That's the guy. I don't lose much sleep over him being in charge of opposing forces if push comes to shove, but what worries me are these shadow shot callers within the Justice Department who act like nothing is happening while running death squads and secret war nonstop and we don't even know who they are.

By the time someone like Benson or his students get called in to resolve an open conflict situation by force, it will be the result of secret warfare getting out of hand and someone thinking they need to put down a larger autonomous zone by force. It might be interesting to revisit his scenario and game it out but it was so far out of whack I saw it as a distraction.

More relevant would be study into the. British secret war against remaining armed elements of the IRA from 1995-2005, the FBI vs AIM 1972-1989ish, FBI vs Black panthers 1965-1985. If. I remember correctly, Benson was mainly looking at the civil war as his example.

I think something somewhat worth looking at too is the breakup of the Rajneesh cult in Oregon in the late 1980's. They never totally went away and are an interesting study in how rapidly you can grow an autonomous zone into county control. They quickly dissipated on their own when they came under government pressure but a lot of that hadn't do with a number of incidents which brought them into conflict with the local power structure. They spent a lot of effort buying favor from the poor and then constantly had conflict with the local redneck types.