[ArmySGT.]

2) The Lonestar Republic.

Know your enemy and know yourself then be victorious in 1000 battles. Sun Tzu.

The Lonestar Republic is in a perpetual state of war with the Brotherhood, breakaway elements internally, and cross border raids from other groups.

A) Interview traders to the area. The Brotherhood must still engage in trade if for nothing other than luxuries like tobacco, coffee, etc. Traders probably see little of the Brotherhood territory and operate only on the periphery. Even then valuable intelligence can be gained from local interactions. A large purchase of coffee or demands for large imports of coffee could signal a raid. Brotherhood leadership could be named and facts made known that can be pieced together to make a personality profile. The time taken for a messenger to make a round trip can help estimate distance a Leader is from a trade post.

B)ELINT. The Brotherhood is operating various pieces of Soviet equipment most with one, two, or three FM and even AM radios. It is unlikely that the Brotherhood is aware of radio discipline or communications security. This can be exploited in two ways, triangulation and spoofing. First is well known, making directional fixes from two or more points to locate an unknown point. Backtracing the signals to determine their direction and distance from friendly occupied territory. The second, spoofing, happens when an operator enters a radionet impersonating an enemy station. This can be requests for identification or location; even giving orders to retreat or relocate, thus causing disruption and confusion.

C) Snatch raids..... The mounted Cavalry of the Republic are ideal for this. A leader or important member of the Brotherhood is targeted for capture, to be returned to the Republic for a long and extensize interrogation.

D)Deliberate misdeeds....... The Republic, who does understand COMSEC (communications security) sometimes uses radio to confuse the Brotherhood as to the size and location of Republic Cavalry units. Using a corpse dressed in a Cavalry or Mexican army uniform false clues have been left for Brotherhood warriors to find, indicating a raid by Cavalry forces is going to happen, often causing a lot of disruption and shifting of forces by Brotherhood warriors. Sacks of grain with anthrax, sabotaged ammunition, and infected water have been left in Cavalry "Patrol Caches" deliberately to make Brotherhood warriors lives more "interesting". Occasionally, sabotage ammunition for rifle or pistol is left in Brotherhood territory to be "found".

E) Deep penetration long range patrols are sent into Mexico periodically either on horse or mule, sometimes by insertion from a ship to have observation on Brotherhood roads and infrastructure like farms, oil fields, water reservoirs, and camps.

F) Humint. The Republic has been unsuccessful in placing a spy within the Brotherhood itself. No spy has ever returned.