“John, your analogy is flawed… there are simply too many unknown variables to make such a blanket comparison.”
Nonsense! 3500 years of military history prove you wrong. If you are interested in rectifying your ignorance, “War in the Shadows” by Robert B Asprey is a good place to start. Asprey, like most English historians is a Socialist/Communist and also like most English historians his research is impeccable. His facts are correct but his dogma prevents him from reaching the correct conclusions.
4th generation warfare is based on the fact that there can be no neutrals in certain types of conflicts. If neutrality was possible, there would be no Insurgencies, no guerrilla conflicts, no revolutionary warfare. All these types of conflict ( grouped together as 4th generation warfare by modern military thinkers)
use the principal of ‘no neutrals’ as a force multiplier.
Most people don’t want to get involved. So the anti-government forces use that to their advantage.
Guerrillas cannot stand up to government forces in direct combat, so they have to hide and strike from the shadows. So anyone who sees a guerrilla fighter and doesn’t point them out (get involved) to the government has helped the G.
Just like you helped the bank robber make his getaway. You may not think so, but the bank robber and the cops do. If there was a video camera that caught the robbers running past you, in some states you will be charged with ‘aiding and abetting’.
Unwitting aid is still aid.
