tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27602495503180210702024-03-13T17:31:39.965-04:00IINSTPInformal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.comBlogger1381125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-90743550380440274772020-11-29T09:48:00.000-05:002020-11-29T09:48:03.084-05:00Giving Tuesday Recommendations<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></p><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><br clear="all" /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Dear Friends, </span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b>I do not normally do this (except I did this last year and for the last few years now, too) and I certainly do not mean to use my email distribution and news service for solicitation so please forgive me. I was asked for recommendations of organizations to support so I thought I would share with you the organizations to whom I give. I support six main causes: The Green Beret Foundation, The Small Wars Journal, The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Spirit of America, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, and the OSS Society (and I do also contribute to WAMU so I can get my daily dose of NPR as well as well as scholarship funds of various organisations of which I am an alum). As we near the end of the year and since it is "Giving </b><b>Tuesday</b><b>" (on December 1st) and people are making decisions to give to worthy causes I thought I would share this with you. Please give to your favorite organizations this year (despite the changes in the tax laws which may reduce the incentive for some to give). If you need a suggestion for giving please consider Spirit of America, The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, The Green Beret Foundation,the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, the OSS Society, and Small Wars Journal.</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b>I would be remiss if I did not add the great organization to which I now belong, The Foundation for Defense of Democracy (a Washington-based nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy) which is a 501(c) research institute. It has the best mission for a retired Special Forces soldier (and anyone interested in national security and foreign policy): "FDD conducts in-depth research, produces accurate and timely analyses, identifies illicit activities, and provides policy options – <i><u>all with the aim of strengthening U.S. national security and reducing or eliminating threats posed by adversaries and enemies of the United States and other free nations</u></i>." </b></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div><div class="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">The Committee For Human Rights in North Korea:<br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><a href="https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/HRNK"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">https://donatenow.<wbr></wbr>networkforgood.org/HRNK</span></a></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-post-body gmail-m_-3689184985771530937entry-content" id="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-post-body-2056492059688634420" style="line-height: 1.4; width: 490px;"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-m_-5354932744539064748gmail-post-body gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-m_-5354932744539064748entry-content" id="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-m_-5354932744539064748gmail-post-body-1505994897444559304" style="line-height: 1.4; width: 490px;"><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Spirit of America:</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><a href="https://spiritofamerica.org/donate"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">https://spiritofamerica.org/<wbr></wbr>donate</span></a></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Green Beret Foundation:</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><a href="http://www.greenberetfoundation.org/donate/"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>greenberetfoundation.org/<wbr></wbr>donate/</span></a></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Special Operations Warrior Foundation</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://specialops.org/ways-to-give/">https://specialops.org/ways-to-give/</a><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">OSS Society</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.osssociety.org/donate.html">https://www.osssociety.org/donate.html</a><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Small Wars Journal:</span></b></div><b><a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/content/support"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">http://smallwarsjournal.com/<wbr></wbr>content/support</span></a></b></div><div class="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-m_-5354932744539064748gmail-post-body gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-m_-5354932744539064748entry-content" id="gmail-m_-3689184985771530937gmail-m_-5354932744539064748gmail-post-body-1505994897444559304" style="line-height: 1.4; 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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>I think this is an excellent reference. It synthesizes everything I learned at the National War College both as a student and a faculty member. It is only 84 pages but it really captures the essence of everything you need for a foundation to "do strategy." This is a very important reference. I did not know Steven Heffington (though he has a great reputation with tremendous experience) but David Tretler was a fantastic professor and I knew Adam Oler as a student and I am pleased that he has returned to teach at NWC and help produce this excellent reference.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Note also the contributions of the late Colonel John Collins, AKA The Warlord, one of our foremost strategic thinkers over the years, are acknowledged.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>It can be downloaded here. </b></span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nwc.ndu.edu/Portals/71/Documents/Publications/NWC-NDU-Primer.pdf?ver%3D2019-07-30-105821-630&source=gmail&ust=1566158182482000&usg=AFQjCNFVfHpXiXIsxCOykBnYCwS7Oxfk2A" href="https://nwc.ndu.edu/Portals/71/Documents/Publications/NWC-NDU-Primer.pdf?ver=2019-07-30-105821-630" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://nwc.ndu.edu/<wbr></wbr>Portals/71/Documents/<wbr></wbr>Publications/NWC-NDU-Primer.