The first, and most general, standing order of any modern insurgency is simple:
...break networks...
The only caveat being: avoid breaking communications networks. These networks are small group enablers/catalysts, and enable the spread of social contagion virally. Public communications networks, as they are currently use, are asymmetric -- in that they aren't accessible (increasingly less as governments restrict access) by modern nation-states.
Within John Boyd's framework of grand strategic victory, this achieves the following:
- It disconnects the enemy from itself and its allies (attrition and physical collapse)
- It forms non-cooperative centers of gravity within the enemy camp (moral collapse)
- It creates FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt -- psychological collapse)