No. I don’t fail to grasp that at all. What I do grasp is that individual training really means very little. I currently work training PMCs attached to “the State Department”. So former specops guys(aka legit pipe hitters) from across the service branches. Yet they have to do team training daily(unless they are on mission) to be able to work together at any level of efficiency.
So if you can show me where all these people got together and trained together, or even knew each other from anywhere other than the internet, then you can start to make a claim that they were anything other than a disorganized mob that showed any more tactics than a group of starving rats in a maze.
Where do they train together? What is their hierarchical leadership structures. How many subunits do they have? Do all 100k that you claimed were there get together weekly to practice overthrowing the government?
Unless you can provide answers to all of those questions they aren’t a militia in any sense. They are a disorganized mob, full of clowns that decided to dress up in tacticool gear.
I agree on the second two points but not the first. The IRA are a good example paramilitary group and the rioters aren’t even remotely in the same league.
Hahaha, oh my sweet summer child. I like how you obviously haven’t done a shred of research, but you’re trying to tell me what’s up. All these questions are easily answered, but lol, I ain’t speaking on all that. Fuck that noise.
I treat mobs in general as the same, but not a mob in one particular event. I’ve done public order training (riot training) twice in my military career. Thankfully I’ve never put it into practice but apart from very robust practical sessions there’s a fair bit of theory behind it before tactics are applied. A main part of the theory is the the break down of the mob into sub groups similar to what you mentioned so I’ll never treat one mob as a whole, but I will tar different mobs with the same brush.
Peaceful protests are obviously fine but more often than not they’re sabotaged by agitators and it devolves into a riot. From then on it becomes a mob and regardless of how righteous that mob thinks and feels it will cause more harm than good.
Therefore I place both ends of the political spectrum who decided to riot over the past year into the same pot. Their goals are opposing but their methods are the same and I have nothing but contempt for their self-entitled, arrogant use of violence.
Regarding the IRA, I meant anything post 1970, mainly provisional.
The only more poorly trained and organized people there, than the cops, were the “militia”.
ROFL
And, I agree that they got hung out to dry by their superiors. I suspect on direct orders from The Donald, or got word from on high to be understrength and unprepared.
They didnt come to kill people. Lol. It was all a giant clusterfuck. They were mainly there to fight antifa. Hence the crowd chanting “fuck antifa” throughout. Then things went wrong including property damage and medical emergencies and the police response incited a riot.
I also don’t see how you can say the cops had bettee training. Look at the difference in medical teams for instance. The militia’s was more effective.
And why do you assume I’m trolling? How do I troll about an attack before it happens and then it happens? I was watching the whole time. Lol
Not really. Look even if I went to guys used to playing from the same playbook, army SF, the 75th, Seal Team Six(you name it) and randomly selected guys from assault teams. And said assault that building. Unless they could huddle down and determine what role each person would play, they are just a mob and will act like a mob.
History is rife with accounts of even single units in the Army or Navy descending into a mob mentality when enough links in the chain of command are knocked out. The Naval Academy has a mural to a Junior Officer, who, after the bridge crew including the Admiral were taken out by a lucky hit, and seeing the fleet descending into chaos(becoming a disorganized mob) began issuing orders as if he was the admiral.
What differentiates mob from militia is the “well regulated” bit. Being able to operate as a military unit(which a militia is) required both unified training and unified command. Those 30k people had neither.
Why didn’t they set the napalm off? Why didn’t they dig in and occupy? Why aren’t they making demands and taking hostages?
Even a militia with a minimum amount of basic training and enough dedication would have steam rolled that poor attempt at security and established the grounds for an extremely bloody siege. It was gift wrapped for the ‘militia’ but it simply… gave up and walked away with more casualties caused by their own incompetence.
This was no coup d’etat, I’ve seen the aftermath of these for real and this farce doesn’t even remotely meet the criteria. This is exactly what it appears to be, a bunch of wannabe’s ‘organising’ themselves over Parler and a acting like another self-entitled mob. Should the riot itself be taken seriously? Of course, it exposed glaring flaws in security policies, people got killed and it showed the rights willingness to riot. Is it a genuine attempt to overthrow the US government? Absolutely not, the people capable of that won’t be talking about it on social media and turn up dressed in a larping costume pretending to be a soldier. They’ll appear suddenly with a lot of dead people around them and probably fight until they die.
If you honestly think that this was a genuine coup attempt orchestrated through paler, you must have been shitting yourself last year when the riots tore the country up, organised through Facebook and twitter or does that not count because it suits your political ideology?