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COUNTERINSURGENCY: ITS BLOODY HORRIBLE

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These are some of my favourite lines:

* counterinsurgency: it’s like a wild horse, only you bet on it;
* counterinsurgency involves a thousand small healing steps;
* the manual can never be wrong, only the practice;
* cultural knowledge for the military: it’s so basic and fundamental, absolute common sense; and,
* basic common sense makes you so very smart.

Making the “application of force” (called killing, by regular human beings) more precise…and that makes it “humanitarian.” They must imagine themselves to be at the helm of a Global SPCA.

“I read The Economist,” when I want to learn about Africa. Africanists and African anthropologists: you’re dismissed.

EMPIRE

So the empire uses its state power to gather private wealth for its investor class. And it uses its public wealth to shore up its state power and prevent other nations from self-developing.

When Michael Parenti's Against Empire was written in 1995, It was believed that U.S. rulers intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or to restore order in a troubled region or overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy

But by the year 2000, everyone started talking about the United States as an empire and writing books with titles like Sorrows of Empire, Follies of Empire, Twilight of Empire, or Empire of Illusions--- all referring to the United States when they spoke of empire.

imperialism is where the dominant investor interests in one country bring to bear their economic and military power upon another nation or region in order to expropriate its land, labor, natural resources, capital, and markets

Empires are enormously profitable for the dominant economic interests of the imperial nation but enormously costly to the people of the colonized country.

Obama and the national security state for which he works are waging two and a half wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, and northern Pakistan) with military threats against Yemen, Iran, and, on a slow day, North Korea.

(The graph is misleading. When everything is added up, including all the black budget items, it easily tops 1 trillion)

TALIBAN WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

Strategic stability and Strategic Anarchy

all anti american forces, have a grand strategic opporrtunity to humble USA at a nominal cost in the entire region bettween Casaablanca to Dakhalin. american interests and Amercicna installations are located in such a widespread area that USA a with its entire might cannot defend all of its many assets at all times.

Final phase: a periof of exploitation of USA's exhaustion by other major players like Russia, China, EU. The USA may be unable to initiate a policy of disengagement. The USA is in position of a man holding a wolf by the ears. It may be difficult to kill this wolf, but it is fatal to leave it. all that the anti US forces, open or covert need to do it is to assist the owlf, create new breeding areas for the wolves.

The stakes are high, the battle field vaster than any other battlefield in human history and the shades too many for the strategists eye to perceive or comprehend. The present third world war which started with 09/11 has no cenbter of gravity, no fixed battle lines, it is hundred dimensional, no rules, no morality, no boudaries aqnd no tangible end in sight. One thing is clear. USA' cheap sonsumerists society has a great deal of military muscle but a pathetic strategic vidsion. We salute the new age of Strategic anarchy.

TALIBAN WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

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US Strategy of Dual Central Position (by A. H. Amin) - Media Monitors Network

US Strategy of Dual Central Position (by A. H. Amin) - Media Monitors Network

“Dual central positions”

Afghanistan provides multiple strategic objectives
threaten both Russia and China
threaten both Pakistan and Iran
entire Central Asian Region
future Islamic Insurgency in Chinese Singkiang
independent Kashmir
Pakistani and Iranian Baluchistan

aerial strikes against Pakistan, Afghanistan combined with Baluchistan would create a US line of communication from Chah Bahar and Gwadar to Central Asia which would create a new base to launch deep strategic forays in Russia and China cutting off both from natural oil and gas reserves of Central Asia

severing the Russian line of communication with Oil and Gas rich Siberia

China and Russia (should) start aiding Afghan insurgents

Iraq is second central position.
Syria, Lebanon , Iran
Saudi Arabia in case a radical anti monarchist coup threatens
Turkey in case the Islamists gain greater strength
fix iran by Kurdish insurgency
Discipline Turkey by Kurd separatism
Dominate Middle East Oil ensuring strategic control on worlds economy

but all may not be at USA’s feet in case Syria remains defiant Iran assists Iraqi Shiites, Arab masses decide to remove the shackles

Dual Central Positions has germs of defeat. USA strategic objectives for which it has occupied Afghanistan
“ Final Solution of Pakistan’s WMD capability”
“ Domination of Central Asia and Western Iran”

Pakistan, not Iraq, is the centre of gravity of Islamic military resurgence

Afghanistan is where Islamist forces based in Pakistan train. Afghanistan is not a US objective but a staging area to deal with a strategic objective (s) i.e. Pakistan ,Iran ,Central Asia , China , Russia etc

Pakistan has to be neutralised
because it posseses WMD
and stands in between Chinese Singkiang and USA

Iran has to be neutralised
is a base of anti US/Israeli low intensity warrior groups

Afghanistan can prove dangerous for the USA. It is here that mother nature challenges US technology. no deserts where airpower can strike at will, no big urban targets like Baghdad capture of which can lead to the collapse of the whole house, no docile vassal states like Kuwait and Jordan.

