OTAS: operational thinking against the state

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“A coward is a better enemy than a martyr. An insurgent who has fled his operational area to seek sanctuary elsewhere makes a mockery of his cause and increases the freedom of maneuver for the counterinsurgent. When he hides in his sanctuary, the insurgent no longer competes for the support of the population and becomes irrelevant to the struggle. A dead or detained insurgent, on the other hand, often achieves the status of a martyr and this encourages increased violence in support of the cause, particularly if his fate came at the hands of an outside force. Our goal should not be to capture or kill the enemy, but to render the enemy irrelevant by whatever means available.” ~Security Force Assistance Operations: Defining the Advise and Assist Brigade

training and imagining potential future scenarios is important because WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO YOU DO WHAT YOU KNOW in a chaotic situation it’s good to have put in the work to fall back to a good tactic by default

thermal optics counter measures

Small Wars & Insurgencies Volume 33, 2022 - Issue 4-5 Global counterinsurgency and the police-military continuum https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fswi20/33/4-5

hmm i wonder which house belongs to a politician

During the George Floyd Rebellion in 2020, demonstrators in Portland circulated maps identifying the routes on which police would be more likely to be able to trap crowds. Maybe you can do this where you live, too. For more about how to deal with police kettles: https://cwc.im/kettle

we don’t share this to invoke this literally re bullets and bombs but for people to rethink being arrested or putting yourself needlessly in harms way when things could be accomplished by tools or at a distance.

primarily color laser printers fwiw

Protestors in LA use bravery, numbers, and the environment to perform dearrest. Police often rely on force projection and fear to control the populace in general and crowds. Often able to control situations with a 10 to 1 disadvantage because of people’s fear of getting hurt or arrested themselves but in situations like protests where deadly force is less likely taking on the police with numerical advantage can be quite effective. One person resisting may not work, two might not be enough to sway the crowd, but if three or more go in the affect of the crowd often changes from viewers to participants and then utilizing whatever methods available cops can routed and their comrades can released. One protester here even using a scooter as to create space and intimidating the officers improvising an effective mental and physical weapon.

“What is a true bastion of iron? It is the masses, the millions upon millions of people who genuinely and sincerely support the revolution. That is the real iron bastion, which it is impossible, and impossible, for any force on earth to smash.” —Mao

RE logistics chokepoints in military operation [Odd Lots] What Wooden Pallets Have to Do With Russia's Invasion of Ukraine #oddLots https://podcastaddict.com/episode/137864021

We regret not being able to publish more about sifting through emergent information, the dilemmas of anti-state forces during an invasion, etc, but we are currently overloaded with other related projects. We plan on putting out more content soon though.