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A medida que han evolucionado y se han sofisticado las guerras en todo el mundo, esa definición de “enemigo” se ha hecho más amplia para algunos o más ambigua para otros, puesto que se ha involucrado a la población civil dentro de las estrategias militares. Lo que queda claro entonces, es que la población civil se ha convertido en un objetivo principal del dominio o exterminio de un grupo o país sobre otro(4,8).Summerfield refuerza el enunciado anterior con números y porcentajes de personas afectadas por situaciones de guerra, es decir, como la población civil ha sido y es blanco de esas acciones militares, siendo así que para la primera guerra mundial el 5 % de las muertes fueron de civiles; en la segunda guerra mundial subió para un 50 % de muertos civiles; en la guerra de los EEUU con Vietnam llega a cifras de hasta un 80 % y en la actualidad el autor estima un 90 % de civiles muertos en situaciones de guerra. También UNICEF informó que entre el periodo de 1986 a 1996 habían dos millones de niños muertos en guerras y ACNUR reporta actualmente 18 millones de refugiados en el mundo, de estos el 90 % corresponden a personas civiles refugiados en países en desarrollo.Por lo tanto, la ciencia militar o la militarización de la ciencia en sí no ha quedado limitada solo a mejorar los aspectos balísticos propiamente dichos, sino también se ha preocupado por incorporar y manejar los aspectos psicológicos con estrategias claras y precisas sobre la población civil inmersa en conflictos armados y en contextos de violencia organizada. Para ello, ha involucrado a otros científicos en sus estrategias militares, tales como: psicólogos, antropólogos, psiquiatras, etc. De tal forma que al lado de una intervención militar o de violencia organizada están los aspectos de la guerra psicológica.
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/04/27/internacional/1335532966.htmlCitarUna serie de ataques que ha dejado cerca de una treintena de heridos, varios de ellos menores de edad, ha estremecido este viernes a Ucrania, a seis semanas de que comience la Eurocopa de fútbol.En pocos minutos estallaron cuatro bombas en lugares concurridos de la ciudad industrial de Dnipropetrovsk, de donde procede la ex jefa de gobierno Yulia Timoshenko, actualmente en prisión.El Ministerio del Interior en Kiev informó que hay al menos 29 personas heridas, entre ellas 10 niños. Cinco de las víctimas se encuentran en estado grave. La fiscalía habló de un atentado terrorista.El gobierno de Kiev se encuentra bajo presión por su trato a la oposición. Especialmente por el caso de la ex primera ministra Timoshenko, condenada a prisión por presunto abuso de poder en un polémico juicio criticado a nivel internacional.Es la primera vez en los últimos años que ocurre un atentado de esta magnitud en Ucrania. El primer artefacto, escondido en una papelera, estalló junto a una parada de tranvía. Poco después se registraron tres explosiones más, una de ellas en una estación y cerca de la ópera de la ciudad. Testigos informaron en internet de escenas de pánico y de tumultos.Nadie ha asumido la autoría de los hechosPor ahora no hay indicios o pistas sobre los posibles autores. No hubo ni amenazas de ataque ni nadie ha asumido la autoría de los hechos, según indicaron las autoridades.La serie de bombas es un "ataque contra todo el país", dijo el presidente Viktor Yanukovich, quien encargó al servicio secreto SBU y al ministerio del Interior una investigación inmediata de lo ocurrido. "Daremos la respuesta adecuada", dijo el jefe de Estado. El ministro del Interior, Vitali Sajarchenko, viajó de Kiev a Dniepropetrovsk.Parece que las amenazas van tomando forma... Los medios empezaran a hacerse eco(siendo la Eurocopa saldra el tema de Ucrania hasta en la prensa deportiva) y los "terroristas" se convertiran en luchadores por los derechos humanos con los que intentaran hacernos empatizar para justificar la politica exterior respecto a la revolucion de colores
Una serie de ataques que ha dejado cerca de una treintena de heridos, varios de ellos menores de edad, ha estremecido este viernes a Ucrania, a seis semanas de que comience la Eurocopa de fútbol.En pocos minutos estallaron cuatro bombas en lugares concurridos de la ciudad industrial de Dnipropetrovsk, de donde procede la ex jefa de gobierno Yulia Timoshenko, actualmente en prisión.El Ministerio del Interior en Kiev informó que hay al menos 29 personas heridas, entre ellas 10 niños. Cinco de las víctimas se encuentran en estado grave. La fiscalía habló de un atentado terrorista.El gobierno de Kiev se encuentra bajo presión por su trato a la oposición. Especialmente por el caso de la ex primera ministra Timoshenko, condenada a prisión por presunto abuso de poder en un polémico juicio criticado a nivel internacional.Es la primera vez en los últimos años que ocurre un atentado de esta magnitud en Ucrania. El primer artefacto, escondido en una papelera, estalló junto a una parada de tranvía. Poco después se registraron tres explosiones más, una de ellas en una estación y cerca de la ópera de la ciudad. Testigos informaron en internet de escenas de pánico y de tumultos.Nadie ha asumido la autoría de los hechosPor ahora no hay indicios o pistas sobre los posibles autores. No hubo ni amenazas de ataque ni nadie ha asumido la autoría de los hechos, según indicaron las autoridades.La serie de bombas es un "ataque contra todo el país", dijo el presidente Viktor Yanukovich, quien encargó al servicio secreto SBU y al ministerio del Interior una investigación inmediata de lo ocurrido. "Daremos la respuesta adecuada", dijo el jefe de Estado. El ministro del Interior, Vitali Sajarchenko, viajó de Kiev a Dniepropetrovsk.
