Valery Gerasimov Quotes

This was a training manual for the conduct of Guerrilla wars in general and the Contra insurrection in Nicaragua.

In Burundi, family land is divided among the male children of a family. The average Burundian woman has 6.3 children at that time, nearly triple the international fertility rate. With this population growth rate, the plots of land for each person inevitably get smaller and smaller over time. At 10,745 square miles, Burundi is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Maryland, but it holds nearly twice as many people: about 10 million. The small plots of land are inefficient to farm and provide subsistence. So the nation was in a crises as there was little industrialization and land was essential for existence for most Burundians. See {35807} and {35809}." Andre Florian Nbasimana

The Ayatollah reverses logic. Iranian feminists protest not because America tells them to but because Iran is terribly discriminatory and cruel to women. Students are dissatisfied because they have been trained as professionals and the government policies do not encourage the kind of economic growth that would be able to employ them.

He had just assumed his post 6 days earlier. At this point he did not have enough knowledge to favor or oppose the regime change, but he did realize that the decision was a serious one and there would be no turning back. Diem was a creature of the Central Intelligence Agency. An anti-Communist Christian in a Buddhist county, the CIA engineered his rise to power, created his political party, provided him with cash to bribe other Vietnamese politicians, and paid for all the propaganda so he would “win” the Presidential elections. However, he abused the Buddhists, was thoroughly corrupt and ran a corrupt administration, but worst of all from the American point of view, he was unable to motivate the South Vietnamese population to fight the Communists. He reached the point where he was more of a liability, and the Central Intelligence Agency engineered a coup d’etat to remove him from power and replace him with a President more to our liking. (See {634540}.)

Thai society had been polarized and very large peaceful demonstrations (by the Yellow Shirts) were calling for the resignation of the government which although very corrupt and controlled by a single very rich family which had extensive support of the rural and poor (the Red Shirts). This quotation illustrates how a peaceful protest could lead to violence and terrorism. This Red Shirt leader, rather than lose, would lead violence in the streets like the Brown Shirts of the pre WWII Germany. If the violence fails, he was willing to go underground and become a terrorist movement.

There had been a Ukrainian coup where the pro-Russian President of Ukraine was ousted and a new Parliament elected that was more inclined to Europe and the West. Unfortunately, several of the key members of the new regime were neo-Nazis. Ukraine had a nasty past where during WWII over 200.000 Ukrainians joined Hitler’s Nazis and fought against the 800,000 Ukrainians fighting with Russia and the Russians. The Ukrainians even ran the only death concentration camp no operated by Germans. Russia used the presence of some Nazis and the passage of the first Ukranian law of the new Parliament that prohibited the use of Russian in Ukrainian schools to come to the “aid” of the ethnic Russians living near the Russian border at the Eastern end of Ukraine who had seized the governments of several areas and forced the Ukrainian officials out and with the help of Russian “volunteers” with Russian weapons, prevented Ukrainian troops from reasserting control. In the struggle there were deaths on both sides of the conflict and these were the “peaceful civilians” who were “annihilated”.