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| The COIN Racket and Government Supremacism |
| 2015-10-31 |
| Author Bill Buppert makes a cogent observation that counter insurgencies tend to fail because they substitute police states for real solutions to insurgencies. From TFA: Using Occam’s Razor, let’s try to distill the object of COIN: to neutralize and/or destroy any armed resistance to an existing government, usually a state that has been installed by a Western or Asian hegemonic power. External involvement of other countries meddling in the COIN efforts of a domestic government usually reveals the “client-state” relationship at its most basic level. One is hard-pressed to find any historical involvement in these efforts since 1893 (Hawaii) on the part of the US wherein the aggrieved state wasn’t created and vetted by the West by design. Porch does a splendid job destroying one of the primary memes that animates much of the COIN glad-handing and self-congratulatory Goebbels-gargling that passes for rational discourse in the West; the observation that the Brits wrote the book on effective COIN in modern applications usually citing the “success” in Malaya or lesser efforts like Aden or Oman. It’s all rubbish. The British pioneered concentration camps during the Boer Wars (the Germans would do the same in Namibia in 1904-07) which may have provided them the idea to float a police state over a country ravaged by insurgency and call it good. The very notion of a concentration camp demands a fairly sophisticated bureaucratic apparatus to build them, maintain them and most tragically of all, fill them. All of which require police state methodologies that would put a smile on any Western bureaucrat’s face. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Quite excellent Badanov! Been a while since I've seen this particular factoid linked to modern times and events: "The British pioneered concentration camps during the Boer Wars (the Germans would do the same in Namibia in 1904-07) which may have provided them the idea to float a police state over a country ravaged by insurgency and call it good. The very notion of a concentration camp demands a fairly sophisticated bureaucratic apparatus to build them, maintain them and most tragically of all, fill them. All of which require police state methodologies that would put a smile on any Western bureaucrat’s face." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-10-31 09:22 |
| #1 If only we had the 'right people' running things. Why did the director of the CIA get a medal at his retirement rather than fired the next day after 9/11 like Kimmel and Short after 7/12? Pour Encourager Les Autres! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-31 09:11 |