{"id":114801,"date":"2026-01-26T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114801"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:18:19","slug":"114801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114801","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

BLUF:
\nYour call, America. But from where I sit, this isn\u2019t January 2026 politics anymore.
\nIt\u2019s phase one of something we\u2019ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eric Schwalm<\/a><\/p>\n

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops\u2014both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations\u2014I\u2019ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn\u2019t \u201cprotest.\u201d It\u2019s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who\u2019ve clearly studied the playbook.<\/p>\n

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24\/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction\u2014or worse.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace \u201cICE agents\u201d with \u201coccupying coalition forces\u201d and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

The most sobering part? It\u2019s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they\u2019re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers\u2014complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that\u2019s already turned lethal\u2014you\u2019re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You\u2019re facing a distributed resistance that\u2019s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.<\/p>\n

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don\u2019t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they\u2019re winning the information war.<\/p>\n

We either recognize what we\u2019re actually looking at\u2014or we pretend it\u2019s still just \u201cactivism\u201d until the structures harden and spread.<\/p>\n

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn\u2019t January 2026 politics anymore.
\nIt\u2019s phase one of something we\u2019ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLUF: Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn\u2019t January 2026 politics anymore. It\u2019s phase one of something we\u2019ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil. Eric Schwalm As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops\u2014both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations\u2014I\u2019ve … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-quote-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114802,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114801\/revisions\/114802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}