User blog comment:Tybaltcapulet/26th of July Movement vs. Khmer Rouge/@comment-36053634-20180806085454/@comment-35680048-20180807023848

The Movement HUMILIATED their ruling government in the battle of LA Plata capturing over 200 Cuban soldiers while being severely outnumbered. This was the result of Castro utilizing guerilla warfare perfectly. The Khmer Rouge were a bunch of unintelligent peasants who slaughtered some citizens. M-26-7 certainly did not have uniform tactics as they were while the Khmer Rouge literally had no real tactics to speak of. I can't explain it better than EA can but I would suggest checking the Battle of LA Plata out to get a better understanding. And all of those ambushes you described have one thing in common (Except for the 6th grader of course). It's that these men were at least in some way skilled and organized enough to repel their attackers. I think can be agreed that the Khmer Rouge as said like 10 times are really incapable of organizing and pulling off a defensive/ambush effectively.

Anyways sorry for my long winded speech just wanted to clarify some things.