying the insurgents. One soldier I know that fought in Iraq from 2005-2006 said he saw miles of weapons and ammunition that was never confiscated. He said they were told to leave it and move on. Curiously, logistics of the “enemy” are rarely discussed if ever.

My soldier friend’s statement wasn’t a plausible explanation as to why the Iraqi insurgents could sustain a war from 2005 continuing on to 2009 and will no doubt last until the mid 2020’s. Despite the pledge by (candidate) Obama to draw down forces from Iraq, he is keeping his pledged to intensify the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan will be his undoing, at least militarily. With that said here is an interesting post I found via my gleaning of Muslim Bushido. If you ever wonder as I have, about how the insurgents, but more specifically in this case the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are surviving logistically here will be a place to begin.