This is a post attributed to Warrant Officer Eric Schwalm, an Army Special Forces Green Beret. I researched Eric, well not really “researched” and I couldn’t find anything substantial about him. Does he exist? I don’t know, but I also don’t really care. I have plenty of sources to verify the tactics he describes in his post. I ran them by a Green Beret, and a Navy Seal, both retired. The insurgency tactics are legitimate. My Green Beret instructed for several years on counterinsurgency at the War college.
In what I’ve seen, and that’s only what mainstream media will show me, this is organized insurgency. Minnesota government and law enforcement are all guilty of conspiracy. I hate to say it, but ICE should have been pulled out long ago. That’s not giving in to terrorism, that’s containing it. ICE should return and then we’ll see how organized it all is. I predict if they tried that we would see all this “spontaneous protest” would come back again.
Here is his post in its entirety.
"As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t 'protest.' It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace 'ICE agents' with 'occupying coalition forces' and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction, when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believes they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend its still just 'activism' until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil. "
-Eric Schwalm, Former Green Beret
I also feel this incident is a practice for future problems. When Minnesota ends somewhere else will “pop” up. I think this is insurgency and I hope the FBI is investigating. This, in my opinion, is full blown insurrection and nothing like other “protests”. Watching prior protests, you can see the paid “activists”. This takes it further and introduces more violence. As I said before, local law enforcement and elected officials should have a handle on this.
A crucial, yet little-known, law from 1878 is called the Posse Comitatus Act. This Act is a strong legal firewall built to separate two very different worlds: the world of the U.S. military, designed to fight foreign enemies, and the world of domestic law enforcement, responsible for keeping the peace at home. The founders of the United States were deeply suspicious of “standing armies” being used against the population, fearing it was a classic tool of tyranny. The Posse Comitatus Act is the modern embodiment of that fear. It establishes a fundamental rule: the U.S. Army and Air Force cannot be used as a domestic police force. While this firewall is strong, it's not absolute. It has critical, and often controversial, exceptions for emergencies like insurrection or natural disaster, making it one of the most important laws governing the balance of power and liberty in America.
I know for a fact that this Act has been ignored more than once. It is a little ambiguous with insurrection. Who decides if an event is insurrection or not? But Special Operations (SO) has a better handle on squashing insurrection than law enforcement (LE). I have nothing against LE. I think we have the best in the world. But I have a problem with LE’s command structure and their close over-sight from civilian politicians. Police Chiefs often come with Mayoral connections. Sherriff’s and DA’s are elected so they can be politically motivated. SO is mission oriented. I’m not advocating breaking the law by not keeping Posse Comitatus, but something needs to change. Even SWAT teams are not as effective against U.S. citizens. Police Chiefs need to learn from the military. They say they don’t want to militarize the police, but I say why the heck not? Why are military ways so repulsed by politicians and the public? We trust the military to fight against our foreign aggressors and don’t question their tactics, why is domestic so different? I think domestic is much worse because these are citizens that enjoy the freedoms of this great country and then they take that as a license to do what they want! Anyway, that just my opinion. I don’t think we need tanks in the town square like Tiananmen Square in China! But a good SO team could take this type of insurrection on with no problem.
But politicians in Minnesota are not very worried about taking care of this rather than running their narrative. But the whole point to this post is that this is not really the first time and it will not be the last. Be prepared if you find yourself near these protests.
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