Enabling [inaudible] its minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. The Water Treatment plants. Im not sure why we were doing it. I think its something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. If you give them cool stuff, they will like. You a. If you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. And so if you build stuff inside the city but dont control the city, guess what, they will claim it. But the larger problem is if you dont have security, it doesnt matter how much people like you. Theyre not going to come over to your side if they get killed for doing it. Theyre not suicidal. Theyre not going commit suicide because they love a Water Treatment plant. So you have to have basic security. And to establish basic security. You have to have men with guns on the street 247. Its the es
Right strategy . Thereve been many approaches but essentially they come down to what i would call what is known today as populationcentric counterinsurgency or hearts and minds. There was kind of a controlled experiment run by to the great nations of europe, britain and france in the 1950s to show which of these approaches is more successful because britain and france were each fighting counterinsurgency is an different colonies on different sides of the world. The french were fighting in algeria from 1954 to 1962. The british were fighting in malaya from 1948 to 1960s and they adopted very different methods of fighting with the french exemplifying the approach in the british applying the british if you want to find out one good way of doing it is by simply renting this wonderful movie the battle of algiers which i would recommend to anybody interested in what happened in algeria because its actually pretty accurate in what it depicts is what happened in 1957 when the french try to bre
Closer than it does now. What is now washington as you walk that end, that was the neck as you come and from now the south bend into boston. This was an island and one of dozens of islands that occupy gigantic boston harbor. They had ships scattered throughout the harbor in strategic areas and cap the entrance opens so that they could get revisions whether they be from england or from canada. This meant even though they were completely surrounded by land boston as it british occupy a garrison is going to starve. So it became a stalemate that then erupted into violence in the battle of bunker hill in june 1775. And this was a battle like none other. It was a terrifying cater for those not only living in boston but in towns around because all of the roofs of boston were filled with people watching as more than 2000 british regulars made their way across the harbor into the Charles River to the charles town financial and began the assault that would erupt into the battle of bunker hill. S
Any of that at all whereas i tend to try to balance might Corporate Media with independent review will like democracy now and you hear all the time on democracy now about soldiers refusing to deploy. I just wondered if you saw any signs of that . Thanks. Thats a great question. The short answer somewhat tellingly is i think in my experience at fort hood and among the folks that i knew there, the short answer is basically no. I had one friend who is involved with a relatively oriented Veterans Advocacy Group and certainly there is in this country a really lively antiwar Veterans Movement made up of a bunch of different organizations doing work that is politically important for those folks and also personally important for a lot of them. One of the things that was really interesting and striking to me in my work was the conventional language that we use and the civilian public being prowar, being antiwar whether in principle in general or with regard to specific policy decisions. Those a
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