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207 | David Kilcullen: Insurgencies, Resistance, and Russian Strategy and Tactics

The Realignment

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What's the Difference Between Insurgency and Resistance?

What we've seen from the russians is not the greysone stuff we thought we wre going to see. This is fully conventional. And so i think some of that resistance operating concept needs to be rethought a little bit. But the notion of a sort of civilian resistance with a government in exile and a remnant military force that's providing the backbone for an insurgency, i think that's very much in the cards for ukrane. I think the chances are next to zero - even with huge fire power they'll find it hard to sustain that. You know there's already a significant peace movement in russia, seven thousand in last week,. It's going to be very difficult

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