I spent a fair amount of my 'pondering-time' of the past week...looking over insurgencies in general. I limited to US events, but came to realize....across the globe...since 2000...there are hundreds of insurgency operations and put-down events. So six observations:
First, most insurgency operations start off 'small' (limited) and you can easily note that if some official or Governor does not start reacting...it grows over a very quick period of time (say a week).
Second, martyr victims are a key note of the success of any given insurgency.
Third, outside manipulation (planning) since the 1990s....is a key part of insurgency creation and sustainment.
Fourth, in most cases....fed-help was not called upon...until you get to the past 30-odd years.
Fifth, of the 3 lists I made....insurgencies since 1800....if I had really opened up every single event within the US....I think I could have noted more than 300 insurgency operations. It is fairly common.
Sixth and final....just my humble belief...around 80-percent of the start-up's of insurgency...have a legit reason to exist, and the authorities refused to step in and clean up the mess (early on).
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