http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Birds-Prey-Counterinsurgency-Counterterrorism/dp/0803216025Read this thesis paper on CounterInsurgency and CounterTerrorism:
http://www.hoosier84.com/phx.pdfIts a discussion in an academic level about Operation Phoenix by the CIA in Vietnam during the war.
Recommended, along with this thesis paper.
If one ever had to resist a Communist takeover of one?s country, there would be much to gained by studying and identifying not only key materiel and communications nodes of the conquering forces, but also the political infrastructure by which the Communists obtained and maintained power.
Resistance efforts could then be focused at not only interdicting directly and indirectly those nodes and human terrain elements, but causing the occupying regime to dedicate resources as force protection to their cadres which otherwise would be deployed against friendly forces.
Thanks be to Lee Greenwood, such a contingency can remain only the fantasy of alternate history majors.
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/operation-phoenix/
From his NYT obit, General Loan was quoted regarding the execution:
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?Mr. Loan later suggested that the execution had not been the rash act it might have appeared to be but had been carried out because a deputy commander he had ordered to shoot had hesitated. ?I think, ?Then I must do it,? ? he recounted. ?If you hesitate, if you didn?t do your duty, the men won?t follow you.?
Vo Suu, a cameraman at the scene for NBC News, recalled that immediately after the shooting the general had walked over to a reporter and said, ?These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me.?
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Resist.
Learn this stuff, think of how you could use it when SHTF. It sure is going to come in handy.
