Talk:Pockets of resistance/Archive 1

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A fact from Pockets of resistance/Archive 1 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that pockets of resistance created during the German invasions of France in 1940 and Yugoslavia in 1941 developed into resistance movements that tied down several German divisions?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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This article was nominated for deletion on March 2007. The result of the discussion was Keep.

O.k. I did mention that I had no idea how to categorize this document, but somehow 'United States military stub' just doesn't cut it.

Sfacets 10:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Iraq?

The article starts by saying the term has been used in regard to the Iraq War, but there seems to be nothing about this in the article except the CNN link. Either the introduction should be changed (is the Iraq usage really of primary significance?) or the claim should be supported. -- Dhartung | Talk 06:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I would agree that the article needs work. Several days ago, I saw it on AfD and it consisted of the one-sentence lead (regarding the Iraq war) plus the CNN link. Much of what you see here was slapped together in the next 33 minutes, from my fading memory of a college class on the European theater of World War II. Shibumi2 appears to be an expert on the Pacific theater, and perhaps experts on other wars where "pockets of resistance" appeared would like to get involved. Anyway, it's wonderful that it got "DYK" recognition; and perhaps it may now get some attention from such experts. Dino 17:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I voted against it in the AFD, to be honest -- I don't feel it's well defined or notable enough of a term, especially given the salients etc. article we already have. It's certainly not as notable a term of art in Iraq as e.g. "dead-enders". It's also being used in quite different ways as a guerrilla insurgency has little tactical relationship to encircled infantry. (One could potentially write an entire essay on what this says about the Pentagon's approach vis-a-vis "fighting the last war" etc.!) Anyway, I'm inclined to remove the Iraq reference if the article isn't going to go into detail about it. --Dhartung | Talk 22:11, 7 March 2007 (UTC)