<wbr></wbr>pdf?ver=2019-07-30-105821-630</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A National Security Strategy Primer provides National War College</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">(NWC) students with a common point of departure for consideration of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">national security strategy and is designed as a principal tool for understanding</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">and achieving core course learning objectives. The primer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">specifically addresses key concepts of national security strategy and outlines</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">a broad approach for strategy development. Additionally, the primer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">serves to set a common national strategy language for use within the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">college. To accomplish this task, the primer draws substantially from current</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">joint and Service-specific doctrine as well as extant Department of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Defense procedures and policy guidance. However, as national strategy is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">an inherently multi-instrument, multi-institution endeavor, the primer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">draws from interagency language and policy as well as significant literature</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">on national security strategy found in the doctrine of partner/allied</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">states, academia, the business sector, and elsewhere. While the primer is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">geared toward the NWC core curriculum, it may also serve as a useful</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">tool for interagency practitioners charged with discussing, designing, or</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">assessing national security strategies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This primer details the elements of strategic logic taught at NWC and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">focuses on national security strategy development. For the purposes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">of this document, national security strategy is generally considered to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">encompass any strategic issue that would fall within the scope of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">National Security Council. While strategic logic is relevant and applicable</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">to strategy-making in general, the focus herein is not specifically</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">single-instrument or single-agency strategies but the broader concept of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">multi-instrument national security strategy.</span></div>
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Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-14472038598403165832019-06-30T10:35:00.000-04:002019-07-03T18:58:41.696-04:00Assessment of POTUS-Kim Jong-un meeting at the DMZ/Panmunjom June 30, 2019<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My thoughts on the meeting:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unconventional, experimental, top down diplomacy. Diplomacy and foreign relations via twitter and social media. Will it pay off? I hope so but I think it will only work if we understand the true nature of the Kim family regime and we do not take our eye off the ball - north Korea's political warfare strategy and long con.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do not mean this to be disrespectful but I do think it is accurate to describe the "political philosophy" of this administration as one of "reality TV." I think it is simply a fact that the President's information and influence activities strategy is based on the principles of success for reality TV.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do hope the President will take seriously the name "Freedom's Frontier" and will work to protect freedom and liberty everywhere throughout the world against our enemies who seek authoritarian government expansion and domination, to include China, Russia, Iran, and north Korea as well as the non-state violent extremist actors.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course the visit to JSA/Panmunjom was long planned. I am sure it was in the works from the time it was agreed that he would travel to South Korea after the G20. But it will be interesting to some day learn the history - was this meeting really based on a tweet and the President's last minute idea to tweet and invite Kim and did Kim accept it on almost the spur of the moment? If so it is also historic from the point of view that the north Korean bureaucracy/party apparatus worked as fast as it did.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a pretty amazing event. But we should remember that we conferred a high degree of legitimacy on Kim and this will be exploited by Kim's Propaganda and Agitation Department. Some commentators have also mentioned that by this action we just accepted north Korea as a nuclear state (I hope we are not doing that but that is the view of some pundits) I have to say that Kim looked the most at ease and relaxed both outside at the MDL and along conference row when they were talking to the press as well as at the sit down in the Peace House. He appeared to be in his element and seemed to be relishing the exposure of the press conference even more than POTUS. I wonder what was agreed to at the private session. Hopefully real working level negotiations will take place. It will be interesting to parse the statements from KCNA over the next few days to determine how Kim views this. I am sure it will be interpreted as a huge win and that Kim is in full control of the nuclear negotiations and is in full control of his political warfare strategy and long con that he is executing agains the ROK and the U.S.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We need to think about these five questions:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. What do we want to achieve in Korea?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. What is the acceptable durable political arrangement that will protect, serve, and advance US and ROK/US Alliance interests on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Who does Kim fear more: The US or the Korean people in the north? (Note it is the Korean people armed with information knowledge of life in South Korea)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Do we believe that Kim Jong-un has abandoned the seven decades old strategy of subversion, coercion-extortion (blackmail diplomacy), and use of force to achieve unification dominated by the Guerrilla Dynasty and Gulag State in order to ensure the survival of the mafia like crime family cult known as Kim family regime?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. In support of that strategy do we believe that Kim Jong-un has abandoned the objective to split the ROK/US Alliance and get US forces off the peninsula? Has KJU given up its divide and conquer strategy - divide the alliance and conquer the ROK?