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“The war in Ukraine is driven by the British oligarchy’s and the US and NATO allies’ fear that the world financial system, loaded with derivative debt, speculation, and Schachtian fascist policies is disintegrating.” — EIR’s Richard Freeman https://t.co/mS9pfbsHD0 https://t.co/numbmNrDWz

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CHAOS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT, IT’S THE GOAL The European Union [& United Kingdom] is blind to the military strategy of the United States by Thierry Meyssan "If the military academies of the European Union had done their job, they would have been studying the doctrine of its « big brother », the United States,... See more

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The more that warfare is “formalized” the less damaging it proves. Past efforts in this direction have had more success than is commonly appreciated.

B.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?

The government proved incapable of the clarity needed for a war because it could not simplify. The complexity of the government was translated into a complicated plan for the war, and the complexity trapped the warriors in a confusion that undermined their mission.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

But analysts in the Navy’s official think tank came up with a new strategic idea: finite deterrence . All the U.S. needed, they argued, was enough nuclear weapons to destroy the 100 largest cities in the Soviet Union; this could be done with a mere 640 mis -siles in 40 submarines

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

James D. Kiras, a student of Colin Gray’s, challenged Gray’s generally optimistic treatment of SOF strategic utility using two case studies of raids from World War II in Special Operations and Strategy (Kiras 2006).

David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces

Prime Minister Winston Churchill also recognized the power of using irregular forces to combat the Wehrmacht in conjunction with regular military operations. In July 1940, he charged a new organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), with the mission to “set Europe ablaze.”9 For the next several years, British agents assisted local

Williamson Murray • Hybrid Warfare

For Montgomery, given the horrendous British losses in the trench warfare of World War I, attrition was unthinkable. Instead, he preferred to keep the enemy off balance by maneuvering and then deliver a concentrated blow at a single point. Rather than conduct a broad-front offensive, Monty sought to breach the enemy line and exploit the