Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual

HeavensBlade23 writes in to let us know that Wikileaks has published a US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual, titled Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004). "The document, which has been verified, is official US Special Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."

Comments

Re:Did any of this need to be confirmed?

[damburger]

"The average peasant is not normally willing to fight to his death for his national government. His national government may have been a succession of corrupt dictators and inefficient bureaucrats." That sounds about right for us Americans.

Maybe someone who contributed was a John Lennon fan: "You think you're so clever and classless and free/But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see"

Re:Have to say it.

[Kamineko]

Callously and wilfully bolding as you find ncessary is excellent.

Re:Did any of this need to be confirmed?

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

Perhaps, just like with malice and incompetence, there is an equivalent relationship between cooked and bad intelligence.

Scratch that.

Perhaps, just like with perceived malice and perceived incompetence, there is an equivalent relationship between intelligence perceived to be cooked and perceived to be bad (by someone basing this on heresay).