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answers to these questions should guide us to the strategy to solve the "Korea question" (para 60 of the Armistice) and lead to the only acceptable durable political arrangement: A secure, stable, economically vibrant, non-nuclear Korean peninsula unified under a liberal constitutional form of government determined by the Korean people. In short, a United Republic of Korea (UROK)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A tough and comprehensive strategic approach, or “Plan B,” is required while the U.S. still pursues working level negotiations to give Kim the opportunity to make the right strategic decision to denuclearize. It must rest on a foundation of sustained pressure and military strength. Should Kim not make the right strategic decision the U.S. and ROK/U.S. Alliance will have the strategy and forces in place to dissuade the regime from continued development of its capabilities and sustain the deterrent posture to prevent war. Finally, this “Plan B” provides a long-term approach to support reaching what may be the only solution to the Korean security problem: a unified peninsula or a United Republic of Korea.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In short my assumptions are these: </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kim will not give up nuclear weapons unless he perceives the greater threat is from maintaining them – a threat that must come from within the regime.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only way we are going to see an end to the nuclear program and threats, as well as the crimes against humanity being committed against the Korean people living in the north by the mafia-like crime family cult known as the Kim family regime that rules the Guerrilla Dynasty and Gulag State, is through achievement of unification and the establishment of a United Republic of Korea (UROK) that is secure and stable, non-nuclear, economically vibrant, and unified under a liberal constitutional form of government determined by the Korean people.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To that end we need a concept that is based on "Deter, Contain, Manage, and Press: " deter north Korean aggression and attack on the South, contain the north's illicit activities around the world to include cyber and proliferation activities, manage the conditions and sustain alliances in the region, and continue maximum pressure 2.0 to influence internal regime dynamics that result in the internal threats that will cause Kim Jong-un to make the right strategic choices.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This concept should employ five major lines of effort: Diplomatic Engagement, Military Strength to deter an attack and support strategic reassurance and strategic resolve, Sanctions Enforcement, Cyber Defense and Offense, and Information and Influence activities to influence the regime elite, 2d tier leadership, and general population.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the end to counter Kim's political warfare strategy and long con we have to outplay him with our long game.</span></b>Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-33297722615050837392019-05-09T09:40:00.006-04:002019-05-09T09:40:55.419-04:00The 70 Year Consensus<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cqk1b" data-offset-key="3v7fg-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">WHEN: <strong>Friday, May 3, 2019, 12:00 noon - 2 pm</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">WHERE: <strong>2168 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Is there any hope that the Kim family’s 70 year plus reign of terror can be peacefully brought to an end by the very people who have escaped? </em>North Korean defectors visiting Washington, D.C. for the 16<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> annual North Korea Freedom Week will answer that question and discuss their work aimed at bringing peaceful unification to Korea and the end of the Kim Jong Un regime. The presenters are all targeted by Kim Jong un for assassination: <strong>Kim Seong Min</strong> of Free North Korea Radio, <strong>Park Sang Hak </strong>of Fighters for Free North Korea,<strong> Kim Heung-Kwang</strong> of North Korean Intellectuals Solidarity,<strong> Hu Kwang il</strong> of the Committee for the Democratization of North Korea and<strong> Choi Jeung Hun</strong> of the North Korea People’s Liberation Front.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Political Defiance is Necessary in North
Korea<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><i>by
David Maxwell</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><i>Senior
Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thank you Suzanne for the kind introduction. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It is truly an honor to be here with these brave Koreans from the north
who have escaped from the Guerrilla Dynasty and Gulag State we know as north
Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who has survived the north
and escaped has my deepest respect and admiration.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As a retired Special Forces soldier, I still believe in our motto – “de
oppresso liber” – to free the oppressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And more accurately what Green Berets try to do is to help the oppressed
free themselves. I hope the day will soon come when 25 million Koreans in the
north can throw off the yoke of oppression that is around their necks as a
result of the actions of the mafia-like crime family cult we know as the Kim
family regime.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It is my belief that the only way we will see an end to the nuclear and
missile programs and the crimes against humanity being committed in the north
is through the solution of the “Korea question” which was outlined in paragraph
60 of the 1953 Armistice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The military
commanders called on the political leaders of all concerned parties to come
together within 90 days of the signing to solve the Korea question which is the
unnatural division of the peninsula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have been waiting for nearly 66 years for this to happen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As I study the security situation in Korea there are five fundamental
questions that are on the forefront of my mind and should be considered as we
try to understand the situation and chart a way ahead that will serve, protect,
and advance US and ROK/US alliance interests and the interests of the 25
million Koreans suffering in the north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first two are policy questions and the next three are intelligence
questions that we must seek to understand and answer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What do we want to achieve in Korea?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What is the acceptable durable political arrangement that will protect,
serve, and advance US and ROK/US Alliance interests on the Korean Peninsula and
in Northeast Asia?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do we believe that Kim Jong-un will ever abandon the seven decades old
strategy of subversion, coercion-extortion (blackmail diplomacy), and use of
force to achieve unification dominated by the Guerrilla Dynasty and Gulag State
in order to ensure the survival of the mafia like crime family cult known as
the Kim family regime?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In support of that strategy do we believe that Kim Jong-un will abandon
the objective to split the ROK/US Alliance and get US forces off the peninsula?
