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Global Guerrillas

... of Fourth Generation Warfare , net war, swarming and global insurgency. For those of you who not routinely read the Global ... Robb calls this approach systems disruption, as the global guerrillas' fundamental strategy for bringing nation states to their knees. ...

Blog entry - May 25 2007 - 3:11pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... Revolution lasted 300 years, and this technology-led Global Revolution will take only 30-odd years. No single generation has ... recent). Instead, we looked at colonial tactics to pacify guerrillas in Malaya and failed counter-insurgency efforts in Vietnam. I'm ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War

... Plan. A victory in Afghanistan for the devotees of the Global Caliphate of bin Laden's dreams would be disastrous for us. Ignominious ... and uncertainty in Iraqi production caused by its global guerrillas, drove the timing of the price spike. It's a good demonstration ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

The Ugly Truth: Insurgencies are Brutal

... Threats and Future Wars (editor); Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency (editor); Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers (editor); ... loyalties. This provides numerous fault lines for guerrillas to exploit. •An occupation. The US occupation ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 6:17am - 72 comments

The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz to Victory

... This is explained not by any abstract open sourced 23G global theory, it's explained by the specific social context from which that ... is not that some 47G super-empowered openly sourced global guerrillas are threatening to shake the foundations of the global oil industry. ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments

Fear and Loathing in San Francisco: Population Control Measures and Cyber-Terror

... of technology, knowledge, and other means (money) to the global public contrasting with the increasing reliance on "smart" systems to ... there is a lot of potential to create "accidental [cyber] guerrillas" in scenarios such as these: http://bit.ly/oMqlQg . The ...

Blog entry - Aug 15 2011 - 8:02am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

The War Over COIN (Updated)

... we'd better get ready for these types of conflicts because guerrillas and terrorists aren't going away. Update: And from "on the ... order, and no state that is in any way vital to the global economy currently faces a serious threat from insurgency. There's ...

Blog entry - Sep 16 2010 - 11:47am - 59 comments - 0 attachments

One Tribe At A Time

... Qaeda, its sanctuaries and other anti-west terrorists with global reach? In the short term, it seems that the embed strategy must be done ... scouting, constabulary force, interpreters, guerrillas, counter-guerillas, rear area or flank security, guides, agents, ...

Blog entry - Oct 26 2009 - 8:49am - 57 comments - 0 attachments

One Tribe at a Time

... Qaeda, its sanctuaries and other anti-west terrorists with global reach? In the short term, it seems that the embed strategy must be done ... scouting, constabulary force, interpreters, guerrillas, counter-guerillas, rear area or flank security, guides, agents, ...

Blog entry - Dec 9 2009 - 5:32pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare on the Korean Peninsula

... mindset and a cult status. Thinking about insurgents/guerrillas as cults would be an advancement in special warfare thinking IMO. I ... to everything else. This gets back to my comments on global norms, they seem to be established by the media, and countries integrated into the global economy can't readily ignore them, which means the mass starvation issue ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 7:17pm - 54 comments