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SWJ Blog post - Buying Out the Insurgency – Re-evaluating the Community De-Weaponization Initiative in Iraq by Malcolm Nance.



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If the concept could actually work in the real world, then I would agree that it would be cheaper to “buy out the insurgency.” It would appear that this tactic could be viable if the weapons supply were truly a closed system. I strongly suspect that paying top dollar would encourage entrepreneurs to import more weapons into the market thus creating a virtually unlimited supply.