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ID:
115084
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2012.
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Syria's tyrant Bashar al-Assad is in the middle of a life-or-death struggle. He might be overthrown. He should be.
The Arab Socialist Baath Party regime, beginning with its founder Hafez al-Assad and continuing through the rule of his son Bashar, is the deadliest state sponsor of terrorism in the Arab Middle East. It assisted the bloodthirsty insurgency in Iraq that killed American soldiers by the thousands and murdered Iraqi civilians by the tens of thousands. It has used both terrorism and conventional military power to place Lebanon under its boot since the mid-1970s. It made Syria into the logistics hub for Hezbollah, the best-equipped and most lethal non-state armed force in the world. It has waged a terrorist war against Israel and the peace process for decades, not only from Lebanon, but also from the West Bank and Gaza. And it is Iran's sole Arab ally and its bridge to the Mediterranean.
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ID:
118987
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ID:
122398
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2012.
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I
nsurgency, like war, has an enduring nature and a changing character. It
remains a strategy entailing violence used by the weak and desperate against
a power system.1
Often (but not always), this pits a nonstate or proto-state organization against a state. Out of weakness, the organization using a strategy of
insurgency attempts to shift the focus of conflict away from domains where the
state or other power structure is particularly strong, particularly the conventional military. Insurgents seek to make domains decisive where morale and
other psychological characteristics matter more than tangible power, recognizing these characteristics even the odds to a certain extent. The enduring nature
of insurgency includes three core functions: an insurgency must survive, it must
strengthen itself, and it must weaken the power structure or state.
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ID:
057487
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ID:
114845
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ID:
119136
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ID:
131943
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ID:
130101
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