"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."—Sun Tzu, The Art of War
You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."—Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Forwarded from Strike Force
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Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are
Forwarded from The Intercept
U.S. Military Training Document Says Socialists Represent "Terrorist" Ideology
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/22/socialists-counterterrorism-political-terrorists-navy-antifa/
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/22/socialists-counterterrorism-political-terrorists-navy-antifa/
The Intercept
U.S. Military Training Document Says Socialists Represent “Terrorist” Ideology
A Navy training document asks, “Anarchists, socialists and neo-nazis represent which terrorist ideological category?”
In the US context it’s going to take a lot more than guns to have any sort of successful insurgency but that more is not better military tech, that more is social. Guns and their application have in fact been a hinderance, see Seattle and Atlanta last summer as examples. Of course it’s also not just guns, but the culture around them that adds to this, but it is also true that the escalation to certain arenas of arms away from low intensity and logistics based conflict does enter a realm where the state has the advantage.
Of course in the US guns and cars are important elements to consider and certainly aren’t something that should never be deployed. The capacity for armed self defense is a need for many. This of course should come with proper training, but not create specialized security. Of course more often than not neo-nazis are shooting each other, but that doesn’t mean they won’t attack people in the street or in their homes. And it’s not just neo-nazis who are armed, but more common reactionaries too.
Of course in the US guns and cars are important elements to consider and certainly aren’t something that should never be deployed. The capacity for armed self defense is a need for many. This of course should come with proper training, but not create specialized security. Of course more often than not neo-nazis are shooting each other, but that doesn’t mean they won’t attack people in the street or in their homes. And it’s not just neo-nazis who are armed, but more common reactionaries too.
Forwarded from Strike Force
ROCK-A-BYE BABY: ON THE STATE'S LEGITIMATION OF JUNETEENTH AND LIBERAL CONCESSIONS AS POLITICAL ANESTHETIZATION IN SLAVERY'S AFTERLIVES
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/rock-a-bye-baby-on-the-states-legitimation-of-juneteenth-and-liberal-concessions-as-political-anesthetization-in-slaverys-afterlives
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/rock-a-bye-baby-on-the-states-legitimation-of-juneteenth-and-liberal-concessions-as-political-anesthetization-in-slaverys-afterlives
Hampton Institute
Rock-A-Bye Baby: On the State's Legitimation of Juneteenth and Liberal Concessions as Political Anesthetization In Slavery's Afterlives…
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By Joshua Briond “Everything has changed on the surface and nothing else has been touched[...] In a way, the state is more powerful than ever, because it has given us so many tokens.” —James Baldwin On Thursday…
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Belarus: “When We Rise”
https://cwc.im/WhenWeRise
Anarchists who participated in the 2020 revolt in Belarus discuss its strengths and weaknesses—and why the regime and its liberal opposition were able to prevent it from toppling the dictatorship.
An invaluable analysis from the front lines.
https://cwc.im/WhenWeRise
Anarchists who participated in the 2020 revolt in Belarus discuss its strengths and weaknesses—and why the regime and its liberal opposition were able to prevent it from toppling the dictatorship.
An invaluable analysis from the front lines.
CrimethInc.
Belarus: “When We Rise”
Anarchists who participated in the 2020 revolt analyze its strengths and weaknesses, exploring why it ultimately failed to topple the dictatorship.
If you want to know what infiltration of activist spaces can look like in the contemporary, here’s a good example of it.
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock/
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock/
The Intercept
How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them
An operative working for TigerSwan, the security firm hired by Energy Transfer to guard the Dakota Access pipeline, spied on activists across three states.