Naval War College, Newport, RI
Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA
National Defense University, Washington DC (includes National War College)
Air War College, Maxwell AFB, AL
Marine War College, Quantico, VA
There are also many advanced Officer Training programs, civilian/military think tanks, training commands, strategy centers, and other programs that are often generically called ‘war colleges’.
In Desert Storm I, the Iraqi’s dug anti-tank trenches along the Saudi-Kuwait border which they filled with crude oil and lit on fire. I remember the original reports mocked them but later there were issues with the heat melting some tank tracks. The main American advance was a sweeping flank maneuver through the desert over an area too vast for anti-tank ditches to be effective.
Agreed. Problem is, I haven’t made a political comment. Instead, I made a statement of fact, of military history.
When separated out in either the Belgian Congo or South American, Che Guevara was a failure as a guerrilla/guerrilla leader and today is a cipher in the annals of South American history. He arrived on the guerrilla scene believing himself destined to change the face of history, yet his impact was less than zero and there’s nothing to suggest greater future impact, if not for his murder. I encourage interested parties to read more about his travails in Bolivia–travails showing that political theory doesn’t always play out smoothly on the battlefront.
I took this;
as a political comment.
Small beans, though. Che is passé as a café discussion topic, isn’t he?
Maybe not. Che has never been more popular. Looks great on t-shirts, coffee mugs and Broadway stages. 
Yeah, if Che didn’t have that <b>one</b> picture of him taken no one would remember his name.
I see more images of Einstein around here. 'Course that could be due to living near an engineering school.
Both Castro and Guevara were mostly non-entities during the years between 1956 and 1957, holed up as they were in the Sierra Maestra mountains on the east end of Cuba. Their force was small and badly armed. Most of the fighting against Batista was carried out in the cities by students, labor, and a disenchanted middle class. It was their actions that ultimately drove Batista out, those tacticts consisted of general strikes, bombing campaigns, daily demonstrations, sabotaging power and water supplies and so on.
Guevara did take place in one significant battle in 1958 where he led a small group of irregulars and derailed a troop train. The biggest acomplishment by Castro, and Guevara was part of this, was negotiating the surrender of all police and armed forces to his own group after the fall of the Batista government. This left Castro’s group as the holder of all military power in the island. Castro soon used that power to consolidate his leadership in the revolutionary government, and shortly thereafter to purge from same government all those not in his group. Guevara was also purged shortly thereafter.