They don’t have to teach Forensics.
The Tyrant[sub]tm[/sub] is not just the armed forces. It is the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government. It is the FBI, CIA, NSO, DEA, all police and every bureau. The soldiers, cops, etc who cordon off the area don’t need training in forensics. They just need to hold the area until the forensic squad arrives.
Which ignores my point as well. Killing civilians will only strengthen the goverment, not weaken it.
It all depends what the government in question wants. If the goal is some sort of ordered totalitarian state, then civilan insurgence could make a difference, especially with crippling terrorist-style attacks on major infrastructure points. But if all they’re looking for is to hoard the tax money and spend it on gold plated limos, then they aren’t going to care much if the country gets shut down in that manner.
Take Sadaam for instance. After Desert Storm, the Iraqi infrastructure was nonexistant. The country saw horrific suffering. But there was still plenty of money to support one guy, and plenty of people willing to help him out in return for minor considerations.
This isn’t likely to do anything to bring the government down, all that it will lead to is the government growing ever more repressive. The Shining Path and Tupac Amura Revolutionary Movement tried this in Peru. They were able to keep this up for a long time, but all that indiscriminate attacks against civilians brought them was less support amongst the citizenry and an even more oppressive regime than the one that they were initially fighting. In order for guerillas to gain from violence against civilians, they have to orchestrate it such that most of the violence is coming from the government in their effort to quash the guerillas.
IANA military theorist, but–a technical question:
I put the crappy old computer in the closet, which I line with aluminum foil, making a Faraday cage. My wife covers for me by surfing on the nice new computer, hopefully masking any electromagnetic leakage from the closet. I then go into my closet, encrypt revolutionary plans with GnuPG, steganographically conceal the ciphertext in a photo of two women pleasuring each other, save it on floppy, and email the picture from my non-isolated computer to a co-conspirator, with the caption, “CHECK THIS OUT DUDE!!!” Even if the oppressive state has a TEMPEST truck parked outside my house, what can it find out? Or is there a telescreen in my bedroom, too?
Well, first things first neither Castro nor the Sandinistas were fighting an “occupying army”. In both cases they were figthing native government forces. But if your point was that a small band of rebels can defeat a bigger army by force of will or whatever then in both these cases you’re wrong as well. In both Cuba and Nicaragua the government forces essentially stopped fighting when the political rulers left the country, in other words the organized army had no more incentive to fight, so they stopped.