Why resistance movements need conventional support

The book passage distinguishes clandestine survival from military results that alter a campaign. Soviet partisans succeeded in close relationship with the advancing Red Army, while the Warsaw Uprising and the Vercors rising show how isolated resistance could be crushed by a ruthless opponent. Supply alone was not enough if a force remained inactive or lacked a conventional operation to exploit its work. The same test applies to T. E. Lawrence: the Arab Revolt assisted Edmund Allenby's campaign but did not independently defeat the Ottoman forces in the theatre. These examples provide a concrete framework for judging claims that irregular forces can win a major war cheaply.