Monthly Archives: February 2009
Still Waiting to be Harnessed by That Tax Payer Funded PSYOP Program
My sources at NPS have been holding out on me. I didn’t even know there was such a program. Thank God for RYP, eh? I’m an official RYP milblogger: The Identifiers: 1) Flags, militaria, patriotic statements, military charities, links to … Continue reading
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Afghan Security Guard
Veterans of the old ASF are doing good things as ASG. From Special Warfare via Afghanistan Conflict Monitor, an excerpt of Tribal Engagement in Afghanistan: The ODA in Shkin is located at Firebase Lilley. The ODA employs several hundred Afghan security … Continue reading
Filed under IW, The Forgotten War
Who Is 636th MI Battalion Trying to PSYOP?
I caught a few moments of The Alamo today, watched Billy Bob shoot the epaulette off Santa Ana’s shoulder, missed his fiddle response to Degüello. El Degüello, as all Texans and everybody else with an appreciation of the military heritage … Continue reading
Filed under PSYOP, The Forgotten War
Civil Defense Forces
NOT tribal militias. NOT warlord armies. NOT shady indig PMC’s. Mobilizing Afghan Militias: Civil Defense Forces Vs. ‘Tribal Militias’ The disintegration of security at the district and village level has eroded public support for the central government and has left … Continue reading
Filed under IW, The Forgotten War
greg54444 — Civilian Irregular Information Operator Extraordinaire
Tracing this outstanding example of 21st Century pamphleteering from Chief Reynolds to Roger Kimball to Texas Rainmaker brings us to greg54444, a Great American who produced this: Find a spare 8 minutes and 17 seconds in your life and listen … Continue reading
Filed under Idea War, Pamphleteers, Resisters
Did ANSO Strategically Leak a Classified Email to HuffPo?
ANSO is the Aghanistan NGO Security Office. Touchy feely Euroweenie dogooder types aghast at the very idea of armed citizens playing any role in protecting the places they live. Not entirely useless. I’ve seen some of their products back when … Continue reading
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We Need A Politically Incorrect Political Party
We being the Resistance. The Republican Party deserves to go the way of the Whigs. “Conservativism” as a political philosophy has been rejected. What now? Meme Warfare, ideological warfare, irregular information operations, pamphleteering, samizdat, hactivism, civil disobedience, distributed resistance, rejection, … Continue reading
Radio In A Box
U.S. troops in Afghanistan use radio to help tune out Taliban Radio Zormat . . . . . . 250-watt transmitter . . . In these 750 square miles, Radio Zormat’s three DJs broadcast in Pashtu to a growing audience … Continue reading
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OEF Logistics — The Hits Just Keep On Coming
Mordida, amigo. Manas Air Base? Kyrgyzstan? Obscure but more important than most Americans realize. Afghanistan doesn’t have much aviation infrastructure. Stuff like long, concrete runways thick enough to withstand heavies hitting them at 162 knots, ramp space, hangars, fuel. We … Continue reading
Filed under Logistics, The Forgotten War
Militia troops understand that, while our actions cannot stop illegal activities along the border, we can change world perception and national thought concerning homeland and border security.
Roger’s Rangers had rules, and so does the Cochise County Militia. Their efforts to change world perception and national thought make them Civilian Irregular Information Operators.
Filed under IW, PSYOP Auxiliaries, Scouts
Fobbits Feeling the Pinch
I was a Fobbit for 28 months. Most of the head count for both OEF and OIF are Fobbits. FOB’s are much nicer places to live and work than Combat Out Posts, Joint Security Stations, and Vehicle Patrol Bases. Lots … Continue reading
Filed under Logistics, Morale Operations, The Forgotten War
Afghan Public Protection Force
The ANAP under a different name . US-funded program to arm Afghan groups begins Afghanistan creates anti-insurgency force New Afghan Unit To Police ‘Insecure’ Areas From BBC: Labelled the “public Protection force” it is modelled on a traditional tribal group … Continue reading
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