Booklet: What are Washington’s strategic principles for eliminating anti-American trends?
American policymaking has always sought to eliminate its opponents and movements in all corners of the world using various means, including state terrorism, and has not hesitated to take any action in this regard. American theorists and strategists have developed a set of principles to make their actions fruitful in this regard, and a number of these confidential documents from American government and security institutions were published by WikiLeaks a few years ago. The Hazem Study Center has analyzed a number of these documents in the context of American policymaking to counter anti-American movements.
In this report, the Americans have interpreted any protest and opposition to their hegemonic policies and those of Western governments in the world as “insurgency.” You can read the summary of this report below:
Chapter One – Insurgency (In this document, insurgency refers to protest actions against the United States or its allies inside and outside the country).
Insurgency means the use of destructive and violent actions to dominate a region or country or change the political situation. Insurgents are those who act to overthrow a government and gain full or partial control over the lives of people in a specific region. Insurgents use various forms of force, such as terrorist and guerrilla warfare, creating intimidation among the people, destructive media propaganda, etc.
Insurgents fight government forces in a country or region to achieve their goal. Of course, we must emphasize that the goal of insurgents is not to kill government forces; rather, they seek to achieve the main goal of dignity, which is to overthrow the government.
Motives of Insurgency
In the 21st century, in most cases, the motives of people who launch insurgencies are Marxist, religious, ethnic, or a combination of these. Several civilians join insurgent movements for various reasons.
Ways to recruit in rebel movements
The charismatic personality of the rebel leader is in some cases much more important than their ideology in convincing others to join a rebel movement.
In most cases, those who join rebel movements are financially motivated, and the element of money is much more important to them than ideology. This is why criminal and extremist groups can very quickly attract unemployed youth.
The demands of the people at various levels, including political and financial, are not important to the leaders of rebel movements, but they abuse these needs of the people to achieve their own goals.
Elements of rebel movements and supporters of these movements justify their extremist actions through discourses and propaganda promoted by media affiliated with the aforementioned movements without having accurate knowledge of the rebel ideology.
Rebel movements always rely on a series of external stakeholders to create internal conflict. In tribal societies, such as parts of South and Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, in many cases, insurgent movements seek to gain tribal support to confront the government. Insurgents need patronage, troops, safe havens, money, logistical facilities, weapons, and intelligence on government actions.