Guess Who the US COIN Manual Paraphrases

[John Nada]

Social

2-32. The social variable describes the cultural, religious, and ethnic makeup within an operational environment and the beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors of society. Understanding the society is foundational to understanding the social variable. A society is defined as a population whose members are subject to the same political authority, occupy a common territory, have a common culture, and share a sense of identity. However, no society is completely homogeneous. A society usually has a dominant culture, but it can have secondary cultures. Different societies may share similar cultures, as Canada and the U.S. do. Societies are not static, but change over time. (For more information on this variable, see chapter 3 of this publication and ADRP 5-0.)Anybody know who it is?:grin:

[Sea]

Could be almost any competent sociologist, historian, anthropologist, etc. But I'm going to go with.... Hitler?

Is it Hitler?

It's Hitler isn't it. :/

[John Nada]

A society is defined as a population whose members are subject to the same political authority, occupy a common territory, have a common culture, and share a sense of identity.
A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture
Societies are not static, but change over time.
It goes without saying that a nation, like every historical phenomenon, is subject to the law of change, has its history, its beginning and end.https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm#s1

I didn't think this was serious enough for the other forums. I just thought it was funny that they basically plagiarize Stalin of all people! Only swapped out nation for society, "historically constituted, stable community" for population, economic life for political authority, psychological makeup for shared sense of identity, and omitting language. A lot of insurgencies were at least nominally inspired by Marxism-Leninism, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's were they got it from.

However, this isn't the first time the US military plagiarized other people's work. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/01/the-us-armys-serial-plagiarists/

[Sewer Socialist]

Heh, this is nothing compared to the Israelis giving their soldiers copies of D&G's 1000 Plateaus. ;)

[The Intransigent Faction]

Well, clearly, this means...

Stalinists have infiltrated the U.S. government!
Quick! Someone phone Alex Jones!