Not necessarily a bad thing. A friend of mine was a gunner in the Dutch Resistance..

[TomInTib]

at the age of twelve.

She was a shooter, and she has told me some wild stories.

Anyway, the Resistance was very much a localized leaderless resistance movement. Because in that type of situation there is no chance that the snake will lose its head.

She is a remarkable woman, even after all these years.

And get this, Cerridwen. Her husband-to-be was a sailor in the Dutch Navy who was taken prisoner and held in an underground prison in Hiroshima. One day they felt what they assumed was an earthquake. And the next day the guards didn't show up.

So they waited underground for a few days and still no guards.

They decided to break out and make their way top-side.

I often try to imagine what must have gone through their minds when they surfaced.

[Cerridwen]

1. Not necessarily; though I think it depends on which side of the resistance

one is sitting, yes? :D

I agree, though, if one were to fight in a resistance movement, the leaderless variety could, in many ways, be far more effective, I would presume. If working in unaffiliated concert with a more "traditionally" organized resistance movement...hmm. Sorry, my thoughts stray into strange areas these days.

Your friends sounds like she has some wonderfully, horrific tales to tell. Her stories alongside those of her husband's (they did marry, right?) must be hair-raising, to say the least.