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More from Taber. Though you should really read the book:

The outbreak of the insurgency is the first step-it is a body blow that in itself inflicts severe damage on the prestige of the regime. The survival of the guerrilla force over a period of time, demonstrating the impotence of the army, continues the process.

As the guerrilla's support widens-and this will come automatically as the weakness of the government is revealed-political trouble is sure to follow, in the form of petitions, demonstrations, strikes. These in their turn will be followed by more serious developments-sabotage, terror, spreading insurrection.

In such circumstances, it will be a remarkable government that will not be driven to stern repressive measures-curfews, the suspension of civil liberties, a ban on popular assembly, illegal acts that can only deepen the popular opposition, creating a vicious circle of rebellion and repression until the economy is undermined, the social fabric torn beyond redemption, and the regime tottering on the verge of collapse.

In the end, it will be a question whether the government falls before the military is destroyed in the field, or whether the destruction of the military brings about the final deposition of the political regime. The two processes are complementary. Social and political dissolution bleeds the military, and the protracted and futile campaign in the field contributes to the process of social and political dissolution, creating what I have elsewhere called "the climate of collapse."

This is the grand strategic objective of the guerrilla: to create the "climate of collapse." It may be taken as the key to everything he does.

"The flea bites, hops and bites again, nimbly avoiding the foot that would crush him."

“The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog's too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with.”

So, who is the proverbial "dog" that the flea bites? You were all about burning people's property. Still goes? Or is the dog getting bitten something else?