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Great read.
It adds some quick context I’ve never read before about a few operating environments.
Maybe I’m a bit biased after reading “A Covert Action” by Seth Jones as well as a bunch of stuff by OTPOR/CANVAS activist Srđa Popović, but I’m guessing successful future UW/resistance in the future is going to have less kinetics and more distributed non attributable technology, “less guerilla” “more underground/auxiliary”.
Khomeini cassettes, on steroids.
And the much more open western coalition is much more vulnerable to it than the much more closed eastern cabal.
China, Russia, and Iran have been locking down their internet to mitigate against it being used as a UW platform for political warfare/dissent.
QRHELPFUL was “right place,right time,right local partner”, subtle, and cheap.
Unfortunately, it feels like we are currently on the receiving(disruption) end of exactly that.
Digital platforms as both offensive and defensive political/unconventional warfare tools is clearly a growth opportunity with massive attack surface potential.
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I’ve lived long enough to learn a small slice of DET-A on here.
I hope I live long enough to find out if there’s anymore to the intelligence take story of the October 1961 PLA deputy brigade commander ambush in Tibet as found in the source.
Great Leap Forward economic disaster
Fracture between China/USSR
Inability to seize Taiwan
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