The video below is long but powerful; Max Boot: Lessons from the History of Guerilla Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMCcqRc9C0
The
consequences and patterns of war, whether by one nation against another or by a
government against the citizenry, rarely change. However, the methods of war
have evolved vastly in modern times. Wars by elites against populations are
often so subtle that many people might not even recognize that they are under
attack until it is too late. Whenever I examine the
conceptions of “potential war” between individuals and oligarchy, invariably
some hard-headed person cries out: “What do you mean ‘when?’ We are at war
right now!” In this case, I am not talking about the subtle brand of war. I am
not talking about the information war, the propaganda war, the economic war,
the psychological war or the biological war. I am talking about outright
warfare, and anyone who thinks we have already reached that point has no clue
what real war looks like.
The
recent exposure of the nationwide Jade Helm 15 exercise has made many people
suspicious, and with good reason. Federal crisis exercises have a strange historical tendency to
suddenly coincide with very real crisis events, e.g. 9-11, The Boston Marathon, Sandy Hook, and 7-7 in London. . We may know very little about Jade Helm beyond government admissions, claims
and mis-directions. But at the very least, we know what “JADE” is an acronym
for: Joint Assistance for Deployment and Execution, a PROGRAM
designed to create action and deployment plans using
computer models meant to speed up reaction times for military planners during a
“crisis scenario.” It is linked with another PROGRAMcalled ACOA
(Adaptive Course of Action), the basis of which is essentially the use of past
mission successes and computer models to plan future missions. Both are
products of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
As
far as I know, no one has presented any hard evidence as to what “HELM” really
stands for, but the JADE portion of the exercise explicitly focuses on rapid force
deployment planning in crisis situations, ACCORDING
to the
government white paper linked above. This fact alone brings into question
statements by the Department of Defense that Jade Helm is nothing more than a
training program to prepare military units for “foreign deployment.” This is
clearly a lie if Jade Helm revolves around crisis events (which denotes
domestic threats), rather than foreign operations.
Of
course, if you also consider the reality that special operations forces always train like they fight and train in environments similar to where they will
fight, the entire notion of Jade Helm as a preparation for foreign theaters
sounds absurd. If special operations forces are going to fight in Iraq, Iran or
Syria, they go to training grounds in places like Kuwait. If they are training
in places like Fort Lauderdale, Florida (including “infiltration training”),
then there is no way around the fact that they are practicing to fight
somewhere exactly like Fort Lauderdale with a similar culture and population.
I
would further note that Jade Helm exercises are also joint exercises with domestic agencies like the FBI
and the DEA. Again, why include domestic law enforcement agencies in a
military exercise merely meant to prepare troops for foreign operations?
I often hear the argument that the
military would never go along with such a program, but people who take this rather
presumptive position do not understand crisis psychology. In the event of
a national catastrophe many military personnel and government employees may
determine that they will do what is “best for them and their families”.
And if following orders guarantees the security of their families (food
security, shelter, etc), then they may very well follow any order, no matter
how dubious. Also, a large scale crisis could be used as a rationale for martial law; otherwise well
meaning military men and women could be convinced that the loss of
constitutional freedoms might be for the “greater good of the greater
number”. I believe some military will indeed resist such efforts, but of
course, Jade Helm may also be a method for vetting such uncooperative people
before any live operation occurs. Personally, I believe in a war or a national crisis the U.S. military will react like the German Wehrmacht of WWII. I hopr and pray that I am wrong in that belief.
So
if Jade is actually a crisis-planning system for the military and the military
is training for domestic operations, what is the crisis it is training to react
to? It’s hard to say. I believe it will come down to an economic disaster, but
our economic and social structures are so weak that almost any major event
could trigger collapse. Terror attacks,
cyberattacks, pandemic, unrest in a big city over police shooting, a stiff wind, you name it. The point is the government
expects a crisis to occur. And with the advent of this crisis, the ultimate war
on the American people will begin.
Why wait for a crisis situation? With
the cover of a crisis event, opposition to power is more easily targeted. For
my starting point on the elite war strategy, I would like to use the following
presentation on guerrilla warfare by Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
senior fellow and military adviser, at the elitist World Affairs Council.
I would first point out that Boot claims his work is merely a
historical character study of interesting figures from
the realm of insurgency and counterinsurgency and is not “polemical.” I’m
afraid that I will have call horse hockey on
that. Boot is direct adviser to the Department of Defense. His work and this
presentation were obviously a study of guerrilla tactics from the
perspective of counterinsurgency and an attempt to explore strategic methods
for controlling and eradicating guerrillas and “terrorists.”
