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Drain the Swamp

Has its genisys in comments made by Chairman Mao…he said if you implant guerrillas with a friendly population,

So what do we have here in the USA? We have ENEMIES of the people imbedded with good people…how do you find and cull them?

In Vietnam the strategy was relocation. A "hamlet" strategy which was disastrous. In Iraq (recent) many different strategies were discussed.

If you will notice…EVERYTHING THEY TRY leads to them GLOWING…or at least a portion of them GLOWING…

https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA143341204&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00311723&p=AONE&sw=w

""The first reaction to guerilla warfare must be to protect and control the population."

–Brigadier Richard L. Clutterbuck

The Long, Long War: Counterinsurgency in Malaya and Vietnam

"What the peasant wants to know is: does the government mean to win the war? Because if not, he will have to support the insurgent."

–Sir Robert Thompson

Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam

"When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that you came to drain the swamp."

–Anon."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/11/draining-swamp/

"In the meantime, “draining the swamp” in such wars, it’s worth remembering, is hardly a unidirectional activity. As the London Times‘ Jenkins comments, reaching back to Napoleon’s 19th century invasion of Russia (and an early version of the quagmire image),”The Russian general, Kutusov, called Moscow ‘the sponge that will suck Napoleon dry.’ Sunni Iraq is taking on the same function for the Americans.” And the rebels of various factions are intent on hastening the process by performing their own grim “draining” activities — draining away all support for the occupiers. "