AHC: Revival of the International Brigades

wtw

A bunch of Highly trained Mercenaries for higher travelling to war tron parts of the world to the highest bidder. That or some sort of Religous warfare orgainization.
 
mcdo

mcdo

wtw said:
A bunch of Highly trained Mercenaries for higher travelling to war tron parts of the world to the highest bidder. That or some sort of Religous warfare orgainization.
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Isn't that already happening? I have seen news reports before about religoiusly-motivated young men from around the region traveling to Syria to fight, for example. Although that would seem to be more international volunteers than international brigades per se.
 

NotYetRegistered

A conventional force called the International Brigades, organized as such, or a force similar that is around 50k foreigners fighting for an ideological cause, drawn from Europeans or any other people not fighting for religious reasons. 50k people heading out to Syria to fight for democracy wouldn't count, it has to be in a coherent organization.
 
Kome

Kome

NotYetRegistered said:
A conventional force called the International Brigades, organized as such, or a force similar that is around 50k foreigners fighting for an ideological cause, drawn from Europeans or any other people not fighting for religious reasons. 50k people heading out to Syria to fight for democracy wouldn't count, it has to be in a coherent organization.
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A general who thinks 50,000 men is the ideal size for a brigade should be fired. :p
 
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GiantMonkeyMan

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I think the most similar experience you came to the International Brigades would have been the Cuban guerilla units that fought across the globe with local communists and peasant anti-colonial movements. I think it'd be interesting if more figures like Fanon survived to join Che and others in travelling to specific countries in turmoil to fight for socialism and anti-imperialism. You could have Cubans, Algerians, Irish Republicans, maybe groups like Baader-Meinhof or the Red Brigades and other anti-imperialist fighters all fighting in the same organisation.... cool to think about but perhaps not so plausible.

Another thing to note, Spain was an isolated incident (relatively) whereas, after WW2, there were ongoing anti-colonial wars springing up all over the place so there was never any real focal point for international brigades to converge.
 

Paladin

There was a short-lived move towards Int'l Brigades in the early days of the Libyan Civil War (including one right here on AH.com). However, most national governments frowned on them, the Libyans didn't have the infrastructure to support them, and the war ended relatively quickly. However, I did hear of a few college kids who wound up over there anyway (all of them stuck in safe rearguard positions-even the Libyans didn't want them at the frontline).
 
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