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this is the best gross example of the almost infinite scale at which an insurgency can operate. I don't think anything in the typical American experience can provide perspective for this event.
Sri Lanka is a tiny island (270 miles x 140 miles), and yet the Tamil Tigers have flourished. When I was in India last month, the Tigers had launched an air attack on a Sri Lankan military base, destroying several planes on the ground and killing a dozen or so soldiers.
How does an insurgency on an island develop to such a maturity level that it has both the civilian population willing to kill themselves for virtually nothing and can operate an "air force?"
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