Michael Yon Famous Imbedded War Correspondent
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The big step into insurgency warfare comes when average, intelligent people see the government as illegitimate. And are willing to do something. Actively or passively. This means, among other forms of war being waged from different corners, we face insurgency, civil war, and revolution.

Our situation is no longer is ‘a possibility,’ or ‘at some point if we are not careful.’ We are there. This is it. While we’ve been running around the world dumping trillions to install ‘democrazy’ (as Thais call it), and to rescue people who don’t want our help, our own house crumbles. We’ve elected people who could not pass an algebra class pretending to understand climatology and solar cycles.

When 1% want war, the other 99% have limited choice other than to depart the arena. This is a fact of war, and of arson. Many will remain in denial until their own streets are ablaze. As witnessed this year, 2020.

. . . The big step into war comes when average, intelligent people see the government as illegitimate. We are there. Huge numbers of Americans are not just disgruntled with the government but see the government as actively hostile to their own families, beliefs, and wellbeing.

https://www.michaelyon-online.com/dispatch-46-revolution-insurgency-and-civil-war-we-are-there.htm

Michael Yon
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Occupation Writer, author, blogger, columnist, photographer, war correspondent[1]
Michael Yon (born 1964)[1] is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq.[2] Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005.[3]

Yon has had vocal feuds with the United States military hierarchy, and the nature of his reports are also controversial.[2] However, Yon at one time enjoyed "rock star" status among individual soldiers, according to Brian Williams of NBC.[4] Yon's alternative media reporting has been mentioned by numerous mainstream media agencies, and he has won accolades from the 2005, 2007,[5] and 2008 Weblog Awards.[6] In 2008, The New York Times reported that he has spent more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist in Iraq.[1] He shifted the focus of his blogging from Iraq to Afghanistan in August 2008.[7] His work is supported primarily by donations from readers.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yon