The local roots of insurgency mean that properly applied classical counterinsurgency principles can effectively de-oxygenate the local environment that the global insurgent inhabits.
Modern media is a unique and as yet uncontrollable information battlespace with the potential to leverage internal and external forces to act on the side which can best utilize its effects.
While economic and ideological failure played as important role in delegitimising Soviet control, nationalism was the defining feature of the collapse of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe.
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