![]() ![]() INSKEEP: Now, the American revolutionaries eventually did form a regular army. And, in fact, many of the strategies which the American rebels used against the British are similar in many ways to the strategies now being used against us around the world. And, of course, in our revolution, we were the insurgents and the British were the role of the counterinsurgency. MAX BOOT: Today, we're used to having Americans soldiers be the forces of the government. ![]() The historian Max boot cannot help but notice the irony. The British were the world's policeman - smart and technologically advanced - while the Americans were the insurgents. Barely trained American militiamen shot the elite British force to pieces. In 1775, a Boston silversmith rode to warn Americans colonists that British troops were on the way. That's the start of a poem that tells a story almost every American kid learns in some form. (Reading) Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
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