Counter insurgency Ops in the 3I

[Matt123]

The 1860 census for the Southern States show a total population of 9,103,332, including slaves (5,582,222 non slaves & 3,521,110 slaves) per Wikipedia.

Info on occupation troop numbers online is sketchy. Only found two sites, both claim the North wound down thier army quickly after hostilities ceased. One site claimed 40,000 troops were left as occupation troops, the other claimed 15-20,000 troops.

Not what I was expecting after an article I read on counter-insurgency claimed a 'massive' occupation force. I guess massive is relative.

Ratio of 40,000 to 5,582,222 equals 7.1:1000
Ratio of 15,000 to 9,103,332 equals 1.6:1000, which seems rather 'light'.

To police a passive population takes one to four per thousand. (US '95 had 2.3:1000 sworn police officers, NZ today has roughly 1.95:1000).

 

[Garyius2003]

The army wasn't really policing the whole population, though. Most blacks who faced attacks (who they were protecting) lived in clusters in rural areas. Only a certain class of southerners were committing terrorist acts against them, so the protection detail was easier.

Add to that the Freedman's Bureau, which was another arm of the occupying federal government outside the army, who did all the social service/welfare stuff and acted as the intake arm for complaints, and you need a smaller force.

Yes, I know I skipped the issues with blacks elected to office. However, open killing of blacks and republican officeholders went into high mode after the start of the panic of 73, after federal judges had approved removing blacks from office under the theory that they had a federal right to vote but were not worthy of office. In 76 the democrats cut a deal with the new president where they would acknowledge his election, and in return he would withdraw federal troops and allow them free reign. By 88 the democrat party had control off all their states and removed most black officeholders--well after the troops were withdrawn. By the outbreak of violence in 73 the troops had already been drawn down to 6 thousand men on occupation duty, out of 40k total authorized army troops. Even so, after Colfax the army did manage to keep La down to small scale fighting and killings until they were withdrawn in 77.