I’m not even subscribed to Darksnovia, but this showed up in my recommendations. I don’t know enough about Star Trek or Gundam to comment. I’m more interested in the Star Wars comparison, anyway.
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In the Star Wars universe, the Rebel insurgency conducts covert operations on Imperial garrison worlds, utilizing a stateless strategy in conjunction with wolfpack-guerrilla warfare against the Imperial fleet throughout the galaxy. Capital ships are portrayed as having no place in the Rebellion, as they are described as expensive to build, maintain, and to keep fully crewed. The Rebellion is portrayed as far too limited in both manpower and resources to justify putting so much of both into a giant target. The Galactic Empire, on the other hand, is portrayed as capable of always fielding greater numbers and greater firepower. Being able to hit high-valued targets and get out is therefore depicted as being much more important to the Empire. While the Empire labels all dissenters and rebels as extremists and terrorists in Imperial propaganda, the Alliance is depicted and portrayed in various Star Wars media as a group of resilient freedom fighters, based on tolerance, self-empowerment, and hope for a better future using insurgency weapons and tactics.
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The Real History That Inspired ‘Star Wars’
The guerilla war waged by the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire mirrored the battle between an insurgent force and a global superpower that was playing out in Vietnam as Lucas wrote Star Wars.
The filmmaker, who was originally set to direct the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now in the early 1970s before moving on to Star Wars, said in an audio commentary on the 2004 re-release of Return of the Jedi that the Viet Cong served as his inspiration for the furry forest-dwelling Ewoks, who were able to defeat a vastly superior opponent in spite of their primitive weapons. As William J. Astore writes in Star Wars and History, both the Viet Cong and Ewoks were well-served by their “superior knowledge of the local terrain and an ability to blend into that terrain.”
No, the US Military Isn’t the Rebel Alliance from ‘Star Wars’
But as any fan of “Star Wars” knows, this characterization doesn’t really make sense. In a 2018 conversation with James Cameron, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas noted that while he was initially inspired by rebellions like the American Revolution to create the political dynamics and themes of the film franchise, America had gradually morphed into its own form of “empire” by the time the Vietnam War broke out. Indeed, the victory of the Ewoks as a small group using asymmetric warfare over the highly organized Galactic Empire in “Return of the JedI” was an explicit allegory for the Viet Cong’s success against the U.S. military during the conflict.
“The irony is that, in both of those, the little guys won. The highly technical empire — the English Empire, the American Empire — lost,” Lucas told Cameron. “That was the whole point.”
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