Influence Warfare (using ridicule) Example: “How to Make a Butt Bomb: Al Qaeda Training Video”

(from The People’s Cube h/t PoliticalWarfare.org)
I hope there is an version of this being made into Arabic/Farsi/Etc and being plastered to Mideast video sites.

(old found draft post) Ralph Peters: “the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements”

Dec 4, 2008 @ 10:17
I am not sure why I didn’t post it. I guess I didn’t feel like going to how to do a counter-terror/counter-4GW 5GW. I should come back to this idea.
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In the NY Post:
All the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements: Superb intelligence, ruthless determination and tremendous patience.
Intelligence [...]

9/11

I will just note my prior posts on  9/10/2001 and 9/11/2001.
Maybe I will write more in a few days.

“Forensic Theology” & “Mahdism In The News”

Guest poster Charles Cameron writes at Zenpundit:
Why is eschatological or apocalyptic rhetoric significant?
It is an accelerant. Simply put, it is a force-multiplier, acting on morale via the sphere of religion, by providing divine sanction for violence — zeal with a deadline.
Oh boy. Fun fun fun! Read it all. Sigh.

Iranian People – Freedom Step by Step

Found via Twitter – http://twitter.com/NYkrinDC/status/2327590329
The people will have to get freedom for themselves by themselves. They must wear out the tyrants. They must endure tragedy and atrocity. They can bring over the fence-sitters by morally defeating the fascists, showing grace and persistence with cleverness, shaming-and-embracing the fence sitters This won’t be easy but they can [...]

Free Iran?

Good luck to them. I wish them success.

“CIA interrogators waterboarded an Al Qaeda prisoner 183 times, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memo, and another prisoner 83 times, the New York Times reported on Monday.”

Cry me a River. Not.

US Marines + South Park + Saadam = Awesomeness!

Found via Slashdot:

During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan.[...]“I have it on pretty good information from the marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the [...]

The location of a future hard target in the Long War is…

…here.

Congrats My Fellow Americans! Rejoice! The War on Terror is over!

How about that!
The Long War /GWOT must have been one because it it no longer exists. The terrorist threat (really the threat to American way from the Global Islamofascist Movement with assistance from the hardcore Leftists enablers and useless idiots such as Transnational Progressives).
While it is true, that the US may face a few [...]

“Excellent. Okay, question one… Are you or have you ever been a member of the Taliban?”

Mike Baker speculates on where VP Biden got his numbers:

Date: 24 February 2009
Call Center Employee: Redacted
Subject: Call #4, Call recipient: Commander Mullah Omar and wife Judy
Audio Transcript
Dialing… ringtone… connection established:
“Yes?”
“Yes, good morning… is this Mr or Mrs Commander Mullah Omar?”
“Who is this?”
“Hi there, I’m calling from the Spenkman Center for Research and Policy. How are [...]

“It’s their country – surge them”

Read it here.

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairwoman Feinstein has a big mouth

Jeez:

At a hearing, Feinstein expressed surprise over Pakistani opposition to the campaign of Predator-launched CIA missile strikes against Islamic extremist targets along Pakistan’s northwestern border.
“As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base,” she said.
The basing of the pilotless aircraft in Pakistan suggests a much deeper relationship with the United States on [...]

“even believers in the ‘domino theory’ did not expect to see the Viet Cong fighting in San Francisco”

The article might be correct. In San Francisco they would have been welcomed as liberators by a large part of the population.

Seriously though. Afghanistan is not Vietnam. Islamofascism is not Maoism. Mountains are not jungles and rice patties. The 1960’s and 1970’s are over. 60k troops are not 500k. Pakistan is not China nor is [...]

Gaza and Sharia

Hmmm….

PC: Talk to me about Gaza, your hometown. What, in your opinion, is really going on there?
ND: The world needs to understand the roots of the eternal conflict, which is the Sharia law commandment to kill all Jews. Peace can only happen if such roots are exposed and understood.
For decades, Arabs had demanded that Israel [...]

The US case for radical energy use efficiency and for switching to alternative energy sources

I have been looking to blog on this for sometime, but it came out in a comment at TDAXP:
The best case for the US to move to radical energy use efficiency and to switch a lot more to alternative energy (while sharing or selling the techniques and technology to the rest of the world to [...]

Notes So Far: Israel vs. Hamas

1. The Long war continues.
2. It is unclear to me what Israel’s goal is.
3. Is their goal to destroy all Hamas military Capability? They can cause much damage from the air, but they won’t destroy Hamas completely. To destroy Hamas completely, would require ground activity – big time. I don’t think that is [...]

“Shari`ah finance is a new weapon in the arsenal of what might be termed fifth-generation warfare (5GW)”

So say Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen in Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency; Edited by Jeffrey Norwitz; US Naval War College,June 2008, chapter 28.
They write:
Shari`ah finance is a new weapon in the arsenal of what might be termed fifth-generationwarfare (5GW).2 The perpetrators include both states and organizations, advancing a global [...]

“Jaish-e-Mohammed leader placed under house arrest”…

…so it is reported in Long War Journal.
Given that it is the ISI that has him under “arrest” and that he is in his own home, I assume his house arrest is similar to when I am under “arrest” by a blizzard and choose to stay cozy in my home while watching TV and ordering [...]

How a Successful US/Iraq 4GW Ends: “Sadr fades into irrelevance”

Hot Air notes:

We couldn’t (or wouldn’t) kill him when he tried to go to war against our military, but Moqtada al-Sadr has all but managed to commit political suicide.  At one time, Sadr commanded tens of thousands of militia members and played kingmaker in national politics.  Now the movement has all but faded as Sadr [...]

Terrorist Attack on India – Notes

I don’t want anybody to think I am not interest becuase  I didn’t blog on. I just didn’t have anything to add. I watched coverage on Fox, streaming coverage from an Indian New Network (via Fox) and blog coverage (especially Shlok and also Zen’s roundup).
Some notes/thoughts
1) How good does a policy of treating terrorism mostly [...]

“Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school”

So say UK church leaders presumable concerned that that the Islamification of Europe is not proceeding fast enough.
For the US, Europe is going to be a real problem down the line. The longer Europe puts off a reckoning, the worse this will become.
Possible scenarios:
1) An politicians in increasingly Islamic Europe will be less likely to [...]

This is how the US can loose in Afganistan

Noted in the Wall Street Journal:

“This war has gone on for seven years, the Afghans don’t understand anymore, how come a little force like the Taliban can continue to exist, can continue to flourish, can continue to launch attacks,” Mr. Karzai told a visiting United Nations delegation Tuesday. His office released a transcript Wednesday.[...]Mr. Karzai [...]

Victory in Iraq Day – 11/22/2008

Victory in Iraq day!

Rock On Indian Navy, Rock On!

Hell yeah!

The Indian navy has been given formal approval by the United Nations to go after pirate ships in Somali waters, the BBC has learnt.

Though, I am not sure why UN Approval is needed.

“We can now enter the Somali territorial waters under certain circumstances. It would be only to check piracy,” he said.
India has called [...]