From a former special forces operative:

As a former Special Forces warrant officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops-- both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations-- I've seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand to Peshawar, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What's unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn?t "protest". It's low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who've clearly studied the playbook and have support from within the state and local governments.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit,
Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible local
PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction-- or worse.

This isn't spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make an SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace "ICE agents" with "occupying coalition forces" and the structure maps almost 1:1 to the early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It's domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country whose law enforcement they're trying to paralyze. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers-- complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that's already turned lethal-- you're no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You're facing a distributed resistance that's learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every
thinking American awake at night.

I say this not because I want escalation, but because history shows these things *don't* de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they're winning the information war.

We either recognize what we're actually looking at-- or we pretend it's still just mere "activism" until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn't January 2026 politics anymore. It's phase one of something we've spent decades trying to keep off
our own soil.



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