Swarming Youths

Swarming Youths is a technique to focus the power of a group, especially young people/students, to obtain propaganda impact and eventually political impact. 'Swarming' refers to notion in Complexity theory that has been applied to military and propaganda tactics/strategy. Complexity theory indicates that a large number of agents operating with simple rules and reactions can yield highly complex/effective behavior. Researchers of mass psychology and this field of mathematics have studied how to implement simple rules and communication devices to enable a relative small group to obtain a concentrated impact. There is a body of research in this area in the military arena, but recently most of the research has focused on organizing civic groups to obtain a concentrated propaganda and political impact.

Application of the "Swarming Youth" concept
These techniques have applied by the CIA/NED and its affiliated organizations in the following cases:
 * Otpor – youth group in Serbia, instrumental in overthrowing Milosevic
 * Zubr in Belarus (2000 onward; active in the 2001 election)
 * Kmara in Republic of Georgia (active in the April 2003 elections)
 * Pora in Ukraine (active in June 2004 election).
 * Mjaft in Albania
 * Shebab in Lebanon (although they seem to have changed their name; shebab means youngsters in Arabic).
 * The students protesting in Tianamen square (1989)
 * Solidarnozc in Poland (although techniques were applied to unions and disenfranchized groups).
 * Critical Mass, a pro-cycling rights group in the United States that organizes demonstrations where bicycle riders congregate at a key locations wearing same color shirts. The group has been violently suppressed by police using anti-terror legislation.

External Resource

 * Jonathan Mowat, "The new Gladio in action?: Ukrainian postmodern coup completes testing of new template", Online Journal, March 19, 2005. Contains an overview of this type of manipulation.