A large part of current U.S. COIN doctrine (Counter-Insurgency) that was re-vamped and rolled out around 2006 to ground pounders in Iraq and A-Stan is based upon the lessons learned by the British during the Malayan Emergency. Think Tankers like David Kilcullen wrote extensively on it in books like The Accidental Guerilla and Out of the Mountains. It would do the Armed Citizen justice to study up on these TTP going forward for obvious reasons!
Additonal Worth While Reading:
The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot
Invisible Armies by Max Boot
(Please Note these books were written by the author before he became a spineless liberal).
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Roger Cohen — The Islamic State of Molenbeek (The New York Times, April 11 2016)
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I found it interesting that the primary rifle favored for both sniping and general use is the SVD and PSL. This reiterates the ideal that in small guerilla groups the TERRAIN/OPERATING ENVIRONMENT generally dictates the types of weapons used.
The Tactical Hermit 
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