interdasting anon. have to pick this book up. tanks..
>>9193533 lb
>https://stopshouting.blogspot.com/2016/01/shtf-self-education-series-from-library.html
More insight from Luttwak continues, and is fairly littered throughout the text. The core issue of separating the professional caste of bureaucrats and functionaries from the political leadership is again, an issue that one normally does not consider. Administrations/regimes come and go, but many civil servants dwell in various positions for 20, 30 or more years. They see them (the political administration) wax and wane, yet they remain a constant. The wedge between bureaucracy and the political leadership is a dicey issue, given the vested interests and incestuous nature of appointments and "plum positions". The bureaus are cogs and levers in a machine, the coup is merely a replacement of the hands on the levers of power.
>the bigger the bureaucracy, the more leverage points possible
Many readers will be conceptually familiar with the path of autodelegitimization that leads to the fall of a regime. Luttwak boils it to its essence, in that "comes about when a long series of illegal seizures of power leads to a decay of the legal and political structures which are needed to produce new governments." In this, governments actually have a key role in their own overthrow, they prepare the ground by sowing deeply the seeds of discontent.
>sounds familiar
The concept of key terrain as made relevant through relative superiority is developed here. Relative superiority is a term coined by Admiral McRaven in his seminal work "Spec Ops". This term means that you do not have to be the 800 pound gorilla, you just have to have massed at a point in time and place of decision that your enemy cannot effectively respond to in time.
>really good lesson
>>9193217 lb
5:5. puts the ccpsyop about fort d. into a new perspective