Patterns of Conflict Slide 96

Patterns of Conflict

Patterns of Conflict Slide 96

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So the key to success, note that first bullet in the key to success. It’s said a special way.

Ability to continuously demonstrate government weakness, and note this: and cause government to alienate itself from the people. We’re always saying the people are alienated from the government. That’s wrong. The government alienates itself from the people, because of their own incompetence and inability to come to grips with things that they should’ve come to grips with. They alienate themselves.

I mean, it might help if you added the guerrillas, but nevertheless, they’re alienating themselves in a sense. Let’s take a look at this. [unintelligible] Mao played the dispersion/concentration game. Cites it all the time. Okay?