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Iraq, Afghanistan, Minneapolis: The Insurgency Playbook

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Bill Whittle Network

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4.8747 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Some people have seen it before, in action. Steve Green brings us the report of an American special forces veteran who knows how to recognize a deadly pattern — and the plan behind it — when he sees one.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's at least one guy very familiar with what's going on in Minneapolis because he's a retired green beret and he's seen it before from Anbar to Hellman, as he put it, while fighting jihadis in the global war on terror.

0:11.8

Hey, everybody. I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. This is right angle, right to by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

0:17.0

And gentlemen, let me take you to Special Forces veteran Eric Schwalm, who had a great thread on X the other day.

0:26.1

He said, what's unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn't protest.

0:30.2

It's low-level insurgency infrastructure built by people who've clearly studied the playbook.

0:36.2

He said, this isn't spontaneous outrage.

0:38.9

This is C2, command and control with redundancy,

0:42.5

OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a special forces team sergeant not in recognition.

0:48.7

He said, replace ICE agents with occupying coalition forces

0:52.8

and the structure maps almost one to one to early

0:56.6

stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. And again, that's in places like Afghanistan and

1:03.5

Iraq. Bill, Trump's hinted at it. When you read something like this, is it maybe time for him

1:09.2

to invoke the Insurrection Act?

1:15.3

Makes me want to hire this guy to come back and hunt him again is what it makes me want to do.

1:17.3

All right. Call it back up.

1:24.2

Yeah. And my episode this week on what's going on in Minneapolis and Minnesota actually ties into this.

1:31.1

This is a really unique perspective that you don't get, that I've never heard before, not only on the Minnesota problems, but I've never heard this area of expertise

1:39.9

applied to any American domestic situation. And we should know by now, certainly since the end of

1:49.0

the Second World War, there has been a playbook for the stages necessary to undermine a government,

1:55.3

to undermine the morale of the people, large-scale psychological operations, selective control of information.

2:02.7

We've been subject to that here in the U.S. since the 60s in terms of the left-wing bias on pretty much everything.

2:11.6

But to hear a guy who's had to not only deal with those cells and identify those cells, but learn how to fight

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