Popular Control
4. popular control
response to battle of the mind
- there is a built in incentive to make the preferences of civilians irrelevant
- this can be accomplished through terror, detention or execution
Hierarchy of responses
- death
- detention
- execution
civil defense organizations
- similar to leninist cellular structure or Castro's bloc system
- a leader is chosen to protect his block
- captains watch over every 2 to 3 houses
- the leader is briefed on and participate in every COIN operation
action committee
- establishing and maintaining support through action
- removed dissentors and tortured them
- assassinations and executions
- effort must be made to empower the local population to actively fight the insurgents
- does this mean training them?
- like the french generals fiercely loyal to the populations they had trained to fight
- loyalty: by refusing to abandon them even if you fical democratic state chooses to you motivate them to fight of the insurgents
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