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Originally Posted by Martin
All these groups started off as citizen groups. They just didnt appear from thin air well trained and ready to go.
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No they didn't start off as citizen groups and they didn't come out of thin air.
In Vietnam it wasn't villagers fighting the Vietnamese guerrilla war, it was trained fighters, the Việt Cộng who emerged out of the National Liberation Front who had been training for many years before the war in Vietnam reached any kind of flashpoint.
In Iraq and Syria it's not average citizens who became IS. It was formed out of the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. Which in turn consisted of fighters trained by both the US and the Soviet armies and advisors. Also armed by them. The human fodder joining IS from the West are trained to do one thing, strap on a vest of explosives or drive a truck full of explosives to their deaths.
I have knowledge of this stuff because I am currently in the middle of a degree in Security Terrorism and Counterterrorism at Murdoch University, my second course of University study in the area of International Relations.
It's clear you have a very simplistic view of this stuff, try to think about your home town being ripped apart by tanks, bombs, grenades, shoulder launched missiles and mines. Then add armies with traditional explosive and chemical weapons and as an average citizen you have no hope. You either stay and die, or flee and perhaps get somewhere safe if you are lucky.