One side is tribal area, One side is Iran, north is Russian Army

Therefore, more of a liability than a blessing. Any serious US move which threatens the strategic balance may bring China and Russia actively. Iraq security depends on Arab masses.

Low Intensity War i.e. War in the Shadows is far more complex than winning the Second World War with industrial might. There are no Hiroshima’s or Nagasakis in this region. The area is vast. More vast than air power capability, More rugged than Vietnam, More diverse, but races which inhabit it cannot be wiped out like Apaches,Sioux

This war for Mackinder’s Heartland will be fought in all parts of the world including all major US and European cities

The Cult of Counterinsurgency | The American Prospect

The Cult of Counterinsurgency | The American Prospect

Counterinsurgency means an attempt to defeat guerilla fighters who hide among a civilian population over an extended period of time, "low-intensity conflicts," French in Algeria, the British in Malaysia, and the Soviets in Afghanistan

current U.S. strategy based on French and English doctrine as well as Vietnam.

special allure for liberal writers because it offers a holistic approach, win the hearts and minds, transform autocratic governments into ones that respect human rights, women's education, and the rule of law.

Skeptics say warfare of the nastiest, most brutal kind, and it lasts for years and years. In the early days of Iraq, it was used on an ad-hoc basis to build relationships with local civilians in order to track down insurgents

It wasn't until Abu Ghraib scandal of 2004, Haditha in 2005 the need arose to re-evaluate wanton violence among some units. the dismal state of the war prompted Petraeus. In February 2006, Petraeus hosted a workshop, co-sponsored by Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights
in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

In COIN, civilian and military activities are integrated, cooperate with humanitarian workers in an effort to win over the local population, employs anthropological tools that map social networks

"the surge." to Iraq in 2007. The Washington Post Bob Woodward says High-Value Targeting, Anbar Awakening paying 100,000 individuals $300 a month. And Sunni tribal sheikhs make millions more through U.S. contracts. pullback by Muqtada al-Sadr.

These disparate elements have come together and tamped down the bloodshed

Still, the conventional wisdom is that Iraq has improved because of the new approach.

John Nagl does not like the word "colonialism, whether it is called neocolonialism or counterinsurgency, will be applied in various regions over the next several years.

The thinking man's war has a chapter on morals and values, big on hearts and minds. It has its own subculture, the rock stars (Nagl and Kilcullen celebrity couple (Kilcullen and Janine Davidson, author of the forthcoming book The Fog of Peace, a guru (Petraeus), and a cult-classic film (Battle of Algiers), a magazine (Small Wars Journal)

Nagl stands out. Counterinsurgency, as Nagl explains, is "80 percent political, 20 percent military." (He is quoting David Galula, "the Clausewitz of counterinsurgency. It could be modeled on the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, or CORDS which coordinated military and civil affairs in Vietnam.

Troops are studying manuals on cultural awareness and learning the basics of Islam. They are also learning how to fight in a civilian environment
The Marines are engaged, openly and passionately, in a discussion set in an empirically based field of study. Yet somehow they remind me of the guys in Reservoir Dogs -- jewelry thieves who join in a textual analysis of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" while sitting in a diner.

Counterterrorism is "the long war," and counterinsurgency is part of this effort. semantics matter. in Baghdad, they could find an insurgent or a terrorist.

counterinsurgency may also involve dirty tactic "the dark side." In Vietnam, "the dark side" was Operation Phoenix or the getting rid of Viet Cong leaders "by any means necessary, it was part of the CORDS program.

underlying ideas of Operation Phoenix have worked their way back into the U.S. military. The Iraq-era version of this is known as High-Value Targeting, house raids, "snatch missions," it used to be carried out by Special Forces only. Now, all troops conduct them. U.S. and NATO air strikes in Afghanistan have increased, "If you kill a very large number of civilians, you'll cow a population,"

Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It depends on how much "blood and treasure" you put into it. He is the author of Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, says U.S. troops should pull out of Afghanistan
I've been to Afghanistan. Basically, you'd have to kill every single Afghan and take all the children and put them in boarding school, preferably in England."

current policy, less about making the world safe for democracy than making the world safe for U.S. economic and political interests

Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan

Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan is a perfect case for
United States
Russia
to agree to tactical cooperation
yet that is not happening
Kyrgyz implosion impacts on regional stability, given the drug mafia and the militant Islamists waiting in the wings. Ethnic strife is opening the floodgates
only way out lies in collective security. But
most contentious issue. Who
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
problem
would tax Russian resources
Second
lacks a rapid reaction force. Third
legitimacy of the Kyrgyz
yet to be clarified
Fourth
quagmire
Finally
Tashken
feel uneasy
Washington
is passionately courting Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Clinton delegated Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake to visit refugee camps in the Uzbek region of Andizhan in the Ferghana Valley
speaking from a soil
Uzbek
suppressed a bloody uprising five years ago
irony was complete
Blake voiced
US demand for ''an international investigation
into the mayhem in Kyrgyzstan
United States
viewed
CSTO
vehicle
Russian domination
Washington counts on Tashkent to circumscribe
Moscow
The US
Organization for Security and Cooperation for Europe (OSCE)
appropriate vehicle of intervention by the international community
Moscow
objected
to use the OSCE for propaganda purposes under the garb of human-rights and election-monitoring functions or media freedom. So, why is the US proposing the OSCE
propaganda plane, it highlights the failure of Moscow and the CSTO to assume responsibilities
Moscow
butt of ridicule
as a bombastic regional power. Two, the CSTO gets debunked
vainglorious airs bu
lacks substance. Three, the US hopes to drive a wedge between Russia and
Kazakhstan, which
holds the
pos
of the OSCE
is hard-pressed to choose between the CSTO and the OSCE.
deeper US game plan
when Russia is
advancing
own proposal for a new European security treaty
if the OSCE is available
what
could be the raison d'etre of Moscow's proposal
OSCE's special envoy
Kimmo Kiliunen
OSCE is leading talks with
(EU)
beefing up security in Kyrgyzstan at a time when CSTO secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha is heading for Bishkek. The CSTO said in a statement in Moscow that a working group would evaluate the situation in Kyrgyzstan and "assist in law enforcement Russian position
Kyrgyz
should stabilize
themselves
US-Russia shadow play over a collective security
one constant
in favor of Moscow
Beijing supports the CSTO initiative
Chinese
so far
humanitarian assistance
flying out
nationals from
region of Osh
will be uneasy about the U
maneuvering
should
be consulting
SCO
first step to signal
China does not intend to sit back while the situation unravels
that Osh
an hour by flight from Urumqi
a Balkan-type crisis
nightmare to China
sensitive over the possibility of unrest among the Uyghur population
Beijing
counter the US strategy to project the OSCE into the security vacuum
first choice
CSTO
role for the SCO
SCO
statement identified that the ethnic strife was engineered with the intent of arousing a Kyrgyz-Uzbek "confrontation"
outside intervention isn't a crying need
"the stability of the situation in Kyrgyzstan is of great significance for peace and stability in Central Asia"
SCO has put its hat into the ring

The Romance of Counterinsurgency « sans everything

The Romance of Counterinsurgency « sans everything

For the last half-century, counterinsurgency has been the type of war that liberals are most likely to idealize. In theory, counterinsurgency sounds great: it’s war fought to win “the hearts and minds” of the people, war that involves building alliances with the local population, war done with the best of intentions, war as a giant social welfare program (with guns).

first great liberal embrace of counterinsurgency was the Kennedy administration Green Berets to fight guerrilla wars.

around 2003 some liberals once again took up the idea of counterinsurgency. it’s really development work and human rights, except the people will carry guns.

counterinsurgency is more brutal than conventional warfare which are all about seizing territories with one army fighting another and sometimes civilian casualties as a by product.

Counterinsurgency is to seize control “hearts and minds”. civilians are the chief target. Civilians are the battlefield. counterinsurgency is warfare aligned with nation building.

1977 study, “The Counterinsurgency Era,” the late Douglas Blaufarb, a former CIA agent who oversaw counterinsurgency operations in Laos addresses the problem of “self-reform in crisis.” where outsiders press for political reform

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, the notion that reforms can be carried out in a wartime situation by a beleaguered regime is “the fatal fallacy in the liberal theory of counterinsurgency, with the United States so often obliged to work through repressive local leadership, the reform component dwindled into ineffectual exhortation.”

Kennedy, the need to help poor countries develop politically and economically into modern nation states so that they can be strong enough to resist communism

Yet effective counterinsurgency often involves building up small tribal groups. by strengthening the Meo hill-people of Laos further frayed the social fabric of Laos

Counterinsurgency emphasis on improving social conditions and spreading democracy. Green Berets and the Peace Corps are the same reforming spirit

In Vietnam. As the war ground on harsher tactics appeared, targeting of enemy collaborators for assassination. In the infamous Phoenix Program that began in 1967, a direct outgrowth of counterinsurgency, the American government paid for the murder of thousands of civilians allegedly tied to the Viet Cong. This was precisely the type of program that turned many Americans against the Vietnam War

The US then went on elsewhere, in Guatemala.

