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The decade of the nineteen-fifties is often cited as a dull period of time, lacking the excitement and colorful excesses of the following decade, the sixties. The sixties exploded with John Kennedy, the Beatles, recreational
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“The same official commented that the Pakistani army response took approximately 48 hours to mount, consisted of a two-battalion sweep of the area, commanded by a full colonel, and found nothing—a further example of the uselessness of large-scale sweep operations in this type of environment.”
― The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
― The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
“War with men is the same. It never ends until you kill all of your brave enemies, leaving only the weak and fearful. War cannot be won without genocide.”
― Ebola K 2
― Ebola K 2
“The constant life and death struggles of the Everglades violent and implacable, but not mean, never mean.”
― The Last Operation
― The Last Operation
“Insurgents tend to ride and manipulate a social wave of grievances, often legitimate ones, and they draw their fighting power from their connection to a mass base. This mass base is largely undetectable to counterinsurgents, since it lies below the surface and engages in no armed activity”
― Counterinsurgency
― Counterinsurgency
“Some terrorism analysts have seen the southern insurgency as an Islamic jihad that forms part of the broader network of AQ-linked extremism, with Islamic theology and religious aspirations (for shari’a law or an Islamic emirate) as a key motivator.73 This surface impression is reinforced by the facts that the violence is led by ustadz74 and other religious teachers, that the mosques and ponoh (Islamic schools) have a central role as recruiting and training bases, and that militants repeatedly state that they are fighting a legitimate defensive jihad against the encroachment of the kafir (infidel) Buddhist Thai government. Clearly, also, the AQ affiliate Jema’ah Islamiyah (JI) has used Thailand as a venue for key meetings, financial transfers, acquisition of forged documents,75 and money laundering and as a transit hub for operators.”
― The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
― The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
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