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comradeship between men and officers, their insep- arable links with the people, and voluntary military discipline -- these are politico-ideolog- ical superiority peculiar to a people's army, a revolutionary army. As the history of revolution- ary wars shows, a revolutionary army which is in firm politico-ideological readiness, though armed with inferior weapons, can fight and defeat an enemy equipped with the latest arms. Indeed, politico-ideological superiority is the essential merit of revolutionary armed forces and the source of their invincibility. It is imperative, therefore, to knit the army closely from a politico-ideological point of view and steadily raise its politico-ideological level and ensure that imperialist armies of aggression are defeated by the strength of the politico- ideological superiority of the revolutionary people's armed forces. (OJI 52-53) James Connolly: It means a complete overhauling and remodelling of all the training and instruction hitherto given to those corps. It means that the corps shall be taught how to act and fight when acting against an enemy equipped with superior weapons, instead of all teaching being based upon the ideas of British military text books which always presume an equality of weapons, or even a superiority upon the British side. It means that much that has been taught will be worse than useless if acted upon, as such teaching presupposed that the corps receiving instructions were to form part of a regular army in the field, an army properly sup- ported and reinforced by complete arms of the service. The resistance to the Militia Ballot Act must of necessity take the form of insurrect- ionary warfare, if the resisters are determined 40