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<\/p>\nRead this article slowly and consider the ancient and modern historical background information. If you understand the fundamentals of Counter-Insurgency Warfare, this is basically a re-cap on the basics… it is too bad the U.S. Govt. has yet to grasp this simple fact. -SF<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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The Latin phrase\u00a0 hic sunt dracones<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>translates roughly to \u201chere be dragons,\u201d<\/em> an apocryphal phrase attributed to Medieval mapmakers who used the phrase to mark unknown areas on their maps. Today these areas are not the unexplored seas, but the lawless, ungoverned spaces of the world.<\/p>\n Groups like Daesh have used these lawless areas to carve a self-proclaimed Caliphate and step up attacks on enemies outside their immediate area\u200a\u2014\u200aa failed attack on a TGV train in France<\/a>, bombings in Turkey and Lebanon<\/a> that killed close to 150, a destroyed Russian Metrojet flight<\/a>, and the most recentmassacre in Paris<\/a> all within a three month span. Thus far, the attacks have raised the usual questions about intelligence failures, recruiting tools, and attackers disguised as refugees. These questions are necessary, but the fundamental truth of the situation remains something few seem willing to come to grips with, much less discuss\u200a\u2014\u200athese attacks are largely predictable.<\/p>\n That violence in the world\u2019s lawless, ungoverned backwaters leads to violence elsewhere should come as no surprise.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If the world community should have learned anything between September 10, 2001, and now it is that violence against the outside world is the natural, predictable result of territories without law and effective governance.<\/em> That violence in the world\u2019s lawless, ungoverned backwaters leads to violence elsewhere should come as no surprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n