A Visit to FARC's Jungle Lair
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A Visit to FARC's Jungle Lair
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Re: A Visit to FARC's Jungle Lair
#2Fascinating.
Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.
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#3Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.
Hmm except that’s what the Colombian military has been doing for almost two decades.
At least 10 head commanders of FARC were killed through out the years, when the Colombian Military found their location and bombed their camps deep in the jungle.
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#4Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.
I would have thought the Syrian rebels would have learned from the fate of the Tamil Tigers ... guy with the bigger stick wins.
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#5Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.
I would have thought the Syrian rebels would have learned from the fate of the Tamil Tigers ... guy with the bigger stick wins.
That's one of the rare case where counterinsurgency warfare actually worked, after a few decades.
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#6Slightly related: the co-author of this piece, Juan Moreno, has discovered that his colleauge, an award-winning Spiegel author, instead of doing honest journalistic work, completely invented his stories (including the ones he got the awards for). He discovered the fraud, collected evidence, and called it out despite resistance from inside the newspaper organization (who wants to admit that they have been printing fradulent stories for years and not noticing it). Amazing guy! More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would have thought the Syrian rebels would have learned from the fate of the Tamil Tigers ... guy with the bigger stick wins.
That's one of the rare case where counterinsurgency warfare actually worked, after a few decades.
It's hard to settle on a definition of "worked"
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#8Surprised they are using American weapons (looks like M4 variants in the photos).
I would have thought the FARC would have historically held onto Russian / Chinese AK platforms due to their reliability in Jungle environments.
Unless they source most of their weapons from cartels?
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#9Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.
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#10Fascinating. Jungle ops always intrigues me. So do insurgencies. But a jungle insurgency ...? I mean, good luck countering that if you're averse to burning down the entire forest. It takes some fanatically dedicated fighters to put up with that kind of life and still maintain even a rudimentary level of combat effectiveness.
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