Any defense the American people might
muster against elitist dismantling of constitutional liberties would inevitably
turn to “insurgency”. So using CFR member Boot’s views on counterinsurgency as
a guideline, here is how the elites will most likely wage open war on those
within the American population who have the will to fight back.
Control Public Opinion
Boot
stresses the absolute necessity for the control of public opinion in defeating
an insurgency. Most of his analysis is actually quite accurate in my view in terms of successes versus failures
of guerrilla movements. However, his obsession with public opinion is, in part,
ill-conceived. Boot uses the American Revolution as a supposed prime example of
public opinion working against the ruling powers, claiming that it was British
public opinion that forced parliament and King George III to pull back from further
operations in the colonies.
Now, it is important to recognize
that elitists have a recurring tendency to marginalize the success of the
American Revolution in particular as being a “fluke” in the historical record.
Boot, of course, completely overlooks the fact that the war had progressed far
longer than anyone had predicted and that the British leadership suffered under
the weight of considerable debts. He also overlooks the fact that
pro-independence colonials were far outnumbered by Tories loyal to the crown up
to the very end of the war. The revolution was never in a majority position,
and public opinion was not on the revolutionaries side.
The picture above is Nathan Hale just before his hanging. The very idea of the American
Revolution is a bit of a bruise on the collective ego of the elites, and their
bias leads them to make inaccurate studies of the event. The reality is that
most revolutions, even successful ones, remain in a minority for most, if not
all, of their life spans. The majority of people do not participate in
history. Rather, they have a tendency to float helplessly in the tides,
waiting to latch onto whatever minority movement seems to be winning at the
time.
Boot suggests that had the Founding
Fathers faced the Roman Empire rather than the British Empire, they would have
been crucified and the rebellion would have immediately floundered because the
Romans had no concern for public opinion. This is where we get into the real
mind of the elitist.
For now, the establishment chooses to
sway public opinion with carefully crafted disinformation. But what is the best way
to deal with public opinion when fighting a modern revolution? Remove public
opinion as a factor entirely so that the power elite are free to act as
viciously as they wish. Engineered crisis, and economic crisis in particular, create a wash of other potential threats,
including high crime, looting, riots, starvation, international conflict, etc.
In such an environment, public opinion counts for very little, if people even
pay attention at all to anything beyond their own desperation. Once this is
achieved, the oligarchy has free reign to take morally questionable actions
without fear of future blowback.
Control The Public
Another main tenet Boot describes as
essential in defeating insurgency is the control of the general population in
order to prevent a revolution from recruiting new members and to prevent them
from using the crowd as cover. He makes it clear that control of the public
does not mean winning the “hearts and minds” in a diplomatic sense, but
dominating through tactical and psychological means.
He first presents the example of the
French counterinsurgency in Algeria, see photo above, stating that the French strategy of
widespread torture, while “morally reprehensible,” was indeed successful in
seeking out and destroying the insurgent leadership. Where the French went
wrong, however, was their inability to keep the torture campaign quiet. Boot
once again uses the public opinion argument as the reason for the eventual loss
of Algeria by the French.
What Boot seems to be suggesting is
that systematic torture is viable, at least as a hypothetical strategy, as long
as it remains undetected by the overall public. He also reiterates this
indirectly in his final list of articles for insurgency and counterinsurgency
when he states that “few counterinsurgencies (governments) have succeeded by
inflicting mass terror, at least in foreign lands,” suggesting that mass terror
may be an option against a domestic rebellion.
Boot then goes on to describe a more
effective scenario, the British success against insurgents in Malaya. He
attributes the British win against the rebellion to three factors:
1) The British separated large portions of the population,
entire villages, into concentration camps, surrounded by fences and armed
guards. This kept the insurgents from recruiting from the more downtrodden or
dissatisfied classes. And it isolated them into areas where they could be more
easily engaged.
2) The British used special operations forces to TARGET
specific
rebel groups and leadership rather than attempting to maneuver through vast
areas in a pointless Vietnam-style surge.
3) The British made promises that appealed to the general
public, including the promise of independence. This made the public more
pliable and more willing to cooperate.
Now, I have no expectation whatsoever
that the elites would offer the American public “independence” for their
cooperation in battling a patriot insurgency, but I do think they would offer
something perhaps more enticing: safety.
I believe the British/Malayan example
given by Boot would be the main methodology for the elites and the federal
government in the event that a rebellion arises in the U.S. against planned
shifts away from constitutional republic or martial law instituted in the wake
of a national emergency.
