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Once a revolutionary insurgency reaches a tipping point, as Bernard Fall noted, "it is difficult to suppress with the help of military specialists alone - particularly foreign specialists."Good thing we have so many civilian political specialists!
I remember the day I mentioned Fall's Hell in a Very Small Place to a HQ USSOCOM colleague in the Knowledge and Futures Directorate. He'd never heard of it. Later I gave him a copy of Galula. He never got around to reading it.
ReplyDeleteNo, you don't suck at blogging. Even your throw away posts are kind of funny. (Blogging can be a total drag after some time. I don't know how the regulars do it year in and year out. Some people are just compelled to write, I guess.)
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