Steven Aftergood: US Army Intelligence Support to Urban Operations

IO Impotency, Military
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

Intelligence Support to Urban Military Operations

To the eyes of a military planner, a city presents “an elaborate combination of horizontal, vertical, interior, and exterior forms superimposed on a landscape’s natural relief, drainage, and vegetation.” A newly reissued U.S. Army manual contemplates the difficulties facing military action in the urban environment with a focus on intelligence collection. See Intelligence Support to Urban Operations, TC 2-91.4, December 2015.   Read additional extracts.

CounterPunch: Origins of the Oregon Confrontation Between Ranches and Federal Government

Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government

counterpunch squareShowdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon

In the early 1990s, Hammond repeatedly transgressed federal environmental laws, trespassed on federal lands and hurled death threats at federal wildlife officials. Little action was taken against Hammond by a timid Clinton administration. Emboldened, Hammond and some of his fellow ranchers continued over the next two decades to flagrantly flout environmental laws and harass federal officials. These activities finally culminated in an act of poaching on Steens Mountain and two arson fires. Hammond and his son were convicted in federal court and sentenced to five years in prison. That conviction sparked the armed takeover of federal buildings now unfolding in Burns. Here is our report from 1995. — JSC

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Berto Jongman: Ukraine False Flag – Definitive

Corruption, Government
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Study Proves Maidan Snipers Were Western-Backed Opposition’s False Flag

Research conducted by the University of Ottawa on the Maidan “Snipers’ massacre” of February 2014 has shown that the killings of protestors were organized by far right paramilitary groups and allied political parties, not the former government’s Berkut riot police, as claimed by the current Kiev government and repeated by Western media.

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