11.08.2014 - 19:24 [ Truthout ]

Communal Lands: Theater of Operations for the Counterinsurgency

According to the May 2014 publication of the Army Manual of the United States (FM-3-24, MCWP-3-33.5), which outlines the strategic ways to break up any type of insurgency, in the section titled „Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies,“ when certain elements within the population grow dissatisfied with the status quo and are willing to fight to change conditions to be in their favor, using both violent and nonviolent means to effect change in the prevailing authority, these are the conditions that lead to insurgencies.