diff options
| author | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2019-11-12 21:03:09 -0300 | 
|---|---|---|
| committer | Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net> | 2019-11-12 21:03:09 -0300 | 
| commit | 1d7c51258d903e6a764f7fd6fd90f18c15ff0063 (patch) | |
| tree | 14d4677b1035ecc563b105b3759e5f43fd66c47d | |
| parent | b8625b541fa215239a027b62c74f2fb36db9f3bd (diff) | |
| download | blog-1d7c51258d903e6a764f7fd6fd90f18c15ff0063.tar.gz blog-1d7c51258d903e6a764f7fd6fd90f18c15ff0063.tar.bz2  | |
Formatting
| -rw-r--r-- | books/sociology/counterrevolution.md | 81 | 
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md b/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md index 0ac5731..86934fa 100644 --- a/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md +++ b/books/sociology/counterrevolution.md @@ -9,28 +9,31 @@  ## Genealogy -* Mass-scale warfare -  * MAD -  * Massive retaliation -  * Game theory -  * Systems analisys -  * Nuclear war - -* Counterinsurgency -  * Modern warfare -  * Unconventional, counter-guerrila -  * Special Ops -  * Surgical operations - -* Mao's “Eight Points of Attention” plus two principles: -  1. Talk to people politely. -  2. Observe fair dealing in all business transactions. -  3. Return everything borrowed from the people. -  4. Pay for anything damaged. -  5. Do not beat or scold the people. -  6. Do not damage crops. -  7. Do not molest women. -  8. Do not ill-treat prisoners-of-war. 6 +### Mass-scale warfare + +* MAD +* Massive retaliation +* Game theory +* Systems analisys +* Nuclear war + +### Counterinsurgency + +* Modern warfare +* Unconventional, counter-guerrila +* Special Ops +* Surgical operations + +### Mao's “Eight Points of Attention” plus two principles + +1. Talk to people politely. +2. Observe fair dealing in all business transactions. +3. Return everything borrowed from the people. +4. Pay for anything damaged. +5. Do not beat or scold the people. +6. Do not damage crops. +7. Do not molest women. +8. Do not ill-treat prisoners-of-war.        Two other principles were central to Mao’s revolutionary doctrine: first, the        importance of having a unified political and military power structure that @@ -39,21 +42,25 @@        explained, “proper psychological measures could create and maintain ideological        cohesion among fighters and their civilian supporters.” 7 -* Paret's (1960) tasks of “counterguerrilla action”: -  1. The military defeat of the guerrilla forces. -  2. The separation of the guerrilla from the population. -  3. The reestablishment of governmental authority and the development of a viable social order. - -* Petraeus: 3 key pillars: -  1. "The first is that the most important struggle is over the population." -  2. "Allegiance of the masses can only be secured -     by separating the small revolutionary minority from the passive majority, and by -     isolating, containing, and ultimately eliminating the active minority. In his -     accompanying guidelines," -  3. "Success turns on collecting information on -     everyone in the population. Total information is essential to properly distinguish -     friend from foe and then extract the revolutionary minority. It is intelligence— -     total information awareness—that renders the counterinsurgency possible." +### Paret's (1960) tasks of “counterguerrilla action” + +1. The military defeat of the guerrilla forces. +2. The separation of the guerrilla from the population. +3. The reestablishment of governmental authority and the development of a viable social order. + +### Petraeus: 3 key pillars + +1. "The first is that the most important struggle is over the population." + +2. "Allegiance of the masses can only be secured +    by separating the small revolutionary minority from the passive majority, and by +    isolating, containing, and ultimately eliminating the active minority. In his +    accompanying guidelines," + +3. "Success turns on collecting information on +   everyone in the population. Total information is essential to properly distinguish +   friend from foe and then extract the revolutionary minority. It is intelligence— +   total information awareness—that renders the counterinsurgency possible."  ## Excerpts  | 