Numbed by years of killing, peasants adopted a quietist philosophy that rejected both sides. in 1975, South Vietnam couldn’t rally its own population to resist.

Successful counterinsurgency involves a deep familiarity with the local culture. Gaining political legitimacy is the key to successfully defeating an insurgency. such popular support can take years and there is tension between security for one’s troops and winning popular support….

Free Thought Manifesto: Dismantling The Myth Of 9/11

Free Thought Manifesto: Dismantling The Myth Of 9/11

Their two main means: stealth and fraud. S&I] can involve the use of political and economic pressure, strikes, protest marches, and propaganda, and...the use of small-scale violence for the purpose of coercing...members of the population into giving support (p 3). Subversives stop with harassment, insurgents take up arms.

Growth in S&I, modern warfare, new ways of getting people to think and to act. Literacy, radio, and television S&I can use them to aggravate social discontent, racial ferment, nationalism, contempt for authority.

Set agents to work now in the early stages of subversion, penetrate small...highly secure targets. field officers prefer lots of low grade information.

Next, psyops as in propaganda, PR. offset the popular appeal of S&I's cause and enhance the government's story. Experts develop policy, technicians put the policy into films, programmes, articles, leaflets, and machines spread by broadcast, print, and projection.

counterorganize, build controls over the civil community. frustrate efforts by S&I, add good deeds to psyops, help remove sources of grievances, making contact with the people, teaching to the setting up of clinics, advising on simple construction works, and working on agricultural projects.

Nonviolent disorder--mass meetings, marches, strikes-- requires persuading multitudes to do something. This phase focuses on crowds, usually in cities. Use judicious promise of concessions, while] imposing ...calm by the use of government forces, stating that most of the concessions can only be implemented once...life...returns to normal. Civilians must look upon troops with ...respect and awe, the impression built used little force so far but at any moment use a great deal more can be used.

Open insurgency erupts, find armed groups and smash. collects and studies background information. to enable contact with the opponent, fish for information and then snuff out small groups...in large urban rabbit warrens.

Example of a simple Special Operation. cordonning of a [community examination of occupants by...informers concealed in hoods.

Technology helps. watch lists. remote interrogator, get the information by wireless to break down a prisoner without delay.

help remove sources of grievances making contact with the people, teaching to the setting up of clinics, advising on simple construction works, and working on agricultural projects



LOW INTENSITY OPERATIONS is the leading treatise on nonstop spying and deceit

Glick, Brian, WAR AT HOME: covert action against US activists and what we can do about it. some goals of COINTELPRO: Prevent the rise of a `messiah' who could unify...the militant black nationalist movement .... You must discredit these groups and individuals

Kucinich: ‘We may be funding our own killers in Afghanistan’

Get out! Really? "This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him. ... Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made" - re: Milo Minderbinder, from Catch 22. See also: Gen. Frank Kitson's "pseudo gang" strategy & Low Intensity Warfare. In Vietnam it was called the Phoenix Program.

On June 7, the day Afghanistan became America’s longest-ever war, the New York Times reported on an ongoing investigation poised to prove that private security companies "are using American money to bribe the Taliban" to fuel combat and thus enhance demand for their services. The news follows a "series of events last month that suggested all-out collusion with the insurgents," the Times said.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a leading opponent of the war, wondered, "Is the U.S. paying for attacks on U.S. troops?”

WASHINGTON AND THE KYRGYZ FUTURE - SECURING THE PIVOT

Washington and the Kyrgyz future—Securing the Pivot
by F. William Engdahl*

Long-term Pentagon Plan for Central Asia
Spreading a cancer across Central Asia
Spreading War via NDN
Low Intensity Warfare and PKO
Training the police…
A dubious Community Defense Initiative
NDN is the Key
NDN and Kyrgyzstan’s Batken ‘Anti-Terror’ center
Opium in the Central Asian War
US Military as Opium Exporter?
Conclusion

To this end, the U.S. is employing the time-tested tactics of Low Intensity Warfare to generate the pretext for NATO’s permanent expansion under guise of the ‘war on terror’, with opium gainfully fueling the operations. If successful in Central Asia, Washington will have achieved a ‘checkmate’ by effectively blocking any combination of nations on earth from opposing its agenda of Full Spectrum Dominance.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 a prime strategic objective of the Pentagon and of US intelligence has been to deeply penetrate the former Soviet states of Central Asia.