Mountains Are The Revolutionaries Friend

"Many of the world's most entrenched conflicts take place in mountains, and we neglect this fact at our peril. Far from being irrelevant, these remote, often archaic, and seemingly exotic exceptional communities are enormously important to the future safety and stability of the world at large. The mountain is friend to those who want to elude or destroy authority - the revolutionary, the poppy grower, the Jihadi, to name only a few. Mountains are the last place where roads are built and the first place people go to hide."

- Judith Matloff. No Friends But The Mountains.