Comments on: Uses of History in the Debate Over COIN http://zenpundit.com/?p=2518 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:10:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Larry http://zenpundit.com/?p=2518#comment-5690 Larry Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:49:12 +0000 http://zenpundit.com/?p=2518#comment-5690 I think Peters and Chang Ting-Chen were simply talking about the same thing, displacement. In that event, you use what you have. If your resources are small you use political displacement (heart), if you have massive resources it might be easier to take the image of your enemy from your mind (exterminate). But either way you have to displace your enemy with you own people, of the same heart or mind. I think the Arab government of Sudan used classic 4GW against the non-Arabs of Darfur. The non-Arabs responded also in classic 4GW. If this warfare actually works for the Arabs, it will depend on who actually ends up in Darfur. Will the Arabs actually displace themselves into Darfur? I doubt it. "<strong>Imperial Japanese Army</strong> both undertook truly <strong>exterminatory</strong> campaigns in China, " The Japanese may have carried on exterminatory campaigns, but I doubt they carried out any a displacement campaign as the whites did to the Native Americans. That is just a guess. Maybe the Japanese had their own version of Over Sea Chinese, I don't know. I think Peters and Chang Ting-Chen were simply talking about the same thing, displacement. In that event, you use what you have. If your resources are small you use political displacement (heart), if you have massive resources it might be easier to take the image of your enemy from your mind (exterminate). But either way you have to displace your enemy with you own people, of the same heart or mind.

I think the Arab government of Sudan used classic 4GW against the non-Arabs of Darfur. The non-Arabs responded also in classic 4GW. If this warfare actually works for the Arabs, it will depend on who actually ends up in Darfur. Will the Arabs actually displace themselves into Darfur? I doubt it.

"Imperial Japanese Army both undertook truly exterminatory campaigns in China, "

The Japanese may have carried on exterminatory campaigns, but I doubt they carried out any a displacement campaign as the whites did to the Native Americans. That is just a guess. Maybe the Japanese had their own version of Over Sea Chinese, I don’t know.

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