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## Genealogy
-* Mass-scale warfare
- * MAD
- * Massive retaliation
- * Game theory
- * Systems analisys
- * Nuclear war
-
-* Counterinsurgency
- * Modern warfare
- * Unconventional, counter-guerrila
- * Special Ops
- * Surgical operations
-
-* Mao's “Eight Points of Attention” plus two principles:
- 1. Talk to people politely.
- 2. Observe fair dealing in all business transactions.
- 3. Return everything borrowed from the people.
- 4. Pay for anything damaged.
- 5. Do not beat or scold the people.
- 6. Do not damage crops.
- 7. Do not molest women.
- 8. Do not ill-treat prisoners-of-war. 6
+### Mass-scale warfare
+
+* MAD
+* Massive retaliation
+* Game theory
+* Systems analisys
+* Nuclear war
+
+### Counterinsurgency
+
+* Modern warfare
+* Unconventional, counter-guerrila
+* Special Ops
+* Surgical operations
+
+### Mao's “Eight Points of Attention” plus two principles
+
+1. Talk to people politely.
+2. Observe fair dealing in all business transactions.
+3. Return everything borrowed from the people.
+4. Pay for anything damaged.
+5. Do not beat or scold the people.
+6. Do not damage crops.
+7. Do not molest women.
+8. Do not ill-treat prisoners-of-war.
Two other principles were central to Mao’s revolutionary doctrine: first, the
importance of having a unified political and military power structure that
@@ -39,21 +42,25 @@
explained, “proper psychological measures could create and maintain ideological
cohesion among fighters and their civilian supporters.” 7
-* Paret's (1960) tasks of “counterguerrilla action”:
- 1. The military defeat of the guerrilla forces.
- 2. The separation of the guerrilla from the population.
- 3. The reestablishment of governmental authority and the development of a viable social order.
-
-* Petraeus: 3 key pillars:
- 1. "The first is that the most important struggle is over the population."
- 2. "Allegiance of the masses can only be secured
- by separating the small revolutionary minority from the passive majority, and by
- isolating, containing, and ultimately eliminating the active minority. In his
- accompanying guidelines,"
- 3. "Success turns on collecting information on
- everyone in the population. Total information is essential to properly distinguish
- friend from foe and then extract the revolutionary minority. It is intelligence—
- total information awareness—that renders the counterinsurgency possible."
+### Paret's (1960) tasks of “counterguerrilla action”
+
+1. The military defeat of the guerrilla forces.
+2. The separation of the guerrilla from the population.
+3. The reestablishment of governmental authority and the development of a viable social order.
+
+### Petraeus: 3 key pillars
+
+1. "The first is that the most important struggle is over the population."
+
+2. "Allegiance of the masses can only be secured
+ by separating the small revolutionary minority from the passive majority, and by
+ isolating, containing, and ultimately eliminating the active minority. In his
+ accompanying guidelines,"
+
+3. "Success turns on collecting information on
+ everyone in the population. Total information is essential to properly distinguish
+ friend from foe and then extract the revolutionary minority. It is intelligence—
+ total information awareness—that renders the counterinsurgency possible."
## Excerpts