quarta-feira, 27 de maio de 2015

Russian Spetsnaz Army FSB ФСБ Centre 2013 Documentary (English Subtitles)




The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB; Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ), tr. Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnəjə ˈsluʐbə bʲɪzɐˈpasnəstʲɪ rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjɪ]) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the USSR's Committee for State Security (KGB). Its main responsibilities are within the country and include counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of grave crimes and federal law violations. It is headquartered in Lubyanka Square, Moscow's centre, in the main building of the former KGB. According to the 1995 Federal Law "On the Federal Security Service", direction of the FSB is executed by the president of Russia, who appoints the Director of FSB.

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quinta-feira, 21 de maio de 2015

Peter Warren Singer, "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know" | Authors at Goolge (palestra)



Cybersecurity and CyberWar discusses the cybersecurity issues that challenge everyone: politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to online freedom; generals protecting the nation from new forms of attack while planning new cyberwars; business executives defending firms from once unimaginable threats; lawyers and ethicists building new frameworks for right and wrong. In Cybersecurity and CyberWar, New York Times best-selling author Peter W. Singer and noted cyber expert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of easy-to-read, deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life. The book is structured around the key question areas of cyberspace and its security: how does it work and why does it matter? Also discussed are the important (and entertaining) issues and characters of cybersecurity, from the "Anonymous" hacker group and the Stuxnet computer virus to the new cyber units of the Chinese and US militaries. 


Peter W. Singer is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

terça-feira, 12 de maio de 2015

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima - 1985 - BBC - Arena - documentary



Here's a fascinating documentary about famous Japanese Writer and Nationalist Yukio Mishima.

This BBC produced documentary about Yukio Mishima highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality. Mishima was a pen name he adopted en route to his chosen life as a writer. He eventually became recognized as one of Japan's most prolific post-World War II writers, producing stories, plays and novels. He became tortured by his bisexuality/homosexuality and shyness around people as a young man. Both of these played a role in his work as did many other eventful occurrences throughout his life. Mishima had an admirable dedication to the forgotten samurai way of life and ideals, which later turned into an unhealthy obsession, culminating in the storming of a general's garrison on November 25, 1970. It was Mishima's way of combining beauty, art, and action; ultimately the garrison forced to assemble and listen to his speech on that day rejected him. Mishima gave his life for his ideals, however misguided and twisted one might think him to be. His literary output of 40 novels, 18 plays (both for Noh and Kabuki theater), 20 books of short stories, 20 books of essays, and a film remain a testament to his talent despite his simultaneous tendency, at times, to be commercial, controversial, and unconventional.

Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio?) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake?, January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century; he was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature[1] and was poised to win the prize in 1968 although lost the award to his fellow countryman Yasunari Kawabata, presumably because of his radical right-wing activities.[2] His avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change.[3] He is also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état attempt, known as the "Mishima Incident".

sexta-feira, 8 de maio de 2015

Jeremy Scahill on the Blackwater Security Scandal (2007)


On September 16, 2007, Blackwater military contractors shot at Iraqi civilians killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad. The fatalities occurred while a Blackwater Personal Security Detail (PSD) was clearing the way for a convoy of US State Department vehicles transporting diplomats to a meeting in western Baghdad with officials of the United States Agency for International Development. The killings outraged Iraqis and strained relations between Iraq and Washington.

Blackwater guards said that the convoy was ambushed and that they fired at the attackers in defense of the convoy. The Iraqi government and Iraqi police investigator Faris Saadi Abdul allege that the killings were unprovoked. The next day, Blackwater Worldwide's license to operate in Iraq was temporarily revoked. The US State Department has said that "innocent life was lost" and according to the Washington Post, a military report appeared to corroborate "the Iraqi government's contention that Blackwater was at fault." The Iraqi government vowed to punish Blackwater. The incident sparked at least five investigations, including one from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[10] The FBI investigation found that, of the 17 Iraqis killed by the guards, at least 14 were without cause.[11]

In September 2008 the U.S. charged five Blackwater guards with 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and a weapons violation but on December 31, 2009, a U.S. district judge dismissed all charges on the grounds that the case against the Blackwater guards had been improperly built on testimony given in exchange for immunity.[12] Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki harshly criticized the dismissal.[13] In April 2011 a US federal appeals court reinstated the manslaughter charges against Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Donald Ball after closed-door testimony. The court said "We find that the district court's findings depend on an erroneous view of the law,"[14] A fifth guard had his charges dismissed and Jeremy Ridgeway a sixth guard pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and attempted manslaughter. The proceedings against the four guards are ongoing.[15] On January 6, 2012 Blackwater settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of six of the victims, for an undisclosed sum.

terça-feira, 5 de maio de 2015

Inside ​Japan's Controversial Military Expansion



Rise of the Samurai: How Japan's growing military is setting off alarm bells both in Japan and around the world.

