Army âStrategic Shockâ Report Says Troops May Be Needed To Quell U.S. Civil Unrest
Steve Watson & Paul Watson
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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008
A recent report produced by the U.S. Army War Collegeâs Strategic Institute warns that the United States may experience massive civil unrest in the wake of a series of crises which it has termed âstrategic shock.â
The report, titled Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development, also suggests that the military may have to be used to quell domestic disorder.
âWidespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security,â the report, authored by [Ret.] Lt. Col. Nathan Freir, reads.
âDeliberate employment of weapons of mass destruction or other catastrophic capabilities, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters are all paths to disruptive domestic shock.â it continues.
âAn American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at homeâ¦â
âAlready predisposed to defer to the primacy of civilian authorities in instances of domestic security and divest all but the most extreme demands in areas like civil support and consequence management, DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States.â Lt. Col. Freir concludes.
See Pages 31-32 (PDF) for quoted sections.
Freir is a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He joined the think tank in April 2008 after retiring from the U.S. Army after 20 years as a lieutenant colonel. In his role at CSIS he rubs shoulders with a whole host of globalist luminaries including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Richard Armitage.
Echoing recent comments made by Pentagon advisors, along with other notable figures such as Colin Powell and Joe Biden, Freir also warns that the incoming Obama administration should prepare for a âfirst term crisisâ that could act as a catalyst for such unrest.
âThe current administration confronted a game-changing âstrategic shockâ inside its first eight months in office,â the report reads. âThe next administration would be well-advised to expect the same during the course of its first term. Indeed, the odds are very high against any of the challenges routinely at the top of the traditional defense agenda triggering the next watershed inside DoD [Department of Defense].â
We have recently highlighted plans to station thousands more U.S. troops inside America for purposes of âdomestic securityâ from September 2011, an expansion of Northcomâs militarization of the country in preparation for potential civil unrest following a total economic collapse or a mass terror attack.
âThe U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials,â reported the Washington Post last month.
In a September 8 Army Times article, Northcom announced that the first wave of the troop deployment, which was put in place on October 1st at Fort Stewart and at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, would be aimed at tackling âcivil unrest and crowd controlâ.
After a controversy arose surrounding the admissions made in the Army Times article, Northcom retracted the claim but conceded that both lethal and non-lethal weaponry traditionally used in crowd control and riot situations would still be used in the field.
The increasing militarization of America is part of a long term agenda to abolish Constitutional rule and establish a âmilitary form of government,â following a large scale terror attack or similar disaster, as Tommy Franks, the former commander of the militaryâs Central Command, alluded to in a November 2003 Cigar Aficionado piece.
Franks outlined the scenario by which martial law would be put in place, saying, âIt means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world â it may be in the United States of America â that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.â
In the short term, the domestic deployment of troops is likely aimed at combating likely civil unrest that will ensue after a complete economic collapse followed by a devastating period of hyperinflation.
This warning was again echoed a few days ago in a leaked internal memo from Citibank.
âThe world is not going back to normal after the magnitude of what they have done. When the dust settles this will either work, and the money they have pushed into the system will feed through into an inflation shock,â wrote Tom Fitzpatrick, Citibankâs chief technical strategist.
The memo predicts âdepression, civil disorder and possibly warsâ as a fallout from an economic collapse that many say is on the horizon.