OTAS: operational thinking against the state
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trying to do the impossible task of thinking strategically and tactically about revolt against the ruling order

(for academic purposes only)
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cover and concealment 101
(not enough to read some slides, but a place to start before doing good practice)
Forwarded from SHTF
๐Ÿ’ฆDrink water from the spring where the horse drinks. A horse will never drink bad water.

๐Ÿ˜ธMake your bed where the cat sleeps.

๐ŸŽEat the fruit that was touched by the worm.

๐Ÿ„Freely pick the mushrooms on which the insects sit.

๐ŸŒณPlant your tree where the mole digs.

๐ŸกBuild your house where the snake suns itself.

๐ŸฃDig your well where the birds build their nests in hot weather.

๐Ÿ˜ดGo to sleep and wake up with the chickens and you will reap the golden grain of the day.

๐Ÿฅ—Eat more green vegetables, and you will have strong legs and an enduring heart.

๐ŸŒŠSwim more often and you will feel on land like a fish in the water.

๐ŸŒคLook at the skies more often and not at your feet, and your thoughts will be clear and light.

๐ŸคซKeep silent more often, speak less, and silence will reign in your soul, and your spirit will be calm and peaceful.

๐Ÿ“ St. Seraphim of Sarov in Georgia
Firearms are tricky in most contexts and can lead to tit for tat escalations or dramatically increased repression, but as far as self defense goes, โ€œand with a gat, it don't matter if he's smaller or bigger.โ€
Space Force is largely logistical and PR oriented. They are mostly responsible for comms and surveillance and do what the US Air Force has already been doing, but they have a sci-fi coating for effect.
Which one is real? lol
Fun fact: the FBI hates losing cases, so much so they mainly stage big cases via entrapment and only prosecute when it seems certain they can win. This also encourages framings. Though they value getting factual information out of informants etc (unlike the CIA who will take any actionable information hence the torture confessions etc) the FBI does value winning more than the truth.
Though we think the bit about trust circles no larger than five seems arbitrary even if around there is the tested squad size and that you can operate with scaling levels of opsec in large chats like keeping engagement above the board, your social media and chat activity can bring you down if youโ€™re not careful. No bragging, no unfounded rumors. The point of opsec and security culture is to help you do what you want to do safer, we canโ€™t let it paralyze us, but we can be as careful as the consequences entail.
a lot of โ€œanalysis if extremistsโ€ sites have pretty fallacious analysis, but this one generally has content that conveys a good read of things

https://gnet-research.org
Honestly this is how elections work too, the elected acts as a figure head and a lightning rod, if fundamental functions of the state get too unpopular they can blame the figure head and in the next election basically cathartically simulate an overthrow w/o fundamental change in rulership.