Under Operation Ghost Dancer the US Army National Guard operates airborne drug interdiction program Reconnaissance and Interdiction Detachments (RAID). The RAID units use the surveillance capabilities of the National Guard’s OH-58 Kiowa helicopters, outfitted with thermal imaging systems, to support local law enforcement agencies in states where drug trafficking is highest. The Guard assists with airborne evidence gathering activities, such as locating and identifying probable marijuana growing operations. Actual law enforcement is handled by local agencies. In one such operation, on 15 December 1992 members of the Oregon National Guard (ORNG) Counterdrug Support Program assisted the DEA, BATF, US marshals,…
Author: John Greenewald
The July 2009 cyber attacks were a series of coordinated cyber attacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States. The attacks involved the activation of a botnet—a large number of hijacked computers—that maliciously accessed targeted websites with the intention of causing their servers to overload due to the influx of traffic, known as a DDoS attack. Most of the hijacked computers were located in South Korea. The estimated number of the hijacked computers varies widely; around 20,000 according to the South Korean National Intelligence Service, around 50,000 according to Symantec’s Security Technology…
The following documents pertain to Strategic Gaming, the war game scenarios carried out by the military to further enhance their defense and offensive strategies. Unintended Consequences of Strategic Gaming, 02 May 1977 [ 50 Pages, 7.8MB ] – Strategic planning is an essential element of modern defense. It synthesizes the doctrine, politics, weapons and occasionally even the philosophy of the nation state. Because a country embodies its program for continued existence and the destruction of its opposition in it, strategic planning can directly affect many hundreds of millions of people.
Blackwater has a deep and dark history with the United States military and government. It has been renamed a few times since many of the conspiracy theories have run rampant about the organization. According to Wikipedia: Academi is an American private military company, founded in 1997 by Erik Prince. Formerly known as Blackwater, the company was renamed “Xe Services” in 2009, and “Academi” in 2011. The company was purchased in late 2010 by a group of private investors who changed the name to Academi and instituted a board of directors and new senior management. Prince retained the rights to…
Since the dawn of our intelligence and military agencies, soldiers, strategists, think tanks and others have spent an extensive amount of money, and devoted an amazing amount of time to developing wartime tactics and strategies. The below reports were received from multiple agencies on the topics, and are provided here for research. Declassified Documents Advanced Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Combat Concepts in the 21st Century [69 Pages] Allied Contributions to the Common Defense [133 Pages] THE CADRE PAPERS: Does the United States Need Space-Based Weapons? [127 Pages] Defense against Ballistic Missiles [15 Pages] Defense Science and Technology Base in…