For the love of God, please, do not read anything Poole has written, except for "The Last 100 Yards."Originally Posted by Surferbeetle
Unless, of course, you're interested in half-truths and fiction, that is....
For the love of God, please, do not read anything Poole has written, except for "The Last 100 Yards."
Unless, of course, you're interested in half-truths and fiction, that is....
Gotta jump in here and second this. H John Poole's "The Last 100 Yards" is excellent, and his "One more Bridge To Cross" is also worth a read.
His other stuff leave me cold. There are some excellent points, and facts, but the rest just has no supporting basis I can make sense of.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Couple of sources to look into...
if you haven't already.
http://www.counterinsurgencylibrary.org/
Abu Muqwama maintains both a Counterinsurgency Reading List and a Counterinsurgency Book Club link.
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
SWJ will know it has achieved relevance when captured insurgents cite to it as a source for their training.
BL, the entire WWW is the source of insurgent TTPs and information. Frustrated targeteers would love to be able to draw some "state" connection, to show that these guys are working for some third party that they can actually target. But you can't go blow up the SWJ server just because bad guys access it; and you shouldn't bomb a sovereign nation just because bad guys are transiting it or using it as sanctuary. You can however go ask the SWJ to take down their site, or go ask that HN take appropriate steps to shut down the sanctuary problem. Only once this fails do you start looking at other options.
Agreed. However, does this really belong here???
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