Will KJU give up his divide and conquer strategy - divide the alliance
and conquer the ROK?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I think the answer to both questions 3 and 4 is no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will never give up his political warfare
strategy that he is executing every day against the ROK, the US, and the
international community.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The most important fifth and final question is: Who does Kim fear more:
The US or the Korean people in the north? I think we all know the answer to
this question due to the very nature of regime and its institutionalized system
of oppression and tyrannical dictatorial rule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it is the answer to this question that provides the way forward to
solve the Korea question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the
solution may come as a result of war or regime collapse the best way is for it
to come from within – from within the 25 million Koreans living in the north.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The answers to these questions should guide us to the strategy to solve
the "Korea question" and lead to the only acceptable durable
political arrangement: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>A secure,
stable, economically vibrant, non-nuclear Korean peninsula unified under a
liberal constitutional form of government determined by the Korean people.</u></i> In
short, a United Republic of Korea (UROK).<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As we consider the threats from the north, to include its nuclear and
conventional forces and its global illicit activities from counterfeiting, drug
trafficking, and slave labor to cyber attacks, the most important and
overlooked one is the north’s use of subversion to undermine the legitimacy of
the ROK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The regime has committed
tremendous effort to trying to subvert the South and at the same time has
developed the most sophisticated system to prevent internal subversion in the
north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It fears subversive activities
against the regime most of all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
most subversive activity comes in the form of information and influence
activities.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is subversion?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>The undermining of the power and authority of an
established system or institution.</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><b>As in:</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"the ruthless subversion
of democracy" versus “the effective subversion of a dictatorship.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></b></li>
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</ul>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b>At the very root of the problem
Koreans are in an Ideological War – which really is about the choice of values
the Korean people in the north and South want to live by:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Shared ROK/US Values:</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Freedom and individual liberty, liberal democracy,
free market economy, and human rights</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Paradise, Songun, Songbun, Byungjin, and denial of human rights to sustain the
KFR in power</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The choice between these values
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am a great fan of Gene Sharp and Robert Helvey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gene Sharp wrote the seminal work “From
Dictatorship to Democracy.” One of the most important concepts is Political
Defiance which was coined by Robert Helvey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Political defiance” is used principally to describe action by
populations to regain from dictatorships control over governmental institutions
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>by relentlessly attacking their
sources of power and deliberately using strategic planning and operations to do
so.</u></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of the most important
lines of effort to solving the Korea question.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There are four paths to a United Republic of Korea. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1. The first path is Peaceful – this is
most unlikely but counterintuitively the one the ROK can and must prepare for
with the help of the US and international community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the morally right focus and should be
the foundation for all overt policy development and planning and in fact has
been the alliance vision for the past three ROK and two US Presidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would argue that everything planned for
peaceful unification – economic integration, political integration, cultural
integration, and even military integration will be necessary in any of the
other three paths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unification, whether
peaceful or otherwise, must result in a United Republic of Korea with no traces
left of the Kim family regime.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2. The second path is War – It is the
fastest way to unification as it will result in the defeat of the nKPA and
destruction of the Kim family regime infrastructure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is too costly in blood and treasure;
therefore, we must work to deter war.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span>The third path is regime collapse – while this might seem like a good
path it is also fraught with danger, complexity, uncertainty, and most likely
some level of conflict up to and including war.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4. The fourth path is the outlier but may
be the best answer and that is regime removal and replacement with a political
power who will seek peaceful unification to create a United Republic of
Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most important tool in
developing the political defiance that can lead to this outcome is information
and influence activities.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An aggressive information and influence activities campaign must be
sustained over time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the US we
describe it this way:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Information and
Influence Activities comprise “the integration of designated information
related capabilities in order to synchronize themes, messages, and actions with
operations to inform United States and global audiences, influence foreign
audiences, and affect adversary and enemy decision making.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the context of north Korea we need to influence three broad target
audiences:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the regime elite and its
decision making but also more critically to undermine regime legitimacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next is the second tier leadership – those
leaders outside the regime who possess power – namely military power such as
the division, corps, and army commanders. We must remove their will to both
attack the South and suppress the Korean people in the north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third are the Korean people themselves who
must be supported as they develop and execute political defiance against the
