George Orwell
2009-11-24 02:37:17 UTC
William S. Lind
23 November 2009
One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a major player in 4GW because gang members are expected to fight. Those who wont do not remain gang members.
The November 15 Washington Post had a story about gangs in Salinas, California, that deserves close attention from 4GW theorists. Salinas is reportedly overrun with Hispanic gangs. The Post wrote that its homicide rate is three times that of Los Angeles. It quoted a Salinas police officer, Sgt. Mark Lazzarini, on one of the classic results of state breakdown, chaos:
Only half of our gangs are structured; the Norteños, he said. The southerners are completely unstructured. Half of our violence is kids who get into a car and go out and hunt. These kids dont know their victims. How do you stop that? Its very chaotic.
Salinass new slogan might be, Salinas: where even the lettuce has tattoos.
But what is interesting in the Posts article is not the gangs themselves. It is a new response to the gangs. Salinas has brought in the U.S. military to apply counter-insurgency doctrine to a situation on American soil. The Post reports that:
Since February combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency doctrine, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city
Its a little laboratory, said retired Col. Hy Rothstein, the former Army career officer in Special Forces who heads the team of 15 faculty members and students (from the Naval Postgraduate School), mostly naval officers
Rothstein notes the significant overlap with how you deal with insurgencies and how you deal with cities that are under siege from gangs.
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23 November 2009
One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a major player in 4GW because gang members are expected to fight. Those who wont do not remain gang members.
The November 15 Washington Post had a story about gangs in Salinas, California, that deserves close attention from 4GW theorists. Salinas is reportedly overrun with Hispanic gangs. The Post wrote that its homicide rate is three times that of Los Angeles. It quoted a Salinas police officer, Sgt. Mark Lazzarini, on one of the classic results of state breakdown, chaos:
Only half of our gangs are structured; the Norteños, he said. The southerners are completely unstructured. Half of our violence is kids who get into a car and go out and hunt. These kids dont know their victims. How do you stop that? Its very chaotic.
Salinass new slogan might be, Salinas: where even the lettuce has tattoos.
But what is interesting in the Posts article is not the gangs themselves. It is a new response to the gangs. Salinas has brought in the U.S. military to apply counter-insurgency doctrine to a situation on American soil. The Post reports that:
Since February combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have been advising Salinas police on counterinsurgency doctrine, bringing lessons from the battlefield to the meanest streets in an American city
Its a little laboratory, said retired Col. Hy Rothstein, the former Army career officer in Special Forces who heads the team of 15 faculty members and students (from the Naval Postgraduate School), mostly naval officers
Rothstein notes the significant overlap with how you deal with insurgencies and how you deal with cities that are under siege from gangs.
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