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Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning dow

Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.

whoisjuan 7y ago
Hmm except that’s what the Colombian military has been doing for almost two decades. At least 10 head commanders of FARC were killed through out the years, when the Colombian Military found their location and bombed their camps deep in the jungle.
- remarkEon 7y ago
  I don't think that's an exception. That's exactly what I'm saying. These guys are the real deal.
  - whoisjuan 7y ago
    Gotcha. I read it differently. I thought you were saying that because they were hiding on the jungle it was hard to fight them. The Colombian Military is probably the best military when it comes to fighting in this terrain.
tibbydudeza 7y ago
I would have thought the Syrian rebels would have learned from the fate of the Tamil Tigers ... guy with the bigger stick wins.
- pjc50 7y ago
  That's one of the rare case where counterinsurgency warfare actually worked, after a few decades.
  - scumbert 7y ago
    It's hard to settle on a definition of "worked"
JamesSchriver 7y ago
What I find most fascinating about groups like the FARC and the IRA in Irland is that although on the face of it, they are categorized as being communist, in reality they are more "pragmatically "communist" due to circumstances that prevent alternatives and communism sounds like community, which is what we are about". Reality is that these types of groups are really just people who want to be free to rule their own affairs from of the yoke of the ruling class tyranny, and thereby make them unequivocally a natural simile to the US Revolutionaries, far from actual enemies of the USA. Things in the USA have devolved so much over the years, especially following the destruction of the real USA through the Civil War, that we now find ourselves in a situation where the US government is using the military assets of the state to fight people who are far far more like the American Revolutionaries were than not. The USA has essentially been co-opted over the decades, by the very systems that it fought against to gain its independence, which was essentially shattered to pieces by no later than the Civil War. But please, make a counter argument for why I am wrong and people struggling against an oppressive continent spanning power structure with a simple dream of regulating their own affairs free of oppression and dictate is not in line with what the American Revolutionaries were doing.
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whoisjuan 7y ago

Hmm except that’s what the Colombian military has been doing for almost two decades. At least 10 head commanders of FARC were killed through out the years, when the Colombian Military found their location and bombed their camps deep in the jungle.

remarkEon 7y ago
I don't think that's an exception. That's exactly what I'm saying. These guys are the real deal.
- whoisjuan 7y ago
  Gotcha. I read it differently. I thought you were saying that because they were hiding on the jungle it was hard to fight them. The Colombian Military is probably the best military when it comes to fighting in this terrain.

tibbydudeza 7y ago

I would have thought the Syrian rebels would have learned from the fate of the Tamil Tigers ... guy with the bigger stick wins.

pjc50 7y ago
That's one of the rare case where counterinsurgency warfare actually worked, after a few decades.
- scumbert 7y ago
  It's hard to settle on a definition of "worked"

JamesSchriver 7y ago

What I find most fascinating about groups like the FARC and the IRA in Irland is that although on the face of it, they are categorized as being communist, in reality they are more "pragmatically "communist" due to circumstances that prevent alternatives and communism sounds like community, which is what we are about". Reality is that these types of groups are really just people who want to be free to rule their own affairs from of the yoke of the ruling class tyranny, and thereby make them unequivocally a natural simile to the US Revolutionaries, far from actual enemies of the USA. Things in the USA have devolved so much over the years, especially following the destruction of the real USA through the Civil War, that we now find ourselves in a situation where the US government is using the military assets of the state to fight people who are far far more like the American Revolutionaries were than not. The USA has essentially been co-opted over the decades, by the very systems that it fought against to gain its independence, which was essentially shattered to pieces by no later than the Civil War. But please, make a counter argument for why I am wrong and people struggling against an oppressive continent spanning power structure with a simple dream of regulating their own affairs free of oppression and dictate is not in line with what the American Revolutionaries were doing.

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