regime and who must be prepared for the establishment of a United Republic of
Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, we must attack the
legitimacy of the regime, remove the will to oppress the Korean people by the
second tier leadership, and prepare the Korean people for political defiance
and unification.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Of course, Clausewitz said “in war everything is simple but even the
simplest thing is hard.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should keep
in mind this is an ideological war that is fought with information and influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is easy for me to say and describe this,
but it is complex, uncertain, and hard in execution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, we have experts in this process
who can lead us in the hard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
heroes, who have escaped from the oppression in the north, know what it takes
to influence their fellow Koreans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
should listen to their wisdom but more importantly we must support their
efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pledge to do so and I urge
all of you to do the same.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>David Maxwell is a retired U.S, Army Special Forces Colonel and
a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He also
contributes to FDD’s Center for Military and Political Power. Follow him on
Twitter at @davidmaxwell161. Follow FDD on Twitter @FDD and @FDD_CMPP. FDD
is a Washington-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national
security and foreign policy.</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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American combat experiences since 2001 have revealed stunning military capabilities and repeated tactical successes. Yet the United States has failed to achieve acceptable and durable political arrangements that serve and protect its interests, suggesting that there are fundamental flaws in its approach to modern warfare. This approach has emphasized conventional models and tools, making little accommodation for a changing adversary and its evolution toward nonconventional means, and the United States has proven unprepared for what the National Security Strategy has recognized as "fundamentally political contests" combining political, economic, cyber, and military means.</div>
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The authors propose the establishment of an American political warfare capability to orchestrate all relevant elements of U.S. national power in response to these nonconventional threats, both in war and in peace. This capability must be jointly funded and supported by both the Department of Defense and the Department of State, because of the requirement to operate in contests with and without armed conflict, with vital roles for the Intelligence Community and the United States Agency for International Development. Given political warfare's deliberate whole-of-government nature, the establishment of this capability would require support from both the President and Congress.</div>
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Critical to the success of this capability is the establishment, alongside the requirement for the capability itself, of a national political warfare center for studying, understanding, and developing whole-of-government concepts of action (policy, strategy, and campaigns) for responding to nonconventional threats. This center would provide the United States a needed venue to study and prepare for warfare in this space between peace and war.</div>
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Embracing the whole-of-government framework with significant targeted military contributions,</div>
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Political Warfare enables America’s leaders to undertake proactive strategic initiatives to shape</div>
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Applied at the regional or global level, Political Warfare emerges from a persistent and</div>
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campaigns where military contributions support the attainment of broader strategic end states.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A 42 minute video well worth watching on north Korea. It covers a number of important issues. From Department 39 and its support to the Royal Court </b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>economy</b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the nuclear and missile programs to life in Pyongyang among the elite (and the scientists). It covers cyber, overseas labor (example of Mongolia but also mentioned Kuwait and Poland), chemical weapons, the nuclear facility in Syria built with north Korean assistance, interview with Hugh Griffiths of the UN Panel of Experts. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">When discussing the regime's global illicit activities the question was asked if they are conducted in the US. The respondent said not really except for cyber. The quote of the day is "We do everything we can to relieve the US of its money."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Korea watchers will recognize our good friend who used to work at Department 39 taking care of Kim Jong-il's money. Since he was not named in the film I will not name jim but all Korea watchers will recognize him and he provides excellent insights (in English) on Department 39 and the Royal Court economy.</span></b></div>
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North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un has not reined in its nuclear program, despite a number of UN resolutions. How did he manage that and who are the men who have helped Kim Jong Un keep his dreams of reaching nuclear power status alive?</div>
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px;">North Korea has not reined in its nuclear program, despite a number of UN resolutions that have tried to force it to do so. So how has the isolated country kept the program going despite sanctions? Every year Pyongyang sends millions of North Korean workers abroad, selling their services to over 40 countries around the world. And their salaries flow directly into Kim’s treasury. The only ones who know exactly how the system works are the men who have helped the North Korean government carry through the program for years. A film team spent years researching these men and their secrets - from bankers and diplomats to the laborers and specialists who worked abroad and whose wages flowed into the regime's coffers. Come and meet all the dictator’s men.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 130 page report can be downloaded here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/Collins_Denied_FINALFINALFINAL_WEB.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1545493005561000&usg=AFQjCNEOKrPLeCZvQt2BBTsLsqR2SIOsgA" href="https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/Collins_Denied_FINALFINALFINAL_WEB.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> https://www.hrnk.org/<wbr></wbr>uploads/pdfs/Collins_Denied_<wbr></wbr>FINALFINALFINAL_WEB.pdf</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Let me say that anyone who will work in north Korea with the Korean people outside of Pyongyang must read this report. If you are going to be inspecting nuclear sites or conducting remains recovery operations or conducting operations after </b><b>conflict</b><b> or after regime collapse you should read this report and take it with you when you deploy (but only if the Kim family regime is no longer in </b><b>power</b><b> - do not take it to north Korea under any </b><b>circumstances while Kim Jong-un and the regime remain in power). Every Special Operations soldier - SF, Civil Affairs, and Psychological Operations - should commit this to memory.