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Post by avordvet on Jun 7, 2013 4:50:21 GMT -5
IEDs...the asymetric tool of the underdog that won't go away06 June 2013 War is politics by other means. This is attributed to General Clausewitz, and I believe it is true. I also believe that "Political Power grows from the barrel of a gun" as spoken by Mao Zedong is also true. In a successful revolution the underdog wins. The American Revolution, the Soviet Revolution, the Chinese Revolution. In a coup the stronger actor wins. Understanding that there is no government, no entity, so strong that it is unbeatable is the first step in understanding that "political power grows from the barrel of a gun" and that revolutionary war is truly politics by other means. JFK spoke, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." So how does the underdog make war? By getting maximum effect for minimum effort. Which brings us to IEDs. randomthoughtsandguns.blogspot.com/2013/06/iedsthe-asymetric-tool-of-underdog-that.html
Even the mighty MRAP has fallen prey...
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Post by watchful on Jun 7, 2013 7:42:36 GMT -5
If you look carefully at the above quoted minds they each reached the same point by different paths. If you go to their times you will find that the ability of the underdog to perform war without harming the non-involved peoples was also critical in their successes and failures. If it costs 4 passer-by's to destroy that vehicle can it be claimed with a pure heart to be worth it? By the families of the passer-by's?! Today we have time to begin to, if not create, then by stockpile and cache' smart devices that can be selectively used against any enemy in our towns and cities. Yet we continue to stockpile ammo and pretty clothes. The militias of Baghdad and Kabul have kept our forces in highly restrictive areas not because they are more powerful than we are, but because the people support them. The people support them because they do what every person in every neighborhood wants: They let them live their lives and make a living. The minimal intrusions of the military into the neighborhoods to search for what everyone has is accepted as an alternative to fighting in the streets. Have we developed plans of the same kind for our people? Just in case!
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Post by hefferman1 on Jun 7, 2013 9:39:21 GMT -5
No Government can long exist without the willing acceptance of the people.
In other words we get the government we are willing to accept.
Going a little farther with this thought, no revolution can long exist unless it has the support of the people.
The insurgents were winning in Iraq, until they started getting the people mad at them by killing too many innocent people.
When the people turned against them and started supporting telling where the enemy was hiding and what they were doing, that is when the war turned.
It works the same way in the political theater of war.
We have to have the moral high ground, and we have to work with the people, or we stand no chance of getting the people to support a re-establishment of a Constitutional form of government.
Thank God the collectivist communist muslims in Mordor are helping to turn the American People against them.
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