Clark Griswold
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Well played. I only hope the new generation gets the reference....
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It's not Wing Attack Plan R but there is plan for a collapse of the DPRK.
OPLAN 5029
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPLAN_5029
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oplan-5029.htm
and the PLA is rumored to be ready also if the Worker's Paradise implodes.... Of Course China Has a Plan for North Korea Collapse
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And Vertigo still won't adopt a family from anywhere and allow them to share his home and his noble view of sharing with no borders. I hear there is a family from Liberia that needs someplace to stay until they clear quarantine.
US Southern Command is starting to get how serious a risk an unsecured border / illegal immigration is.
Kelly: Southcom Keeps Watch on Ebola SituationBy Jim Garamone
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2014 – The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility, the commander of U.S. Southern Command told an audience at the National Defense University here yesterday.
“By the end of the year, there’s supposed to be 1.4 million people infected with Ebola and 62 percent of them dying, according to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly said. “That’s horrific. And there is no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa.”
If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, many countries have little ability to deal with an outbreak of the disease, the general said.
“So, much like West Africa, it will rage for a period of time,” Kelly said.
This is a particularly possible scenario if the disease gets to Haiti or Central America, he said. If the disease gets to countries like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, it will cause a panic and people will flee the region, the general said.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”
Also, transnational criminal networks smuggle people and those people can be carrying Ebola, the general said. Kelly spoke of visiting the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with U.S. embassy personnel. At that time, a group of men “were waiting in line to pass into Nicaragua and then on their way north,” he recalled.
“The embassy person walked over and asked who they were and they told him they were from Liberia and they had been on the road about a week,” Kelly continued. “They met up with the network in Trinidad and now they were on their way to the United States -- illegally, of course.”
Those men, he said, “could have made it to New York City and still be within the incubation period for Ebola.”
Kelly said his command is in close contact with U.S. Africa Command to see what works and what does not as it prepares for a possible outbreak in the area of operations.
(Follow Jim Garamone on Twitter: @garamoneDoDNews)
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How many people in the US have been directly affected by ISIS...or even somewhat indirectly affected for that matter? My guess is that the number is extremely low. Now how many people in the US are being subsided by the governemnt for their food, healthcare, housing, and just overall spending desires? My gusss without a google search is north of 50 million (and I'm sure it's much higher than that). How many people in the country feel that evil cooporations are limiting their freedom? How many minorities are being told that it's 1960 again and if you vote for a certain political party that their Civil Rights will be restricted? Let's see what else...oh yes, war against women, war against inequality, etc. My point is that until people perceive ISIS and border security as a true threat, millions of people are more concerned about what the government can take from you to give to someone else. If you haven't already done so, read up on Saul Alinksy. He had figured out that if you can get a bunch of different groups angry about a central theme then you can appeal to all of those groups and win their support (ie votes)--this is how 'community organizing' works.
Why label the Fort Hood shooting as anything but 'workplace violence'? If you call it what it really is then some of the people I described above might start to think that politicians are not strong leaders, and these same politicians want you to buy into the entire grievance industry, not be concerned about a lack of security. And flu disclosure--I'm personally much more concnerned with what is coming across our borders than what is happening in Syria and Iraq (I personally believe that is a war for other nations to fight).
Agreed - a few years ago in the documentary "IOUSA" this point was made by a reporter, quoting him whose name escapes me now: "We're Americans, we don't do anything about anything until it is a crisis..." - perhaps this is the nature of a democracy or a symptom of a nation in decline, the former I hope.
No disagreement on where our border & immigration security should be on the list compared to ISIS vs. everyone else in the ME, as long as the oil keeps flowing and the suicidal hordes of jihadis keep it in the sandbox, that's about the best that place will ever be.
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Some Western countries are welcoming them back.
Another step in the slow motion suicide of Europe
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You actually sound surprised--joke is on you!
True - there are instances of insanity in our past but of late they have gotten much worse. What does the phrase "against all enemies foreign and domestic" mean to this dithering group of feckless, over-analyzing, limp wristed lawyers?
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If this guy is typical of those in charge, we're f*ck'ed...
FBI Director Stuns With His Answer to Question on Americans Who Fight Alongside Islamic State
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Except none of them get along with the people in the next town, let alone 690 miles away.
There is a limit on what the size of pan-Sunni / Islamic State could be but there is enough unifying the Sunnis by alienation & conflict with Alawites, Shia, and Kurds to overcome tribal / cultural differences. ISIS is really a mutation of the Ba'ath party with new and unfortunately improved brutality added in for more kick.
Pretty good article on Sunni support for ISIS:
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It will be interesting to see where the loyalties lie when the Gulf/Arab states start to weigh in... In my experience the Saudis are primarily interested in maintaining the Status Quo but who knows when a Caliphate is on the table. And then there is Jordan, Qatar, UAE, Lebenon...
The ruling class will fight like hell to keep the status quo but the rank and file, Arab nationalists and Islamist factions might go for it...
