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"Great moments in the history of counter-insurgency warfare:"

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Anonymous Peter said...

Facing a growing insurgency in Iraq, the White House is sending military recruiters to the next Little People of America convention.

4/12/07, 6:20 AM

Anonymous green mamba said...

Somehow I don't think a pygmy surge is on the neocon agenda...

4/12/07, 9:12 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mobuto lost though. And the Congo is an even bigger mess than it was before him.

There are not any gimmicks, and a quick look around:

Algeria, more bombing from the resurgent Group for Preaching and Combat.
Thailand, more bombings and atrocities from the Muslims in the South, targeting Buddhists of course.
Philippines, same except for targeting Christians.
Chechnya, fighting continues.
Sri Lanks, an oddity because is it's Tamils vs. Sinhalese, neither of whom are Muslim ...

All show it's hard to crush guerilla warfare if you don't have:

*A strong state.
*The will to use the strength.

China has dealt with insurgencies in Tibet and also in XianXing province and their other Western provinces by ... importing millions of Han Chinese, obliterating the local language, and shooting anyone who looks like a guerilla/terrorist. This hasn't erased all attempts at separatism and guerilla warfare, but it has ratcheted it down quite a bit.

Insurgencies are a war of the people, so the solution is: destroy the people. Overwhelm them with settlers, destroy their culture/language/marriage-tribal bonds/religion, ruthlessly kill young insurgents, and it works.

This requires however a strong state and sustained strong leadership both of which are in short supply.

Russia has essentially outsourced it's anti-guerrilla campaign to Chechens it bought, who are erasing their former comrades to become the absolute rulers. But it's an interim solution at best.

Algeria won't have peace until it turns into Yemen or Sudan, or a place like North Korea. Thailand won't have any peace until the majority Buddhists simply wipe out the Muslims in the South.

The central fallacy of modern Westerners is to think that most people are like middle class office workers. Most assuredly they are not.

4/12/07, 1:22 PM

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