Foreign Military Sales Expected To Top $20 billion in 2006
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"The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination."
Draft Defense Planning Guidance Lone Superpower Plan: Ammunition for Critics By PATRICK E. TYLER (NYT) excerpt from 1186 words NY Times: March 10, 1992 On Feb. 18, the draft "Defense Planning Guidance," prepared under the supervision of Paul D. … Read more . . .
Special forces: Development, Structure, Missions It is a self-evident truisim [that the] end of the Cold War and its reciprocal nuclear blackmail has not resulted in an era of universal peace. Rather, we have witnessed the resurgence of a multitude … Read more . . .
On the concept of Special Operations, see here.
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"There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."
Similarly, In a March 28, 1999 New York Times article, Thomas Friedman wrote: "For globalization to work, America can’t be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is… The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist – McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."
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More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
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Space Hawks Chase Death Rays http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70303-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 By John Lasker for Wired News Mar, 01, 2006 For more than a year, Bruce Gagnon strongly suspected he and his family were being spied on, but he didn’t have any evidence, and he … Read more . . .
UAE, Jolted by Port Deal, Is Key Western Arms Buyer Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23, 2006 (IPS) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the centre of a growing controversy over its proposed management of U.S. port terminals, is one … Read more . . .
Dick Chenex’s Song of America The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming … Read more . . .
Axis for PeaceAndreas von Bülow: ‘Our priority should be the fight against manipulation’by Andreas von Bülow* Former German minister and lawmaker, Andreas von Bulow was a member of the Parliamentary Secret Service Control Committee in which he disclosed the role … Read more . . .
NEW PENTAGON VISION TRANSFORMS WAR AGENDA Pentagon transformation is well underway. The U.S. military is increasingly being converted into a global oil protection service. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld has a "strategy guy" whose job is to teach this new … Read more . . .
Proposals by the International Herald Tribune
1. Increase active-duty soldiers by 100,000
2. Focus on real threats….to the U.S. (Chinese attack on Taiwan, North Korean attack on South Korea, islamic coup in Saudi Arabia), not on terrorism
3. Allow gay people to serve in the military forces and promote women participation in combat.
Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon05 March 2005 New Scientist David Hambling http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18524894.500 THE US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use … Read more . . .