Isolate Population Centers
There is a reason why certain
American cities are being buried in technologically sophisticated biometric
surveillance networks, and I think the Malayan example holds the key. Certain
cities (not all) could be turned into massive isolated camps, or “green zones” Agenda 21. They would be tightly controlled, and travel would be highly restricted. Food,
shelter and safety would likely be offered, after a period of disaster has
already been experienced. A couple months of famine and lack of medication to
the medically dependent would no doubt kill millions of people. Unprepared
survivors would flock to these areas in the hopes of receiving aid. Government
forces would confiscate vital supplies in rural areas whenever possible in order
to force even more people to concentrate into controlled regions.
We have seen the isolation strategy in
action in part, during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. More than 4,000 police and
National Guard troops locked down the city center, leaving only one route for
travel. The first day, there were almost no protesters; most activists were so
frightened by the shock-and-awe show of force that they would not leave their
homes. This is the closest example I have personally experienced to a martial
law city scape.
Decapitate Leadership
The liberty movement has always been
a leaderless movement, which makes the “night of long knives” approach slightly
less effective. I do not see any immediate advantage to the elites in
kidnapping or killing prominent members of the movement, though that does not
mean they will not try it anyway. Most well-known liberty proponents are
teachers, not generals or political firebrands. Teachers leave all their
teachings behind, and no one needs generals or politicians.
That said, there is a fear factor
involved in such an event. The black-bagging of popular liberty voices could
terrorize others into submission or inaction. This is why I constantly argue
the need for individual leadership; every person must be able and willing to
take individual action without direction in defense of his own freedoms, if the
need arises. Groups should remain locally led, and national centralization of
leadership should be avoided at all costs.
ACCORDING to the very promoters of Jade Helm exercises, training
will center on quick-reaction teams striking an area with helicopter support,
then ex-filtrating within 30 minutes or less. Almost every combat veteran I have
spoken with concerning this style of training has said that it is used for
“snatch and grab” — the capture or killing of high value targets, then
ex-filtration before the enemy can mount a response. Patriots, this is exactly the operations I saw and participated in Iraq when I was there. It involves a high degree of aerial surveillance and watching the enemy on computers.
Fourth-Generation Warfare
The final method for war against the
American people is one Boot does not discuss: the use of fourth-generation
warfare. Some call this psychological warfare, but it is far more than that.
Fourth-generation warfare is a strategy by which one section of a population
you wish to control is turned against another section of the population you
wish to control. It is warfare without the immediate use of armies. Rather, the
elites turn the enemy population against itself and allow internal war to do
most of their work for them. We can see this strategy developing already in the
U.S. in the manipulation of race issues and the militarization of police.
The use of provocateurs during unrest
in places like Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore suggests that a race war is
part of the greater plan. I believe law enforcement officials have also been
given a false sense of invincibility. With military toys and federal funding,
but poor tactical philosophies and substandard training, law enforcement officers (LEOs) are being set up
as cannon fodder when the SHTF. Their inevitable failure will be used as a
rationalization for more domestic military involvement; but in the meantime,
Americans will be enticed to fight and kill each other while the elites sit
back and watch the show.
4th Gen warfare also relies on
fooling the TARGET
population
into supporting measures that are secretly destructive to the people. For
example, liberty movement support for controlled opposition such as Russia or
China, or liberty support for a military coup in which the top brass are elite
puppets just like the Obama Administration. Think this sounds far
fetched? It has already happened in our recent history! Marine Corp
Major General Smedley Butler was hired by corporate moguls to lead a paid army
in a coup against Franklin D. Roosevelt (also an elitist puppet) in 1933.
Butler luckily exposed the conspiracy before it ever got off the ground.
Both sides were controlled, but the coup if successful could have resulted in
popular support for the expedient erosion of the Constitution, rather than a
slow erosion which is what took place. This is the epitome of 4th Gen
tactics – make the people think they are winning, when they are actually
helping you to defeat them.
Know Thy Enemy
I
have outlined the above tactics not because I necessarily think they will
prevail, but because it is important that we know exactly what we are dealing
with in order to better defend ourselves. Such methods can be countered with
community preparedness, the avoidance of central leadership, the application of
random actions rather than predictable actions, etc. Most of all, liberty
champions will have to provide a certain level of safety and SECURITY
for the
people around them if they want to disrupt establishment efforts to lure or
force the population into controlled regions. Crisis is the best weapon the
elites have at their disposal, and exercises like Jade Helm show that they may use that weapon in
the near term. The defense that defeats crisis is preparation — preparation not
just for yourself, but for others around you. War is coming, and while we can’t
know the exact timing, we can assume the worst and do our best to be ready for
it as quickly as possible.
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