Guevara's army suffered from a scarcity of competent leadership and lack of organization According to his writings his group was continually outmaneuvered by the five commando mercenaries that he refers to as guardsmen He says in that in that book. I was informed that a large number of guardsmen were outflanking us from the hills Only one unit did honor to our army and resisted for another hour The situation is difficult in that our troops are collections of armed men without the slightest discipline and without fighting spirit And you go into some of that, but that's another just awesome piece You know the cubans were willing to go out and fight wherever they could wherever they could against communism and