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2015/12/20

Mongoose: ISIS Leader “We Are Funded By The Obama Administration”

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ISIS Leader: We Are Funded By The Obama Administration

Yousaf al Salafi, a man believed to be the Pakistani commander of Islamic State (ISIS), claims that confessed that he has been receiving money through the United States. Al-Salafi made his claims during an interrogation by the Pakistani government. Salafi confessed that he “received money to recruit young people to fight in Syria and that the United States paid him $600 a head for anyone that joined.” Michael Flynn, former director of Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency, said in the months following al Salafi’s admission that he warned the Obama administration three years ago that the groups they were funding in Syria were actually Islamic jihadists.

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2015/10/312016/12/08

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy

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Robert David Steele Vivas

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017.

Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series.

Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele

This is the author's preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused on the future of the US Army as an expeditionary force in a complex world that is rapidly decentralizing while also facing major development challenges. A revised draft is provide at DOC below but the online full-text version has not been updated.

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/2016-Grand-Strategy

DOC (56 Pages): EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 1 Grand Strategy 2.4 LINKS

KINDLE (99 cents): An American Grand Strategy: Evidence-Based, Affordable, Balanced, Flexible

See Also:

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Army Operations, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication December 2016.

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication December 2016.

Full Text with Graphics Below the Fold (Links Added)

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2015/10/302015/10/30

Mongoose: China Watch — HORRORS

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23 Shocking Photos Reveal How Bad China’s Pollution Problem Has Become

Pollution In China

Phi Beta Iota: America the Beautiful is in the dumps right now, but these photographs put our national well-being in sharp relief compared to the horrors being endured by the Chinese people.

2015/10/052015/10/06

Owl: Chinese Aircraft Carrier in Syria? UPDATE 1 Debka Lies…

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Aircraft come in November.

A Chinese aircraft carrier docks at Tartus to support Russian-Iranian military buildup

Chinese warplanes to join Russian air strikes in Syria. Russia gains Iraqi air base

UPDATE 1: Debka lies… No one can find the carrier, no photo of it anywhere near Syria.

Chinese naval expert denies PLA joining fight against ISIS

China's Main Mission: South China Sea, Not Syria

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2015/09/282015/09/26

Michael Kearns: Absent US Change, Nuclear War Likely

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‘Nuclear war our likely future': Russia & China won't accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns

Key quote:

… the “price of world peace is the world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony.”

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2015/09/282015/09/27

Berto Jongman: Russian Nonlinear War (“Gerasimov Doctrine”) — While US in Stuck in One Size Fits All Big War

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Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian Nonlinear War Through Modern Chinese Doctrine

Victor R. Morris in Small Wars Journal, 17 September 2015

Unrestricted war is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions. It takes nonmilitary forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future.

-Colonel Qiao Liang and Colonel Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted War, Beijing, 1998

“Gerasimov Doctrine” contains particular similarities to the Chinese doctrine outlined in Unrestricted Warfare published in 1999, and historical roots in previous Russian doctrine. Both strategies involve using proxies, or surrogates, to not only exploit vulnerabilities in low intensity conflict, but to also prepare for future operations, which may involve high intensity conflict. Other strategies involve applying both low and high tech asymmetrical means, and also engaging in several forms of war. For example, Unrestricted Warfare describes 13 forms of “total war” and methods to consciously mix “cocktails” on the battlefield, or to employ combinations of forms of warfare in order to find innovative and effective approaches.

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