4th generation warfare & proxy wars
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The Cost of America's Secret Wars, Then and Now - Esquire
The constitutional distance between what President Obama is doing and "The Enterprise," which was the Reagan administration's term for the foolishness from El Salvador's death squads all the way through Iran-Contra, is not vast. Photos by Gamma-Keystone via Getty (top); Alex Wong/Getty (left) On Sunday, I went to early Mass at Gesu Church, the baronial old Jesuit pile on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, and the place I would go on Sundays during college to ask the Lord for forgiveness for whatever several commandments I may have left in the shebeen the night before. During what we used to call The Prayer of the Faithful, which comes immediately after the Homily, we prayed for the souls of Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, four Catholic missionaries who were beaten, raped, and murdered by a death squad in El Salvador in 1980.4GW -- FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE - Global Guerrillas
4GW (fourth generation wafare) is the term used by military thinkers to describe conflict at the end of the 20th century. In general, 4GW is an extremely effective method of warfare that the US and its allies will find very difficult to defeat (a slow burn, rather than complete eradication, may be the best possible outcome). I have outlined the basics of 4GW warfare below to enhance your understanding of the term. Undermines enemy strengths (this may seem obvious, but most of modern warfare has involved direct attacks on enemy strengths -- find the enemy army and destroy it). Many of the methods used in 4GW aren't new and have robust historical precedent.
Iran is, and has been for many years, surrounded by US Military installations. We talk about the U.S. strategy to encircle China, but you rarely hear about the way in which Iran is, and has been encircled by U.S. military bases for many years. When they you hear that Iran is a threat to the United States, you picture a us, here in the U.S. as potential victims. When you hear the term ‘containment’ in relation to Iran, you think, perhaps, that something needs to be done. After all, we have bases and military trainers and other military representatives in dangerous countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. But wait, if those countries have bases, isn’t Iran pretty well contained?
U.S. Military Encirclement of Iran | Fellowship of Reconciliation
Darpa’s Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents | Danger Room | Wired.com
WikiLeakers may have to think twice before clicking on that “classified” document. It could be the digital smoking gun that points back at them. Darpa-funded researchers are building a program for “generating and distributing believable misinformation.” The ultimate goal is to plant auto-generated, bogus documents in classified networks and program them to track down intruders’ movements, a military research abstract reveals. “We want to flood adversaries with information that’s bogus, but looks real,” says Salvatore Stolfo, the Columbia University computer science professor leading the project. “This will confound and misdirect them.”Wesley Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr. (born December 23, 1944) is a retired general of the United States Army . Graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point , he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics , and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science . He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense , receiving many military decorations , several honorary knighthoods , and a Presidential Medal of Freedom . Clark commanded Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War during his term as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000.
Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing “incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities,” was the province of the American storyteller. A machine might imitate simple formulas behind yarns, but never quite master them. The Pentagon’s freewheeling research arm is hoping to prove Twain wrong. Darpa is asking scientists to “take narratives and make them quantitatively analyzable in a rigorous, transparent and repeatable fashion.”
Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda | Danger Room | Wired.com
World Military Spending — Global Issues
The global financial and economic crisis has resulted in many nations cutting back on all sorts of public spending (often against the criticism of targeting sectors that were not responsible for the crisis), and yet military spending seems to be increasing. How is that justified? It should be noted that just before the crisis hit, many nations were enjoying either high economic growth or far easier access to credit without any knowledge of what was to come. A combination of factors explained increased military spending in recent years before the economic crisis as earlier SIPRI reports had also noted, for example: The last point refers to rapidly developing nations like China and India that have seen their economies boom in recent years.
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