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diff --git a/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md b/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md index 9ea5e1b..cd50051 100644 --- a/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md +++ b/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md @@ -1165,3 +1165,29 @@ Counterinsurgency goes domestic: eradicate them, initially through police arrests, then through criminal prosecutions (for instance, of the New York 21) and justified homicides [...] and ultimately by fomenting conflict and divisiveness within the party + + [...] + + The linchpin of a domesticated counterinsurgency is to bring total + information awareness home. Just as it was developed abroad, it is total + surveillance alone that makes it possible to distinguish the active minority on + domestic soil from the passive masses of Americans. A fully transparent + population is the first requisite of the counterinsurgency method. In General + Petraeus’s field manual, it received a full chapter early on, “Intelligence in + Counterinsurgency,” with a pithy and poignant epigraph: “Everything good that + happens seems to come from good intelligence.” And as the manual began, so it + ended, with the following simple mantra: “The ultimate success or failure of the + [counterinsurgency] mission depends on the effectiveness of the intelligence effort." + + [...] + + American is a potential insurgent. + Constant vigilance of the American population is necessary—hand in hand + with the appearance of trust. Appearances are vital. A domesticated + counterinsurgency must suspect everyone in the population, but not let it be + known. This posture, developed in counterinsurgency theory decades ago, was at + the core of the paradigm. David Galula had refined it to a witty statement he + would tell his soldiers in Algeria: “One cannot catch a fly with vinegar. My rules + are: outwardly you must treat every civilian as a friend; inwardly you must + consider him as a rebel ally until you have positive proof to the contrary.” 2 This + mantra has become the rule today—at home. |