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 ## Genealogy
 
-* Mass-scale warfare
-  * MAD
-  * Massive retaliation
-  * Game theory
-  * Systems analisys
-  * Nuclear war
-
-* Counterinsurgency
-  * Modern warfare
-  * Unconventional, counter-guerrila
-  * Special Ops
-  * Surgical operations
-
-* Mao's “Eight Points of Attention” plus two principles:
-  1. Talk to people politely.
-  2. Observe fair dealing in all business transactions.
-  3. Return everything borrowed from the people.
-  4. Pay for anything damaged.
-  5. Do not beat or scold the people.
-  6. Do not damage crops.
-  7. Do not molest women.
-  8. Do not ill-treat prisoners-of-war. 6
+### Mass-scale warfare
+
+* MAD
+* Massive retaliation
+* Game theory
+* Systems analisys
+* Nuclear war
+
+### Counterinsurgency
+
+* Modern warfare
+* Unconventional, counter-guerrila
+* Special Ops
+* Surgical operations
+
+### Mao's “Eight Points of Attention” plus two principles
+
+1. Talk to people politely.
+2. Observe fair dealing in all business transactions.
+3. Return everything borrowed from the people.
+4. Pay for anything damaged.
+5. Do not beat or scold the people.
+6. Do not damage crops.
+7. Do not molest women.
+8. Do not ill-treat prisoners-of-war.
 
       Two other principles were central to Mao’s revolutionary doctrine: first, the
       importance of having a unified political and military power structure that
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       explained, “proper psychological measures could create and maintain ideological
       cohesion among fighters and their civilian supporters.” 7
 
-* Paret's (1960) tasks of “counterguerrilla action”:
-  1. The military defeat of the guerrilla forces.
-  2. The separation of the guerrilla from the population.
-  3. The reestablishment of governmental authority and the development of a viable social order.
-
-* Petraeus: 3 key pillars:
-  1. "The first is that the most important struggle is over the population."
-  2. "Allegiance of the masses can only be secured
-     by separating the small revolutionary minority from the passive majority, and by
-     isolating, containing, and ultimately eliminating the active minority. In his
-     accompanying guidelines,"
-  3. "Success turns on collecting information on
-     everyone in the population. Total information is essential to properly distinguish
-     friend from foe and then extract the revolutionary minority. It is intelligence—
-     total information awareness—that renders the counterinsurgency possible."
+### Paret's (1960) tasks of “counterguerrilla action”
+
+1. The military defeat of the guerrilla forces.
+2. The separation of the guerrilla from the population.
+3. The reestablishment of governmental authority and the development of a viable social order.
+
+### Petraeus: 3 key pillars
+
+1. "The first is that the most important struggle is over the population."
+
+2. "Allegiance of the masses can only be secured
+    by separating the small revolutionary minority from the passive majority, and by
+    isolating, containing, and ultimately eliminating the active minority. In his
+    accompanying guidelines,"
+
+3. "Success turns on collecting information on
+   everyone in the population. Total information is essential to properly distinguish
+   friend from foe and then extract the revolutionary minority. It is intelligence—
+   total information awareness—that renders the counterinsurgency possible."
 
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