War as a natural event - Human Terrain Aplications

[davidbfpo]

I throw this out for general consideration. We define war as a political act, but war can exist without politics, at least in our nearest evolutionary relatives.

When we look at insurgency do we place too much emphasis on the political players and not enough on the aspects of society that create the conditions for war.

Moderator - I am sure we touched on this before, but I did not find it.

There is a large thread 'Human Terrain & Anthropology' dating back to 2007, with 990 posts and 161k views. Your themes may have appeared there:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=4093

Anyway no harm in raising these points here.