Over at Ezra’s place, Dymaxion John had an interesting post about the PLA and Islamic insurgents in Western China. The idea of the PLA developing counter-insurgency doctrine fascinates me from a military culture point of view, since the PLA originated as an insurgent organization. How well did they make the switch from being guerrillas to […]
Category: insurgency
Last night we screened Red Dawn at the Patterson School, first of the Spring Film Series. Red Dawn is not… a good movie. Most of us found it entertaining, although probably not all for the same
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