</b><b> Every NGO and aid worker should commit this memory. Anyone planning operations in the human domain in north Korea should commit this to memory. And anyone who wishes to help the Republic of Korea </b><b>achieve</b><b> unification ( A United Republic of Korea (UROK)) should read this report as it will provide insight and assistance on how to overcome the indoctrination and reintegrate the Korean people living in the north back into the real world. I hope that the ROK Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Unification and the Korean </b><b>Institute</b><b> of National Unification will translate this into Korea so Korean soldiers and Korean NGOs can benefit from the </b><b>tremendous research that went into writing this report.</b><b> </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below the summary are some excerpts of my remarks I provided at the National Press Club when Robert Collins' report was presented by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. I will try to revise my remarks and write a review of the report. But until then please know that I strongly recommend this report.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Denied from the Start: Human Rights at the Local Level in North Korea</em> is a comprehensive study of how North Korea’s Kim regime denies human rights for each and every citizen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). In doing so, this report examines human rights denial policies and practices. Local institutions are responsible for this denial at the schools, housing units, workplaces, and beyond. To justify this political approach towards shaping North Korean society, the North’s Party-state specifically focuses on loyalty to North Korea’s Supreme Leader and the KWP by incorporating regime-centered ideology into every fabric of socio-political life through these local institutions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Along with his previous seminal works Marked for Life (Songbun) and Pyongyang Republic, this <i><u>trilogy</u></i> forms the basis for understanding the human domain in the north and for the necessary area studies that must be conducted by everyone engaged in NGO work in the north, those who might have to conduct military operations, the intelligence community that is charged with making sense of what is happening inside the north and negotiators who not only must consider the nuclear threats but also the human rights abuses as part of a holistic negotiations strategy. I especially recommend this to journalists who need to understand what life is like and how human rights are denied in north Korea so that they can accurately write about the conditions and horrors that are commonly experienced by so many Koreans living in the north every single day of their lives.</b></span></div>
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Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-5366708780079077832018-12-03T10:51:00.004-05:002018-12-03T10:51:53.712-05:00Is the OSS Contribution to Special Forces a Result of Disinformation?<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-27104610563771150712018-11-27T10:57:00.002-05:002018-11-27T10:57:10.583-05:00Giving in 2018 - Recommendations<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I would be remiss if I did not add the great organization to which I now belong, The Foundation for Defense of Democracy, which has the best mission for a retired Special Forces soldier (and anyone interested in national security and foreign policy): "</span></b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">FDD conducts in-depth research, produces accurate and timely analyses, identifies illicit activities, and provides policy options – <i><u>all with the aim of strengthening U.S. national security and reducing or eliminating threats posed by adversaries and enemies of the United States and other free nations</u></i>." </b></span></div>
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Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-21309377093974019982018-11-23T06:46:00.001-05:002018-11-23T06:46:14.209-05:00On the Passing of COL (RET) John Collins, Warlord Emeritus<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<b><span style="color: blue;">Yesterday, on Thanksgiving Day, we lost a true national treasure, Colonel (Retired) John Collins, Warlord Emeritus at age 97. There are very very few who have had such an impact on US national security thought as Colonel Collins. Please read his books on military strategy and military geography, special operations (he is the creator of the Five SOF Truths) and small wars and others. From his service in World War II to being General Westmoreland's planner to teaching at the National War College to his second career at the Congressional Research Service he was a prolific writer and exceptional leader, teacher, thinker, and mentor. His lasting legacy is the creation of the Warlord Loop during which for almost two decades he mentored approximately 500 national security practitioners from the military, foreign service, intelligence community, and other government agencies as well as scholars and journalists.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">For those who have never met him below is a video of his last presentation he made to the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University in 2014. Below the You Tube link is the prepared text on National Security Choices that he used for his presentation. His words are timeless and provide important insights for any aspiring (and current) national security practitioner.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are my qualifications? Yogi Berra famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” I’ve come to countless forks in the road during the last 90-plus years, and have made countless choices, good, bad, and indifferent. Lessons learned came too late to help me, but they aren’t too late too late to help you, so humor me. Pay attention. Take notes. Act like you really believe that what I’m about to say is important. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Alice in Wonderland asked the Cheshire Cat, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” the cat’s response was, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” The first question you should ask yourself consequently is, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” Neither education nor employment options fit </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">any </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">career pattern until you make that elemental decision.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My son Sean’s interests in outer space blossomed at age nine on May 25, 1961 when President Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon and return him safely before that decade ended. U.S. astronauts became Sean’s heroes. He yearned to join that elite band of brothers, but failed because bottom lines on eyesight charts looked blurry. I like to think I helped shape his life-long career by counseling him as follows while he was a high school student: “These are the tough math, physics, and other courses you must take to make your dreams come true.” He complied, culminated his academic career with a PhD in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT, and now is one of this nation’s premier authorities on ballistic missile defense.