When presidential power is used to extend empire, to spread violence or to bomb sovereign nations, it always seems permissible to Congress and the corporate media. But using presidential power to help people, to close Guantánamo, „dramatically“ upsets the controlling interests in Congress and the media.

TRADOC Pamphlet 525

From the Chief of Staff of the Army

The Army Operating Concept (AOC) describes how future Army forces will prevent conflict, shape security environments, and win wars while operating as part of our Joint Force and working with multiple partners. The AOC guides future force development by identifying first order capabilities that the Army needs to support U.S. policy objectives. It provides the intellectual foundation and framework for learning and for applying what we learn to future
force development under Force 2025 and Beyond.

With US politicians and the American media engaged in an increasingly acrimonious debate over the strategy guiding the latest US war in the Middle East, the United States Army has unveiled a new document entitled the Army Operating Concept (AOC), which provides a “vision of future armed conflict” that has the most ominous implications. It is the latest in a series of documents in which the Pentagon has elaborated the underlying strategy of preventive war that was unveiled in 1992—that is, the use of war as a means of destroying potential geopolitical and economic rivals before they acquire sufficient power to block American domination of the globe.

The document was formally released at this week’s Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference, an annual event bringing together senior officers and Defense Department officials for a series of speeches and panel discussions, along with a giant trade show mounted by arms manufacturers to show off their latest weapons systems and pursue lucrative Pentagon contracts.

(7.7.2013) Abhörmethoden und Agenten: die Lauscher der achtziger Jahre in Berlin

1992 wurden sämtliche N.S.A.-Akten vom Bundesinnenministerium in Bonn angefordert und unter hohen Sicherheitsmassnahmen aus Berlin abgeholt – angeblich auf Verlangen Washingtons.

Weder die Regierung in Washington noch die Berliner Regierung hatten und haben ein Interesse darin, die jahrzehntealten Informationen aus den Lauschangriff-Kuppeln publik werden zu lassen.

2) Designate a Lead Organization to Coordinate and Synchronize Efforts. Whole-of-government political warfare efforts must have a designated lead organization to coordinate and synchronize planning and execution to achieve unified action. Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 23 U.S. Security Sector Assistance Policy advocates strengthening allies and partner nations to build their own security capacity. To do that, officials must “foster United States Government policy coherence and interagency collaboration.” Further,

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(4.10.2009) This significant, previously unpublished document (classified „RESTRICTED“, 2389 pages), is the UK military protocol for all security and counter-intelligence operations.

The Obama administration has put folks who leaked info to the media in jail for 526 months as compared to 24 months for all other Presidents combined. Admittedly, 420 of those months went to Chelsea Manning, but even if you take that out, we‘re still talking 106 months for other leakers in cases from this one administration vs. 24 months for all other administrations.

(14. Oktober) We are gathering together a coalition of Sunni Muslims to fight ISIS, but Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have been supporting the export of fanatical Islam for years. NATO ally Turkey has been letting foreign fighters cross into Syria to fight for ISIS, and keeping Kurds in so they can’t fight against ISIS. When vice president Biden pointed out these contradictions to Harvard students recently, he had to make formal apologies to our allies, thereby contradicting himself.

TUBİTAK was founded in 1963. Currently, TUBİTAK is working on a project of a new unmanned reconnaissance vehicle similar with American drone „Global Hawk“.

(24. September 2013) Privatisierung des Krieges: Verlagerung des öffentlich wahrgenommenen Kriegseinsatzes durch reguläre Armeen zu im Verborgenen agierenden Schattenarmeen – Kriege ausserhalb jeglicher parlamentarischer Kontrolle.

Am Donnerstag, den 19.September 2013 trafen sich in Genf in der Schweiz führende Vertreter der Sicherheitsindustrie, Mitglieder aus Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft sowie Regierungsvertreter teilnehmender Staaten zur Gründung eines lange vorbereiteten internationalen Aufsichtsgremiums über militärische private Auftragnehmer – der ICoC Association. Die wichtigsten Staaten, die hinter diesem Projekt stehen, sind die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, das Vereinigte Königreich, die (eigentlich neutrale) Schweiz und Australien.

As the fight against the Islamic State unfolds, the take of Erik Prince, the founder of the former private security firm Blackwater, is straightforward: If the United States is unwilling to send in ground troops, “let the private sector finish the job.”

Three members of the infamous Dutch biker gang “No Surrender” reportedly journeyed to Iraq and Syria last week in order to fight alongside Kurdish troops and against Islamic State (IS) militants.

Now, commenting on the legality of that move, the Dutch public prosecutor said Tuesday they are allowed to do so.

“Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it’s no longer forbidden,” the prosecutor’s spokesman, Wim de Bruin