Reddit reviews Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History

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>A mainstream media and academic expert this week issued a rare admission: that pretty much everything the establishment has fed the public on Syria is false or distorted; but it remains that after tragic eight-year long war is slowly coming to a close, new indisputable facts are coming to light. "Truth did not matter at all," he admits after years of providing commentary for mainstream publications.
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>In a lengthy thread on Twitter, counter-terrorism author and assistant professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University Max Abrahms exposed how he saw the 'narrative managers' at work from the inside of the establishment think tank world and media. As his own research came to uncover and document the truth of what was happening in Syria, "the media would excise me and the research from their stories" he revealed. His work in the early years of the war appeared in The New York Times and other major outlets, however, he was increasingly censored and pushed out of a number of platforms for speaking inconvenient truths. 
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>Below is his full commentary, written in the wake of the new OPCW leaks which the mainstream is still trying hard to ignore.

I just listened to a Radio War Nerd podcast about this. Unfortunately it's paywalled behind a $5-a-month patreon, though I would certainly recommend the podcast to anyone interested in geopolitics. The interview was with Max Abrahms, who has a book coming out called Rules for Rebels, a quantitative analysis of which factors contribute to the success or failure of a rebel group