The Hearts and Minds Campaign and why the LTTE will collapse
A revolutionary war must achieve two things if it
is to succeed - the acceptance and support of the people it
represents and a military victory over the opposing armed forces,
the first being by far the more important. Mao Tse Tung, the
original proponent of guerrilla warfare drew the famous simile of
the revolutionary fighters as the fish and the people the water the
fish needs to survive.
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Under what circumstances can UN intervene in a domestic crisis?
The intrinsic value to a society of eschewing
racial and national hatred is portrayed in the aftermath of the
Holocaust - the defining event of the last century. Human rights in
our lifetime cannot be comprehended without touching our own
conceptual proximity to this and other recent events which marred
the dignity of human civilisation.
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