Organized marauders, a serious thorn in the back of regular armies

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Originally Posted by Sanjuro

Without aviation units, or sufficient fuel to mount a pursuit, perhaps an effective defence for an area against marauders is to copy Alfred the Great's defence of Wessex against the Vikings:
Starting from a defended core, each outlying township is fortified in turn (Alfred called them burhs) to the extent that each can defend themselves in the short term; reinforcements can be called from the neighbouring burhs while the defenders keep the marauders busy. This sort of static defence would be almost useless against a modern army, but against lightly armed marauders (who would probably be unwilling to take serious losses) it might work.

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

That's pretty much how I understand the "cantonment" system to work.

True, but Sanjuro's description seemed to imply the co-opting of civilian militias into the regional defense systems as well. At least for NATO forces, this is a somewhat novel concept. I haven't really seen this in any of the campaigns that I've been a part of (or an audience to). As for the WTO, the ORMO (of T2K) is already an integral part of local defenses in Poland.