To be successful, insurgencies require... safe havens and funding...

I think the CIA and IC writ large work with the drug cartels, arms dealers, and human traffickers to ensure their existence and in doing so, they get to grift billions off the top to fund their insurgency of America. No congressional funding is required.

They only need the active support of a few enabling individuals (the top of the IC departments) ... but the passive acquiescence of a large proportion of the contested population will give a higher probability of success. (everyone not awake)

Too many people are still fast asleep. I honestly don't know what will wake them up. As much as the heat has been turned up it feels like it needs to be turned up much hotter to get the pot boiling and the frogs to jump out.

https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/119629.pdf

Irregular warfare is far more varied than conventional conflict: hence the importance of an intellectual framework that is coherent enough to provide guidance, and flexible enough to adapt to circumstances.

https://qalerts.app/?n=4008

Wow, thanks for bringing that to my attention. There were honestly so many drops that I haven't remembered them all. But this one feels SO relevant today.

IMPORTANT drop.

Wow. We must have the patience to persevere in what will necessarily prove long struggles.

That hits hard these days and we may only be in the beginning of the remedy.

"“...our efforts must be directed to the creation of local and national governmental structures that will serve their populations, and over time, replace the efforts o foreign partners…”