Stole this Stick from the Naval War College

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1. When the opposing force or government is positioned as being much worse than the terrorists. The examples of Algeria and the French and Ireland and England were good ones.


2. When the terrorist are as bad or worse than the governments they are trying to overthrow. SL was more muderous than government and offered no benefits.

3. Human Rights! Egos. Neither the British in Ireland nor the French in Algeria wanted to be thought of as murdering bastards. In Algeria the French even went so far as to say they were the fathers of human rights so to be torturing people went against their nature. <rolling my eyes at that>

4. Feature it as a struggle for self-determination against a repressive, imperialistic government.

5. Weakness is that thieves and sociopaths will join your group and give all honest terrorists a bad name.
Strengths - if it works then it's a big gun in a small arsenal. Cheap and it works.