[russianstallian]

A little long, so fyi there. Pretty interesting read. I'll give you a snip from the intro & conclusion as a carrot to entice some of you into reading it :

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“What the peasant wants to know is: does the government mean to win the
war? Because if not, he will have to support the insurgent.”

Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control

In Kenya, against the contemporary Mau Mau rebellion, the British employed the same strategy as they had in Malaya, in this case interning basically all of the ethnic Kikuyu. The system of detention camps and fortified villages quickly degenerated into what historian Caroline Elkins has called “Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.”
If that point is reached, involuntary internment may prove to be the least bad remaining humane alternative. International opinion, which views with equanimity the minority’s imposition of collective terror upon the majority, will undoubtedly oppose such a strategy as “collective punishment.” What the British practice of counterinsurgency suggests, however, is that it just might work. http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/...?RecordId=2887
Type : Academic Article
Title : Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control
Source : U.S. Army War College
Date Added: 27-Feb-2006
Publication Date : 2-Feb-2006


Posted as food for thought for the (inevitable? possible?) time when these methods will be used at home to quell uprisings.

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This article explains a lot of measures taken by the US government to prevent any organized resistance to anything it does. The British actions are presented with a sugar coating--that they want to protect the population from insurgents, while denying those insurgents access to recruits and support among the population of the country. The US military introduced death squads to the equation. Or was that too a British invention? If you can't win hearts and minds and get people to snitch on their countrymen, then you send out people to kill whole villages as an example to those who take issue with your right to rule them.

The death squads are now morphing into Predator drones. These innovations will soon be patrolling the skies of America itself, snuffing out at will anyone who shows any indication of resistance to totalitarian rule. Minus the sugar coating, this British innovation of controlling the population is what war is all about. Complete total domination and enslavement of a population. We'll have it in the USA soon if we don't already have it. See something? Say something.

Hatha