Minnesota Insurrection: A Special Forces Operator Has Seen This 'From Anbar to Helmand'

Minnesota Insurrection: A Special Forces Operator Has Seen This ‘From Anbar to Helmand’


“I’ve seen organized resistance up close,” special forces veteran Eric Schwalm posted on Sunday, and “from Anbar to Helmand, 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.”

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“What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest’,” he continued. “It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”

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

Schwalm also noted that “the most sobering

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