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Military Matters: The boomerang effect

12/12/2006 08:45:00 AM -0500

Military Matters: The boomerang effect

By WILLIAM S. LIND

WASHINGTON, DC: Recently, one of my students, a Marine captain, asked whether I had heard a news report about an "IED-like device" supposedly found near Cincinnati, and if I thought we would soon start seeing improvised explosive devisces here in the United States. I replied that I had not heard the news story, but as to whether we would see improvised explosive devices in the American homeland, the answer is yes.

One of the things U.S. troops are learning in Iraq is how people with little training and few resources can fight a state. Most American troops will see this within the framework of counterinsurgency. But a minority will apply their new-found knowledge in a very different way.

After they return to the United States and leave the military, they will take what they learned in Iraq back to the inner cities, to the ethnic groups, gangs, and other alternate loyalties they left when they joined the service. There, they will put their new knowledge to work, in wars with each other and wars against the American state...

Read all about it from Mr. Lind and UPI, visit: http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061212-084514-8993r

(William S. Lind, expressing his own personal opinion, is director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation. The views expressed are those of Mr. Lind and the United Press International, and they do not reflect the opinions or position of the Emergency Response & Research Institute (ERRI), Emergency.Blog, or the EmergencyNet News Service. Mr. Lind's views are intended to provoke discussion and encourage thought.)