marct, I was very serious. I have never seen or heard of it done in a COIN type war game, but the FBI has several War projects on terrorism/counter-terrorism that are doing exactly that. The moment you begin to "train" a red team or use "normal" people you have lost that enemy mindset in my opinion. That is why LE spends so much time interviewing actual criminals of all types, their thought processes are completely different. Which is also why captured insurgent leaders that would cooperate (for money or amnesty) would be extremely valuable. My experience with bad people of all types is once they are caught and decide to cooperate they talk their heads off just to show how good they are and how easily they think they can beat the US.

You and Tom Odom would be better on our side in thinking up ways to counter them. My 2 cents anyway.