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As tensions with China continue to escalate, Japan is ramping up the role of its military as a deterrent power. But many are worried this aggressive posture will lead to a repeat of the mistakes of the past.

"As I don't know the purpose and intention of unidentified aircraft approaching our air space, I always become tense", says Sho Yoshida, a fighter pilot with Japan's Self Defence Forces. This unified military outfit was formed following the Allied occupation of Japan at the end of WW2, and is constitutionally restricted to defending the nation. But now a heightening feud with China over the disputed Senkaku Islands, as well as the country's proximity to a wildly unpredictable North Korea, has led Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reinterpret the legal framework that governs the SDF, with a view to transforming it into a force equipped for offensive operations. "Unless it has the power to strike, it cannot become a so-called 'deterrent power'", explains retired general Toshio Tamogami. And after a number of well-funded recruitment campaigns, enrolments at Japan's elite military college are at a record high. But not everyone here support the moves. "Japan has not really reflected on its past", bemoans Tadmasa Iwaii, a WW2 veteran and former Kamikaze-turned-pacifist. "It hurts my conscience."

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domingo, 3 de maio de 2015

'Mercenaries' do it better!

Seguir regras as vezes tem um preço bem caro!
Quando se tem uma legislação dentro de um país em conflito as vezes é complicado que os agentes de segurança pública exerçam seus trabalhos dentro da lei, principalmente quando uma polícia e uma força armada de segurança tem que tomar conta do governo, servir a população e travar uma guerrilha contra uma força fantasma.
No caso de um grupo terrorista como o Boko Haram, que está bem armado, e age com genocídios, torturas, amedrontando a população e não tendo uma frente regular diante das forças armadas, seguir as regras é difícil para conter a violência. Neste cenário de guerra irregular, atuar com uma força privada pode ter um maior êxito.

O governo Nigeriano ao contratar a STTEP International visando sanar o problema do avanço do Boko Haram, buscou ter o treinamento da antiga Executive Outcomes, e ter um melhor equipamento. Conseguiu com êxito conter o Boko Haram de continuar seguindo em frente e tomando território.
"South African soldiers have extensive experience conducting mobile operations in hostile environments and can provide immediate access to airpower. This is particularly useful in fighting Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest, a dense area approximating 60,000 square kilometers in the northeast of the country which has become the insurgents’ stronghold."
"According to the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, former members of the South African Air Force have been operating gunships mostly based out of Maiduguri, and have flown “a huge number of sorties, including nocturnal operations, with great success”. The mercenaries appear to have adopted a rather low profile, attacking usually at night and pulling out in the morning for the Nigerian government to claim credit. This suggests a deliberate desire to maintain a low profile and shows that the contractors are working closely with the Nigerian armed forces throughout this process." (Why Nigeria is turning to South African mercenaries to help fight Boko Haram)  
Para consertar um trecho, a STTEP não é uma empresa Sul Africana e nem tão pouco são mercenários Sul Africanos. É uma empresa de Segurança que presta serviços a países Africanos por cidadãos Africanos.
Problem in point: STTEP is not a South African company... (BARLOW, E.)
Vamos ver a cara da ONU quando começar a reclamar do contrato de mercenários, já que eles repudiam o terrorismo mas não se pronunciam em como conter, assim como forças ocidentais que repudiam o terrorismo, mas se metem apenas quando não são requisitados. No caso da Nigéria, ou o país não tem algo a oferecer ou o Boko Haram é estratégico para algumas nações, inclusive às 'unidas'. Assim como o Estado Islâmico.
O problema é que o repúdio ao terrorismo vem junto com o repúdio ao contrato de mercenários, que antes era apoiado pelos mesmos que repudiam! Acabou o neocolonialismo e agora todos desejam ser politicamente corretos...



