(Rich Gibson summary 2018)
Targeted killings offer false hope (think drones) viii
Don’t rotate out ix
People defeat technology ix
Insurgencies start before violence--Clauswitz 1
First step in an insurgency--a cause--IDEAS---passion 5,15, 54, 72, 89
Masses move, leaders will appear--- 2
Insurgency--protracted long war 3
A revolution is a political war but COIN wants a short war 7
Rejected elites become leaders 14
Revo tactics pull toward opportunism 16
Under real tyranny, revos are hard 19
Battle is for control of the population 21 47 58
A drift in the revo causes desertions 21
Create a party--united front??? 31
Stage of legality--non-violence---then guerrilla warfare 32
No base equals banditism 33
Treat prisoners well 35
Common doctrine widely taught easily understood, see IDEAS above 36
MONEY IS THE SINEW OF WAR 40
A peacetime political “machine” equals patronage 47
Organize the left to move the center and neutralize the right 52
COIN must have a SINGLE director---61
China--red soldiers as propagandists---62
COIN--create at least a fiction of civilian rule 63
COIN--minimize fire 66
Possibly punish COIN troop misdeeds 77
Live with the people 78
No big bases 79
Impose control not as an enemy 81
Take a careful census 82
No ostentation 85
SPLIT the INSURGENCY 86
Do NOT Torture 87
Hold elections, not raids 89
Test leaders 89
Party---Democratic Centralism, screen applicants, build a secret wing for a long term fight. 92
Control communications and abilities to evacuate
Leaders often intellectuals and students 30
Welcome or kill the last insurgents 92
Amnesty 93 94
Build COIN from population up 95
Study the world-wide importance of the Chinese revolution 97