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I was one of CSA's "LIC" guys back in the 80s when John T, Max Mainwaring, Bill Olsen and others were doing their work. And when there were proxy wars raging in the developing world.

The issue is the definition of "low intensity". As one of my former bosses pointed out, if you're an infantry platoon leader who just sprung an ambush on the lead element of a main force NVA regiment, your conflict is about to become anything but low intensity.

At the other end of the spectrum, President Duarte of El Sal, speaking at NDU made the point that the Salvadoran insurgency was low intensity for the US because if the FMLN prevailed, life in the US goes on as usual, whereas the gov't of ES was in fact playing for all the marbles. Not very low intensity for them.