Neighborhood Message Boards in Baghdad

[CPT Holzbach]

It's too bad they have to teach each other. If we had been in those neighborhoods, living there, organizing the people, registering weapons, training them to police their own neighborhoods, building REAL rapport and trust, perhaps we would be in a better situation then we currently are. I say good for them. The Iraqi police cant be trusted, and our senior leadership is unwilling to really get our hands dirty with the people. So now they'll take care of themselves. And in the end, align themselves with organizations like the militias and terrorist groups. Instead of with the Iraqi government and the Coalition forces. This is a tactical success that is on the fast track to strategic failure.

[Bill Moore]

SWJED,

Thanks for this post, I think it is an excellent example of 4th generation warfare methodology. This particular group (and several others) is using the net (effectively?) to mobilize numerous independent actors. It is almost like swarming. This is grass roots IO, networking, adhoc nets, adhoc organization, and chaos theory at work. This isn't your father's insurgency or civil war.