Insurgencies come with their own set of challenges for the insurgent. Increased crime, and increased violent crime in particular, being one of them. Just because a war might be raging doesn’t mean criminals aren’t doing their thing. In fact… they take full advantage of the chaos. I interviewed a prisoner in Iraq, who turned himself over to us, and who we learned was a serial killer. A true psychopath... deranged to the core. His crimes in any place not consumed by war, wouldn’t have gone unnoticed. But they largely did in Iraq with the exception of the local civilian populace who he terrorized.
That’s just one element. Consider that along with everything that comes with protracted war… like air strikes, gun fights, IEDs, IDF, summary execution, beheadings, no power, no water, no trash services, etc… ain’t no way women on either side of the political isle in this country will tolerate that. And the minute they start running their gums… the insurgency is toast.
Wouldn’t have been all that different back in the 1860s.
