I think the decision to bash on the value of militia is also silly. Yes, they weren’t fantastic in the role of going up against British light foot. Neither were World War II guerillas or any non-conventional armed force when going up against a conventional armed force. Thats a total misuse of the forces and where they work. Where the militia shines in the American revolution are at the battle of Bunker hill, when they defended a fixed and well entrenched position that didn’t involve line combat, but mainly in harassment, ambushes, etc like the Swamp Foxes actions. The militia couldn’t have won the war on their own, but if the military was organized at that time along purely professional lines, and only fought regular warfare, America would have been easily crushed. The militia ensured that the British had threats literally everywhere, had to garrison absolutely everywhere, had their supply lines fucked up and supply stolen and had to deal with an enemy that meant everywhere they went that farmer or townsman might be back tomorrow to shoot at him while he isn’t suspecting anything.