Soaressilva/military

From the comment by Mencius Moldbug: "The conflicts of "occupier" and "nationalist" in the post-1945 Third World "liberation struggles" were, in reality, civil wars by proxy. There was nothing remotely indigenous about the "national liberation fronts" that emerged so spontaneously after WWII in every country from Cyprus to Cambodia. What do Cypriots and Cambodians have in common? Nothing that's Cypriot or Cambodian, you can be sure. These were proxy forces - their soldiers and even leaders were, to be sure, natives, but their ideologies came straight from Harvard, the LSE, or Moscow. And often all three.

The resulting strategy was a pincer movement in which comparatively weak native irregulars were and are able to inflict military defeat on stronger, more effective European forces, because and only because they were allied with antimilitarist political factions in the military's home country whose objective, whether overt, tacit or even unconscious, was to leverage their political and bureaucratic influence to castrate their militarist adversaries."