Reply #13: Many of you are operating on an incomplete assumption/recollection, tho. [View All]

[TankLV]

The brilliance of Gandhi is that he would all that was available to him - peaceful resistance when that was appropriate and the sword when that was appropriate. He was a brilliant strategist.

I don't have all the info at my fingertips, but when needed, he could mobilize an army, such as evidenced as his walk across India that accumulated millions as he went.

Then there was the famous hunger strike, at the opposite end of his strategies.

The man would use the appropriate method of resistance to meet the object of that resistance.

That he is most remembered for his peaceful resistance is a mark of the greatness of the man, and for the most powerful of his strategies.