Reflections on "Small Wars" and Military Waste; Four Reasons Congress Wastes Money on Useless Defense Programs(...)Four Reasons-Defense contractors bribe Senators and Representatives with campaign contributions. Those who are "soft on defense" do not get bribe money and have a hard time getting elected.-Congress likes jobs in their districts and absurd levels of completely useless defense contracts provides high-paying jobs.-Neanderthals like Mitt Romney are still fighting the Cold War.-The Supreme Court absurdly ruled that corporations are people, thereby enabling the warmongers and defense contractors to outspend any candidate who is not committed to more wars.
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on IslamThe U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”The course, first reported by Danger Room last month and held at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College, has since been canceled by the Pentagon brass. It’s only now, however, that the details of the class have come to light. Danger Room received hundreds of pages of course material and reference documents from a source familiar with the contents of the class.The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to make sure it doesn’t contain similarly hateful material, a process that is still ongoing. But the officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, still maintains his position at the Norfolk, Virginia college, pending an investigation. The commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels who sat in Dooley’s classroom, listening to the inflammatory material week after week, have now moved into higher-level assignments throughout the U.S. military.For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement communities, trying to convince whoever it could that America’s real terrorist enemy wasn’t al-Qaida — but the Islamic faith itself. In his course, Dooley brought in these anti-Muslim demagogues as guest lecturers. And he took their argument to its final, ugly conclusion.“We have now come to understand that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam,’” Dooley noted in a July 2011 presentation (.pdf), which concluded with a suggested manifesto to America’s enemies. “It is therefore time for the United States to make our true intentions clear. This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated. Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction.”Dooley could not be reached for comment. Joint Forces Staff College spokesman Steven Williams declined to discuss Dooley’s presentation or his status at the school. But when asked if Dooley was responsible for the course material, he responded, “I don’t know if I would classify him [Dooley] as responsible. That would be the commandant” of the school, Maj. Gen. Joseph Ward.That makes the two-star general culpable for rather shocking material. In the same presentation, Dooley lays out a possible four-phase war plan to carry out a forced transformation of the Islam religion. Phase three includes possible outcomes like “Islam reduced to a cult status” and “Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation.” (It’s an especially ironic suggestion, in light of today’s news that Saudi intelligence broke up the most recent al-Qaida bombing plot.)International laws protecting civilians in wartime are “no longer relevant,” Dooley continues. And that opens the possibility of applying “the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki” to Islam’s holiest cities, and bringing about “Mecca and Medina['s] destruction.”Dooley’s ideological allies have repeatedly stated that “mainstream” Muslims are dangerous, because they’re “violent” by nature. Yet only a few of al-Qaida’s most twisted fanatics were ever caught musing about wiping out entire cities.“Some of these actions offered for consideration here will not be seen as ‘political correct’ in the eyes of many,” Dooley adds. “Ultimately, we can do very little in the West to decide this matter, short of waging total war.”Dooley, who has worked at the Joint Forces Staff College since August 2010, began his eight-week class with a straightforward, two-part history of Islam. It was delivered by David Fatua, a former West Point history professor. “Unfortunately, if we left it at that, you wouldn’t have the proper balance of points of view, nor would you have an accurate view of how Islam defines itself,” Dooley told his students. Over the next few weeks, he invited in a trio of guest lecturers famous for their incendiary views of Islam.Shireen Burki declared during the 2008 election that “Obama is bin Laden’s dream candidate.” In her Joint Forces Staff College lecture, she told students that “Islam is an Imperialist/Conquering Religion.” (.pdf)Stephen Coughlin claimed in his 2007 master’s thesis that then-president George W. Bush’s declaration of friendship with the vast majority of the world’s Muslims had “a chilling effect on those tasked to define the enemy’s doctrine.” (.pdf) Coughlin was subsequently