Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Air Power 1914-2019 - How to rule the Sky" video.

Insurgents, guerilla fighters, call them whatever you like, rely on support from a civilian population and civilian production. They can keep going as long as there are farmers plying their trade in the land. The farmers doesn't necessarily have to be friendly towards the insurgents, since the insurgents can always just take crops from farmers to help the insurgent war effort. I think a necessary aspect to combating insurgent threat is to compel farmers to relocated and either secure or destroy their farmland. Strategically speaking, there has to be a budget for compensating farmers for their losses in a campaign against insurgents. Either just by buying them out of their land, or at least guarantee that their property rights will be restored after the war is over. Insurgents rarely ever farm themselves. So even just getting farmers to leave their farms and not growing crops would damage the war effort for the insurgents.
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@nottoday3817 1. You move them to refugee camps, temporarily. 2. It stands to reason that farms that feed guerilla insurgents are not supplying your own population with any substantial amount of food as it is. So those particular farms are already lost. Also to safeguard against the misuse of grown food: that's what food banks and depots are for. 3. No, they can't just buy or capture food en-gross. If insurgents in the past could, they wouldn't have to resort to gathering support from or strong arm farmers into giving them food. Also, proper supply depots are defensible structures. A guerilla force is not just waltzing in there taking whatever they feel like without opposition.
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