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Irregular Warfare, Hybrid Threats, and the Future Role of Ground Forces

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Traditional threats are posed by states using recognized military capabilities and forces in comprehended forms of military campaign and conflict. Irregular threats are posed by an adversary employing unconventional, asymmetric methods and means to counter traditional U.S. advantages. These methods and means can include such means of irregular warfare as terrorism, insurgency and guerrilla war-fare, and can accompany economic, political, informational and cultural means as well. Catastrophic threats involve the acquisition, possession and use of nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological weapons – weapons of mass destruction (WMA). Disruptive threats involve an enemy using or developing new, breakthrough technolo-gies to reduce U.S. advantages. In war, a state actor will generally match available means—defined by a portion of gross domestic product matched to technological capability—to projected political end-states—contingency requirements planned against potential ad

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (prólogo e documentário)

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Website of John Perkins excerpt from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins P R O LO G U E Quito, Ecuador’s capital, stretches across a volcanic valley high in the Andes, at an altitude of nine thousand feet. Residents of this city, which was founded long before Columbus arrived in the Americas, are accustomed to seeing snow on the surrounding peaks, despite the fact that they live just a few miles south of the equator. The city of Shell, a frontier outpost and military base hacked out of Ecuador’s Amazon jungle to service the oil company whose name it bears, is nearly eight thousand feet lower than Quito. A steaming city, it is inhabited mostly by soldiers, oil workers, and the indigenous people from the Shuar and Kichwa tribes who work for them as prostitutes and laborers. To journey from one city to the other, you must travel a road that is both tortuous and breathtaking. Local people will tell you that during the trip you experience a

Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo (documentário)

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Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990. Hosted by Alison Suroosh Alvi | Originally released in 2011 at  http://vice.com Click here to help:  http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/ Watch more VICE documentaries here:  http://bit.ly/VICE-Presents Subscribe for videos that are actually good:  http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog:  http://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos Videos, daily editorial and more:  http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook:  http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr:  http://vicemag.tumblr.com

Attack Of The Drones (Military Documentary) | Real Stories

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They can move together in swarms, build towers, dance, throw and catch, assess targets and soon will even make their own decisions. Both in war and at home, drones are developing fast and gaining control. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesC... Instagram - @realstoriesdocs Twitter: https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocs Content licensed from JourneyManPictures. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Check out our new website for more incredible documentaries: HD and ad-free. https://goo.gl/LwMcmY Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu

Mercenaries in Iraq (documentário)

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Nigerian Hidden War (documentário)

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Firstly, on behalf of millions of Nigerians across the globe, we thank Channel 4 Dispatches Program for exposing the truth about the hidden war that is been waged in Nigeria against Nigerians by Boko Haram in connivance with Nigerian State Agents. We can assure you that we ordinary concerned Nigerians and friends of Nigeria will ensure that millions of innocent Nigerians demand justice. Once again, we thank you for this brilliant service to humanity with a high probability of saving lives in the future. ---------------------------------------- ­---------------------------------------- ­--------------- Dear Nigerians, Information reaching us since yesterday confirms our suspicion that Nigerian Government has used mutiny to BARRED OTHERS INCLUDING Nigerians across the world except UK to have access to this Video which confirms without any shred of doubt that Nigerian Armed Forces are committing act of genocide against Nigerians, especially thousands of innocent Northerne

Security dilema?

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A competência e capacidade de alguns chamados mercenários corporativos sempre retoma a questão já levantada sobre qual é o limite de fato da guerra. Em um ambiente totalmente irregular em que não se sabe quem é quem, desde as grandes guerras do século XX, o contrato de atores que resolveriam os problemas criados pelos estadistas é algo constante e acaba sendo fundamental, já que o Estado não pode ir de fato até onde ele gostaria, e nem sabe-se a capacidade que este teria de ir. A destruição total está fora de questão, então agir dentre um cenário permitido requer alguma sabedoria e capacidade técnica, operacional, estratégica, tática. De todos os chamados mercenários corporativos o mais significante é sem dúvidas  Eeben Barlow , veterano de forças especiais da África do Sul, além de grande administrador, tendo ele criado o que hoje em dia se conhece como PMC, tem capacidade tático-operacional para atuar em campo, fazendo com que a excelência nas operações da Executive Outcomes e atual

Guns for Hire (documentário)

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http://www.vonplantaproductions.com/ Date: November 2005 Location: Afghanistan Distributor: Sky One (15 May 2006) -- 46 min. Credits: directed and filmed by Claudio von Planta Reporter and Producer -- Sam Kiley / Co-Director and Producer - Jim Foster Editor -- Olivia Baldwin / Production Company -- Carbon HQ

Operatio Gladio

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A Espada!             Operações Especiais, espionagem, terrorismo, mercenarismo, nunca foram tabus dentro de instituições. Durante a Guerra Fria a OTAN em conjunto com a CIA comandou uma operação secreta que se chamou  Operatio Gladio  (Operação Espada), que mantinha uma rede por detrás das forças armadas da Itália, buscando informações do envolvimento de seus chefes de estado com o comunismo, tal qual o avanço da URSS ao ocidente. O cenário de operações era atuar na Europa e a estratégia era criar tensão impedindo uma ascensão da esquerda ao poder.             Assim após a queda do Muro de Berlim o mundo foi dividido em esferas, hostis entre si, vindas de um passado onde qualquer meio fora necessário para que fossem controladas. Dentre estes exemplos as ações da URSS diante da Hungria de da Checoslováquia. Porém não há dúvidas quanto a forma que o ocidente manteve seu poder diante da ameaça do oriente. Documentos revelados da Itália, Bélgica e Suíça mostram os meios não foram sem