let go from his consulting position to the military’s Joint Staff, but he continued to lecture at the Naval War College and at the FBI’s Washington Field Office. In his talk to Dooley’s class (.pdf), Coughlin suggested that al-Qaida helped drive the overthrow of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak and Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. It was part of a scheme by Islamists to conquer the world, he added. And Coughlin mocked those who didn’t see this plot as clearly as he did, accusing them of “complexification.”Coughlin titled his talk: “Imposing Islamic Law – or – These Aren’t the Droids Your Looking For!”Former FBI employee John Guandolo told the conspiratorial World Net Daily website last year that Obama was only the latest president to fall under the influence of Islamic extremists. “The level of penetration in the last three administrations is deep,” Guandolo alleged. In his reference material for the Joint Forces Staff College class, Guandolo not only spoke of today’s Muslims as enemies of the West. He even justified the Crusades, writing that they “were initiated after hundreds of years of Muslim incursion into Western lands.”Guandolo’s paper, titled “Usual Responses from the Enemy When Presented With the Truth” (.pdf), was one of hundreds of presentations, documents, videos and web links electronically distributed to the Joint Forces Staff College students. Included in that trove: a paper alleging that “it is a permanent command in Islam for Muslims to hate and despise Jews and Christians” (.pdf). So was a video lecture from Serge Trifkovic, a former professor who appeared as a defense witness in several trials of Bosnian Serb leaders convicted of war crimes, including the genocide of Muslims. A web link, titled “Watch Before This Is Pulled,” supposedly shows President Obama — the commander-in-chief of the senior officers attending the course — admitting that he’s a Muslim.Dooley added the caveats that his views are “not the Official Policy of the United States Government” and are intended “to generate dynamic discussion and thought.” But he taught his fellow military officers that Obama’s alleged admission could well make the commander in chief some sort of traitor. “By conservative estimates,” 10 percent of the world’s Muslims, “a staggering 140 million people … hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you, unless you submit” to Islam. He added, “Your oath as a professional soldier forces you to pick a side here.” It is unclear if Dooley’s “total war” on Muslims also applied to his “Muslim” commander in chief.After the Pentagon brass learned of Dooley’s presentation, the country’s top military officer, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, issued an order to every military chief and senior commander to get rid of any similar anti-Islam instructional material. Dempsey issued the order because the White House had already instructed the entire security apparatus of the federal government — military and civilian — to revamp its counterterrorism training after learning of FBI material that demonized Islam.By then, Dooley had already presented his apocalyptic vision for a global religious war. Flynn has ordered a senior officer, Army Maj. Gen. Frederick Rudesheim, to investigate how precisely Dooley managed to get away with that extended presentation in an official Defense Department-sanctioned course. The results of that review are due May 24.Ironically, Dooley and his guest lecturers paint a dire picture of the forward march of Islamic extremism right as its foremost practitioner feared its implosion. Documents recently declassified by the U.S. government revealed Osama bin Laden fretting about al-Qaida’s brutal methods and damaged brand alienating the vast majority of Muslims from choosing to wage holy war. Little could he have known that U.S. military officers were thinking of ways to ignite one.
USA declara que ya no respeta la Convención de Ginebra porque "no es relevante"...
CitarUSA declara que ya no respeta la Convención de Ginebra porque "no es relevante"... Ah, pero... ¿la respetaban?
Cita de: Petardazo Inminente en Mayo 15, 2012, 12:51:20 pmCitarUSA declara que ya no respeta la Convención de Ginebra porque "no es relevante"... Ah, pero... ¿la respetaban?Cierto, cierto... pero al menos antes lo negaban todo hasta que era innegable y entonces *decían* que abrían investigaciones y hacían un poco el paripé... pero es que ahora ya se permiten el lujo de que salga en "loh papeleh" que la oficialidad deja por escrito que es una opción recurrir otra vez al holocausto atómico sobre población civil y que la Convención de Ginebra se la pasan por el arco del trinufo: "ya no se respeta ná" (ni las apariencias, tan siquiera).
Si no su inicio, sí al menos su perpetuación sin razones evidentes. ¿Cuántos años llevamos en Afganistán de misión humanitaria? ¿Tantos como en Vietnam, o más? ¿Se espera que por muchos años más que estén allí las tropas, los afganos dejen de ser islamistas y turbulentos?