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Originally posted by smooth
"Each state raised and administered its own force and appointed a commander for it. Discipline was lax and there was no single chain of command[...]The men were dressed for the most part in homespun clothes and armed with muskets of varied types; powder and ball were short and only the barest few had bayonets."
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--http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-03.htm
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That is a decentralized (stateless) fighting force with no uniform--the definition of a terrorist.
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Not true if you are armed you are considered a distingushed combatant, especially if you are in the realm of combat. Furthermore I don't know if you could consider them decentralized they were members of a sovereign state albeit fighting for its Independence (by definition "Sovereign state, a state which administers its own government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power.")
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Terrorists don't merely attack civilian targets and they are "both armed and in the realm of battle."
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Donnie we're not going to split hairs are we?