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Article  To: Travis McGee This is an interesting scenario.
Having worked CT and counterinsurgency for the U.S. government
for more than a long weekend, here's my key takeaways on this.
BLUF, the Colonel has imagined himself a 'perfect storm' for the
DHS to sail to glory upon, without realizing that his ship is
full of holes.   Here’s the very, very first mistake. The author
unintentional sets up a real bad guy for the insurgency, and
creates a false one that ignores their actual motivations. The
root cause of the ‘insurrection’ is the economic profligacy of
the government. While for the sake of lazy writing the author
then adds on a spurious charge of racism (because that sells
better) in reality, this amounts to the first mistake in
intelligence collection, which is to not understand the motives
of your opponent. This renders any predictive analysis
compromised, and leads to a damaged course of action assessment.
For instance:   So, what the aut