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2013-01-19 Terror Networks
The Guerrilla Myth
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Posted by tipper 2013-01-19 15:42|| || Front Page|| [336096 views ]  Top

#1 http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2006/0406/joes/joes_counterins.html
Posted by Mike Ramsey 2013-01-19 17:15||   2013-01-19 17:15|| Front Page Top

#2 "28. Whatever else you do, keep the initiative. In counterinsurgency, the initiative is everything. If the enemy is reacting to you, you control the environment. Provided you mobilize the population, you will win. If you are reacting to the enemy—even if you are killing or capturing him in large numbers—then he is controlling the environment and you will eventually lose. In counterinsurgency, the enemy initiates most attacks, targets you unexpectedly and withdraws too fast for you to react. Do not be drawn into purely reactive operations: focus on the population, build your own solution, further your game plan and fight the enemy only when he gets in the way. This gains and keep the initiative."

http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/iosphere/iosphere_summer06_kilcullen.pdf

Sun Tzu could not have said it better.
Posted by Mike Ramsey 2013-01-19 18:33||   2013-01-19 18:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately, we have a military leadership more concern with banishing naughty pictures and blue jokes than destroying the enemy.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-01-19 20:56||   2013-01-19 20:56|| Front Page Top

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