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I, in comparison, wasted most of my youth, dropped out of high school twice, dropped out of college once, and passed age 30 before I had the foggiest notion who I wanted to be if I ever grew up. Saint Matthew finally showed me the light with words he wrote 2,000 years ago: “Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.” How could anybody even imagine a more stable vocation? I figuratively said “Send me in coach,” light years behind son Sean when he was 30 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Choice 2. Public or Private Service</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Public and private service both</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provide</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a wide range of</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">employment opportunities for national security newcomers, who must decide which venue best satisfies their aspirations and purse strings. I’ll hit a few high spots for consideration. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most public sector employees work for the federal government. Uncle Sam pays all the bills and his representatives determine requirements, whereas individuals who opt for private service depend on nongovernmental organizations for guidance and remuneration. Various surveys claim that the private sector pays best, but generalizations are difficult to defend, unless the duties described are similar. There’s no way, for example, to reasonably compare the responsibilities and pay of managers in Macy’s basement with U.S. political emissaries in Benghazi or military combatants who voluntarily lay their lives on the line whenever required. Governmental employees on the other hand enjoy incomparably greater job security. Probable risks versus potential gains accordingly deserve careful consideration before you opt for private versus public sector employment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Montgomery Flagg’s famous “Uncle Sam Wants You” poster and an overdose of idealism helped tip my scales toward public service before I enlisted as an Army private 71 years ago, a decision I’ve never rued. The back cover of my memoirs, which a “vanity press” recently published, depicts a slight modification of the oath I took as a second lieutenant in December 1942: “I, John M. Collins, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge whatever national security duties I perform. So help me God.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Budgetary problems already prompt Congress to reduce federal expenditures, perhaps across the board. National security nevertheless will remain a compelling U.S. interest in perpetuity, so well qualified applicants like those in this room will continue to find opportunities for employment, of which the following selections are merely representative.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most U.S. citizens are well aware that the Department of Defense and its Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps subsidiaries offer national security aspirants a wide range of command and staff billets in combat, logistical support, and administrative organizations, plus attractive promotion ladders for go-getters. There’s something there for everybody who hankers to strut about in a military uniform. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Few are equally familiar with our Coast Guard, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but may pass to Navy control any time the President decrees or in wartime if Congress so directs. Its responsibilities include search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, aids to navigation, ice breaking, environmental protection, seaport security, and military readiness. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The switch-hitting National Aeronautics and Space Administration, commonly called NASA, performs civil as well as military functions. Armed forces benefit from reconnaissance, surveillance, missile warning and tracking. Meteorological intelligence, navigation, and communications missions benefit both clients, who lean so heavily on NASA’s space satellites and ground installations that employment opportunities won’t dry up during the foreseeable future. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The State Department’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs oversees seven bureaus, plus a zillion embassies and consulates. Entry- and mid-level Foreign Service Officers hop scotch from one assignment to another in assorted cultures that create a smorgasbord of challenges. Results prepare them to work productively with senior U.S. and foreign leaders of all political persuasions. The most valued players sequentially master several languages well enough to conduct business, negotiate agreements, and favorably represent this great nation’s interests every day, often under immense pressure. The Agency for International Development, which technically is part of State but often pursues programs independently, demands similar qualifications.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The U.S. Intelligence Community, a coalition of 17 agencies and other organizations, recently was honored as one of the 10 best places to work in our federal government. Employment opportunities at CIA range from paper pushing to “spook” work, which some veterans applaud for intermittent adrenaline rushes. Competent intelligence analysts put facts and figures together in context, taking cultural peculiarities into account. Estimators postulate short-, mid-, and long-range trends, like whether Arab Spring is likely to spread or collapse. Intelligence personnel deployed overseas, like State’s Foreign Service Officers, benefit immeasurably from “street smarts” and foreign language proficiency, including local dialects that minimize misunderstandings (Arabic, Chinese, Pashto, Farsi, Korean, Russian, and Japanese are most in demand today). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government lists more than 250 “freelance” think tanks at home and abroad. Some, typified by the Brookings Institution, the Center for a New American Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Institute for Defense Analyses, are widely respected and influential, whereas many are so narrowly based and/or biased that applicants should carefully investigate respective pedigrees before they apply for admission. I’m particularly bullish about the Congressional Research Service, which has long been an educational beacon on Capitol Hill because, unlike any other organization in the world to my knowledge, its bylaws forbid analysts to support </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anybody’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">policy or publically occupy </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">any</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> position on the opinion spectrum. Members of the Senate and House of Representatives consequently consider CRS reports as the current equivalent of holy scriptures and seek private advice from CRS contacts in chambers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward Just, while drafting his treatise entitled </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Men</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 1970, asked</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Major General Samuel Koster, who then was Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, why US. armed services had never sired a strategic thinker comparable to Clausewitz. “We’re more interested in the ‘doer’ than the thinker” was that two-star educator’s reply, even though doers seldom do as well as they should unless skilled thinkers assist. Mindsets akin to Koster’s still flourish, which is one reason why the current crop of U.S. military leaders and civilian policy-makers generally become grand tacticians and practitioners of operational art who win battles and campaigns but seldom excel at grand strategy, which wins wars. