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2017-11-28 Africa Subsaharan

The Niger Ambush - The Toxic Mix of AFRICOM and Human Terrain Operations

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-28 04:15|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 HTS has been charged with exacerbating tensions between various indigenous groups and tribes to create intelligence "opportunities" for the US military.

The "opportunity" to gather intelligence (by constantly stirring shi* up) is simply an intermediate objective. The long-term goal is political regime change. But of course the ownership of regime change resides not with the Army, but elsewhere.

Evil Russian hackers and political election interlopers, they're everywhere I tell you.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-28 04:40|| 2017-11-28 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists possessing higher degrees

As a member, I would say this community fails in good science by maintaining the false hope of 'What they are is what they do.' Not so from this soapbox. The many incursions into Eastern and Western Asia and now Africa continue to demonstrate cultures of differentiated behavior and decision making processes. Local normality is not Global rationality, no matter how much we should want to make it so. Tough to blame on the Oval Office when these facts have been ignored for hundreds of years.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-28 09:44|| 2017-11-28 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists possessing higher degrees

Referred to as the "squishy" parts of academia or the black arts.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-28 11:04|| 2017-11-28 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 How many of these programs are holdovers from Obama or even Bush regimes?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-28 11:28|| 2017-11-28 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 GW Bush 2005

Human Terrain System

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-28 14:10|| 2017-11-28 14:10|| Front Page Top

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