I just bought this book by Amnesty International researcher, Michael McClintock which is volume 1 out of 4 or 5 of a massive study of US counter-insurgency/"low intensity warfare" doctrine. Right now Im on page 30..
I have a question Horhey, How can people be an insurgent in their own homeland? For the life of me, I have mulled over this idea of labeling opposition forces who are fighting against foreign invasion, be it through actual warfare or through propaganda, teaching or other forms of resistance. It would stand to reason that the said foreign forces of various types are the actual insurgents.
In American imperial culture, the assumption is that the US owns the world so it's forces cant be foreign fighters by definition. Resisting US attack is also denounced as "aggression" or terrorism. Just as we were defending ourselves against aggression in Vietnam and so on. These are just the basic assumptions in mainstreem discussion.