Qual a questão?
Matérias como está são comuns, sempre tentando denegrir a imagem: Apartheid-era forces hired by desperate Nigeria e logo volta a resposta do Barlow: Quando um país ocidental contrata é uma PMC para proteção VIP, quando um país africano contrata é pro-apartheid, é racismo, é mercenarismo.

Decerto  que ética e moral não são bem vindas na política internacional, a hipocrisia ainda é a grande questão para opinar quanto às questões de guerra, a terceirização da culpa ainda é maior do que a terceirização da guerra. Ninguém se propôs a resolver o problema, apenas em expor, mas quando alguém toma atitude, também é exposto como errado.

Regras não foram seguidas no Iraque, nem no Afeganistão. Nunca foram seguidas no Brasil. Tampouco foram seguidas na Colômbia. Nem no Vietnã, Congo, etc. Porque na Nigéria deve ser seguido é uma questão interessante. Pacifistas, comunistas, esquerdistas, etc. sei lá qual o tesão que têm no terrorismo, até porque toda a base dos grupos é ultra conservadora.

Segue aqui um trecho escrito por Barlow, explicando onde a mídia (negativa) entra:

"Of course, the media's version of the history of Executive Outcomes (EO) was also dug up and rehashed and likewise became a focus of their attention. (I was—and still am—amazed that some journalists still believe they know more about EO than I do and now it appears they know more about STTEP than I do)."
...
"Some journalists have written offering to assist me in reducing the "criminality of our actions". It appears that if South Africans are called on to assist an African government fight terrorism it is considered to be "criminal". When South Africans are contracted by a foreign PMC, then it is no longer criminal!" (Feeding Narrative - Barlow, E.) 

E quem é o filho da puta?

A lógica é a lógica de mercado mesmo, a economia e a política decidindo juntas, e quem tem mais economia é quem decide! Outro ponto é a economia de fato e é o ponto que mais se destaca.
McFate defende a prática das PMC, deixando claro que há livre concorrência. Mesmo ditadores como Gaddafi utilizaram mercenários, que lutaram contra algumas PMC. Não haviam lados certos sendo que a prática é proibida por convenção. Então não tem que se julgar ilegítimo se é para determinado fim.
Futuramente trabalharei apenas esta questão e a questão da legitimidade e legalidade das PMC, mas nas palavras de McFate:


"In addition, private armies live by no rules of war or international conventions; here, Erik Prince is the best example. PMCs can hide in countries with the lowest standards and norms. They have access to a global arms trade and the latest military technology, including drones. They are a risk to civilian populations, and their operations are never transparent. “You can FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) the CIA, you can’t FOIA this industry,” said McFate. "
"So what to do? McFate suggests that banning PMCs or trying to regulate them into submission won’t work because it would only drive them underground and into the realm of rogues. He suggests letting the market work to “incentivize desirable practices by making them profitable” might be the best course. He notes, however, that when the U.S. military had “market power” and was in the best position to set price and practices at the beginning of its wars, it “failed to do so.” "
(The privatization of America’s wars swells the ranks of armies for hire across the globe)

Mercenários na África sempre tiveram como denominação "Cães de Guerra", mas quem são os cães da guerra afinal?
"Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist organization in Nigeria responsible for somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 civilian deaths over the last five years. They have kidnapped and kept hundreds of schoolgirls in sexual slavery. They have tortured and mutilated thousands of black people and whilst the UN and the rest of the world sit and do nothing (apart from Michelle Obama with her useless “Bring back our children” campaign), STTEP is hunting the bastards down and killing them."
"These tactics and techniques are not new. I mentioned them all in my four part series and anybody with elementary knowledge of COIN will recognize them. It is exactly what we used on the Angolan border. Sure times have changed and equipment became more modern, but the principles are the same. For instance Von Trotha “leap-frogged” with horses. STTEP uses helicopters and vehicles, but the principles are still the same." (SMITH, M. STTEP - Former SADF soldiers defeating Boko Haram in Nigeria)
Dentre estratégias e táticas que revolucionaram os conflitos, cenários operacionais completamente não convencionais e uma puta vitória - o primeiro passo -  de força e inteligência superior. Segue o vídeo da Al Jazeera em que mostra o Boko Haram tomando de quatro para as forças armadas nigerianas, treinadas pela STTEP International, a força de retaliação retomando território e tendo o apoio da população.

Além disso, Barlow recentemente postou em seu blog um texto comentando sobre a última entrevista, da SOFREPSegue o link!







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