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That sad situation is by no means new. Strategic pioneers who create theories, concepts, and other intellectual tools for use by doers have been scarcer than hen’s teeth throughout human history. Sun Tzu, Mahan, Liddell Hart, Herman Kahn, and Bernard Brodie, the world’s first nuclear strategist, are prominent exceptions. Lenin, Mao, Giap, Billy Mitchell, and a handful of others who practiced what they preach, remain even rarer. Please note that no woman, not even Joan of Arc, has ever occupied either category. Who knows? The first female to terminate that trend may be in this very room. The lopsided imbalance between doers and thinkers meanwhile will persist until educators unlike General Koster encourage creative thinking, which Henry Ford called the hardest work there is, and potentates atop our national security pyramid reward their products. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your choice between open mind and party line should be easy, because individuals who paste right or left, liberal or conservative, hawk or dove labels in the middle of their forehead abdicate any requirement to think. Reasonably knowledgeable students of national security affairs rarely need to heed anything they say, because most of their opinions are predictable. Professionals as well as neophytes nevertheless should review all sources with open minds, because nobody other than myself is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> right and nobody is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The President of the United States, Secretaries of State and Defense, the JCS Chairman, service chiefs, and combatant commanders lack institutional ways to generate and sustain chain reactions of creative thought that they could use to solve strategic, operational, tactical, logistical, budgetary, and countless other pressing national security problems. Autocratic restrictions, built-in biases, compartmentalization, enforced compromise, and security classifications make routine reliance on nonresident thinkers imperative. Who knows you in that particular context is even more important than who you know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The best way to attract favorable attention is by submitting opinion pieces to national security periodicals. Don’t let rejections and lack of recognition discourage you, because Rome wasn’t built in a day (I just thought that one up). My first four professional articles disappeared into black holes. Others expired in editors’ offices, but anonymity disappeared almost immediately after I expanded my National War College syllabus into a primer entitled </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy for Beginners</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which received nine pink slips before Naval Institute Press published it in 1973 as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Strategy: Principles and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practices. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The August 8, 1975 issue of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Economika, Politika, Ideologiya </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in Moscow praised that book for “fundamental research carried out in this complex, multifaceted and contradictory field.” Other plaudits followed at home and abroad. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish editions appeared, the first two without regard for copyright. A Russian translation of my </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Geography</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> opus later joined that collection. Many of my CRS reports and issue briefs made headlines around the world after I established the equivalent of “I call, you haul” relationships with a slew of journalistic heavy hitters. You surely can do better, armed with one or more diplomas from this highly respected university.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My personal trek from national security specialist to generalist began when I was a captain in 1950 and lasted much longer than Mao’s Long March, which consumed a mere 366 days. A strategic intelligence stint in the Pentagon as the U.S. Army’s Arab-Israeli desk officer came first in 1950; two years later I shifted to the Far East at theater level; Major Collins thereafter sampled operational intelligence with XVIII Airborne Corps, and finally learned a bit about tactical intelligence with the 82d Airborne Division.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lieutenant Colonel Collins unexpectedly became an operational planner at Fort Bragg in 1963 and continued that tack as a colonel in Vietnam. The National War College Commandant finally started me on the generalist track as his Director of Military Strategy Studies in 1969, nearly two decades after the starting date.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did that crazy quilt pattern make me nonmarketable? Not at all. On the contrary, each of those out-of-sequence assignments served as a building block before 51-year-old civilian Collins became Senior Specialist in National Defense at the Congressional Research Service, an assignment that demanded generalist capabilities near the apex of this nation’s national security apparatus. “The Accidental Strategist,” which </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joint Force Quarterly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> published in April 2010, traces my serendipitous trip from top to bottom and back again. </span></div>
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Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitionershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781379315486039302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760249550318021070.post-75322563878730669822018-10-30T12:13:00.004-04:002018-10-30T12:13:42.733-04:00Video: The Tip of the Spear: From Virginia Hall to Gina Haspel<div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">
<span style="color: blue;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This 15 minute video is from the OSS Society Donovan Award Dinner on October 20th. CIA Director Gina Haspel was awarded the Donovan Award. This video is a tribute to her and the women of the OSS and the intelligence community. I do hope the CIA will approve release of her speech as it was excellent and should be read and heard by the public. She and the women of the OSS and intelligence community should be an </b><span style="font-family: arial, " helvetica", " sans-serif";"><b>inspiration</b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> to us all.</b></span></div>
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<b style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For all my SF Brothers: Note the connection of Gina Haspel to 10th SFG. How many MOS </b><span style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>librarians</b></span><b style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> and Language Lab managers did you recruit for the CIA's clandestine service? </b></div>
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