Monday, May 23, 2016

DIY Insurgency

What happens when the capabilities that we give to special operators can instead be deployed by amateurs?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

“Fast and Furious”

The deadly-but-forgotten government gun-running scandal known as “Fast and Furious” has lain dormant for years, thanks to White House stonewalling and media compliance. But newly uncovered e-mails have reopened the case, exposing the anatomy of a coverup by an administration that promised to be the most transparent in history.

A federal judge has forced the release of more than 20,000 pages of emails and memos previously locked up under President Obama’s phony executive-privilege claim. A preliminary review shows top Obama officials deliberately obstructing congressional probes into the border gun-running operation.

Fast and Furious was a Justice Department program that allowed assault weapons — including .50-caliber rifles powerful enough to take down a helicopter — to be sold to Mexican drug cartels allegedly as a way to track them. But internal documents later revealed the real goal was to gin up a crisis requiring a crackdown on guns in America. Fast and Furious was merely a pretext for imposing stricter gun laws.

http://nypost.com/2016/05/21/the-scandal-in-washington-no-one-is-talking-about/

Anonymous said...

Saudi Press: U.S. Blew Up World Trade Center To Create ‘War On Terror’

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/05/22/saudi-press-u-s-blew-up-world-trade-center-to-create-war-on-terror/

Chiu ChunLing said...

What we can predict is nothing compared to what we cannot predict. By its nature, what is unpredictable will look vastly different from what we have predicted.

Even when we should have predicted it.

Anonymous said...

Gun-Grabbers Set Their Sights On Lego “Weaponry”…

http://www.weaselzippers.us/273055-gun-grabbers-set-their-sights-on-lego-weaponry/

Jonathan H said...

Technology in war moves both faster and slower than we expect it to, and almost always in ways we don't expect.
The article's example of a rapidly moving insurgency with high tech gadgets pre-supposes an organized underground movement connected with a government in exile, with unmonitored communications and transport; these are a combination that no autocracy worth its salt lets happen.
The hardware ideas are nice (tiny UAVs, 3D printing, mesh networks, etc) but are impractical outside of a VERY high tech (i.e. wealthy) society. It would be much more likely to see some technology combined with traditional methods like we are seeing in Syria where occasional tech supplements traditional methods but doesn't replace it.

B-4 said...

If high tech was the be all, please explain to me the ways of Vietnam and, the war on cave dwellers that has lasted 15+ years. Or was/is it just about money/labor for high Tech? B-4

Anonymous said...

Computers and most modern gadgets require electricity, the first thing a dedicated insurgency would go after is the electrical grid, the grid in this country is hugely vulnerable! Large transformers are dinosaurs, their replacement would take aleast two years to build and they'd have to be shipped from Europe

Anonymous said...

The first rule of insurgency is "don't hurt your people." Attacking the "grid" both hurts your people and creates vulnerabilities that the enemies of this country AND HER PEOPLE, need and can use against them.

Anonymous said...

Nothing makes global elite TPTB or the Obama administration more fearful than any element of the population that can successfully tell them to go phuck themselves, h4nce the ci ilian disarmament agendas. There i said it for all you people who absolutely will not.

Sign me, Neal Jensen
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Anonymous said...

David slew Goliath with but a sling and a stone. King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans made the Persians pay dearly for their invasion. We, the American Riflemen, will likewise blacken the adversary's eye something awful. because the internet and all the infrastructure that serves Them is also the Achillies heel that we will exploit to break them. My 2 cents. - The Bellevue Headhunter