Getting rid of the nations created by Sykes-Picot would be huge F U to the West and hence might gather support across national boundaries - Nasser's dream of a pan-Arab state still appeals to a lot
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Back on frequency...
With Ebola in Dallas, drug resistant TB, the Enterovirus D68 now spreading in American & Canadian children is probably due to the 60,000+ illegal alien minors who are now in every state and ISIS interested in but not yet able (probably) to infiltrate thru the rusty screen door hanging by one hinge that is our southern and northern borders, are we finally at the point where Fortress America can be built? The need is so obvious that even selfish political & economic interests can be overcome?
DOCTOR: GOV’T ‘TIGHT-LIPPED’ ON RESPIRATORY VIRUS, MAY BE FROM ILLEGALS
Illegal immigrant brings drug-resistant TB case to Texas
The stable prosperous republic is being killed by the death of a thousand cuts...
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So what's the end state?
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Caught 3 ANA O's on the way to Canada to seek asylum.
http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/6843032-74/border-canada-military#axzz3E6PChaVp
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Pretty good articles, but like the second one says, Russians have been using some form of stealth and trickery for ages. So have the Germans. So has the United States. So has the British, Ottomans, Prussians, Romans and Greeks for centuries.
I think this type of soft warfare is exactly what we have to look forward to with the coming conflict with China as well. The enemies are always going to attack us/more powerful alliances asymmetrically, just we have done to our enemies in wars past as well.
True - we all use dirty tricks or have in the past. My question is would we be willing in this time and with our political sensitivities (domestic and foreign) to stoke ethnic tensions, deliberately undermine civil governments with aid to TCO's, etc... the really unsavory parts of covert warfare.
I am not Machiavellian but with our national power not in decline but not as great in comparison to our past or to the power of our enemies and rivals, will we need to use these tactics? My two cents is that our current and foreseeable crop of civilian leaders in the executive branch will not go for them though they are probably what could be politically possible as they have plausible deniability, low cost, low risk to uniformed personnel but given our highly polarized / dysfunctional federal government not likely.
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Words fail me.
Why do I think they will end up being used for other than the intended purpose?
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/automatic-sperm-extractor-introduced-chinese-hospital
Orders to freshmen dorms up 10,000%
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NATO Is Acting Like It’s 1985
‘Maskirovka’ Is Russian Secret WarGood articles on next-gen warfare as practiced by the Russians.
Question comes to mind: Can we do the same to them in areas that they tenuously control or destabilize their allies the same way? If so legally, then morally?
Thoughts?
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Looks like Number 5 is flying
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We need some new toys for this old war. Space based lasers.
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They would be evil rods of course...
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A potentially career-ending job where I will be raked over the coals every time a subordinate makes a mistake? Sign me up!
Amen - Every time at a previous assignment I saw in the base paper or on Friday at the gate a commander, first shirt and some hapless individual who got a DUI in blues passing out flyers for AADD; I had less and less faith in the ability of the AF as an institution to make rational HR decisions. I can't remember how many times the new boss, DO, first shirt, wing king, etc... gives the same speech and emphasizes DUIs, Sexual Harassment, etc... won't be tolerated and inevitably when a screw up happens, it's not just the individual's fault but leadership as if they had told said individual just one more time not to booze up and drive, he/she wouldn't have done it...
Just a casual observation but it seems the AF and Navy have the market on shit-canning leaders for infractions of those they command, anyone see the Army or USMC employ the same "one and done" mentality for subordinate infractions?
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Not surprising about Turkey, Erodgan is an Islamist in sheep's clothing with a pack of thugs to enforce Sharia soon enough... the worry about the PKK getting more and better arms is in some sense valid but really they want a victory of sorts for IS to thwart the Shia / Alawites of Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Islamist Turkish Politician: ‘Christianity Is No Longer a Religion’
Erdogan approves law tightening Turkey's Internet controls
A 60 minutes story I saw a while ago about the treatment of the Christian church in Turkey
Jordan is who and where we should court for air bases as King Abdullah is not on their list of BFFs...
ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, 'Slaughter' King Abdullah
But a new Yankee Station in the Eastern Med might be all we get to attack ISIS for now.
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Break out the alert pads and Fulda Gap plans!
Oh yes... back to the good ole days... but it would not hurt to have a show of force like the old days, say a 20 bomber force in 4 formations non-stop unannounced to Europe, drop in ranges in Finland, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Russia's been flexing nuts as they say, it's time to return the favor.
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The world is starting to make sense again. Russians are back to being the bad guys we all knew them to be.
True - the Russians are reprising their traditional spoiler role in the world but as to the general's comments not surprising. The Russians rely on or plan on tactical nukes in potential conflicts with peer advisories. This just gives the Euros a little more reason to be nervous. The Ruskies have a HUGE advantage over NATO in terms of number and delivery of tactical nukes and if you really want to give Putin an ulcer, you would close this gap.
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AF to chop C-27J?
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A visual is necessary to comprehend the monumental waste.
US-funded Afghan C-27s scrapped for 6 cents per pound