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STANDING ORDER 5: Coopetition not Competition

All insurgent groups, regardless of their motivation, are allies by default.  Every group that joins the insurgency, makes it stronger, even if it is ideologically antagonistic.  The approach should be:

...coopetition not competition...

Coopetition is a term that encompasses how rivals can compete for market share but cooperate to grow the market and speed up combined growth.