The consequences and patterns of war, whether by one nation against
another or by a government against the citizenry, rarely change.
However, the methods of war have evolved vastly in modern times. Wars by
elites against populations are often so subtle that many people might
not even recognize that they are under attack until it is too late.
Whenever I examine the conceptions of “potential war” between
individuals and oligarchy, invariably some hard-headed person cries out:
“What do you mean ‘when?’ We are at war right now!” In this case, I am
not talking about the subtle brand of war. I am not talking about the
information war, the propaganda war, the economic war, the
psychological war or the biological war. I am talking about outright
warfare, and anyone who thinks we have already reached that point has
no clue what real war looks like.
The recent exposure of the nationwide Jade Helm 15 exercise has made
many people suspicious, and with good reason. Federal crisis exercises
have a strange historical tendency to suddenly coincide with very real
crisis events. We may know very little about Jade Helm beyond
government admissions, claims and misdirections. But at the very least,
we know what “JADE” is an acronym for: Joint Assistance for Deployment
and Execution, a program designed to create action and deployment
plans using computer models meant to speed up reaction times for
military planners during a “crisis scenario.” It is linked with another
program called ACOA (Adaptive Course of Action), the basis of which is
essentially the use of past mission successes and computer models to
plan future missions. Both are products of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
As far as I know, no one has presented any hard evidence as to what
“HELM” really stands for, but the JADE portion of the exercise
explicitly focuses on rapid force deployment planning in crisis
situations, according to the government white paper linked above. This
fact alone brings into question statements by the Department of Defense
that Jade Helm is nothing more than a training program to prepare
military units for “foreign deployment.” This is clearly a lie if Jade
Helm revolves around crisis events (which denotes domestic threats),
rather than foreign operations.
Of course, if you also consider the reality that special operations
forces ALWAYS train like they fight and train in environments similar
to where they will fight, the entire notion of Jade Helm as a
preparation for foreign theaters sounds absurd. If special operations
forces are going to fight in Iraq, Iran or Syria, they go to training
grounds in places like Kuwait. If they are training in places like Fort
Lauderdale, Florida (including “infiltration training”), then there is
no way around the fact that they are practicing to fight somewhere
exactly like Fort Lauderdale with a similar culture and population.
I would further note that Jade Helm exercises are also joint
exercises with domestic agencies like the FBI and the DEA. Again, why
include domestic law enforcement agencies in a military exercise merely
meant to prepare troops for foreign operations? I often hear the
argument that the military would never go along with such a program, but
people who take this rather presumptive position do not understand
crisis psychology. In the event of a national catastrophe many military
personnel and government employees may determine that they will do what
is "best for them and their families". And if following orders
guarantees the security of their families (food security, shelter, etc),
then they may very well follow any order, no matter how dubious. Also,
a large scale crisis could be used as a rationale for martial law;
otherwise well meaning military men and women could be convinced that
the loss of constitutional freedoms might be for the "greater good of
the greater number". I believe some military will indeed resist such
efforts, but of course, Jade Helm may also be a method for vetting such
uncooperative people before any live operation occurs.
So if Jade is actually a crisis-planning system for the military and
the military is training for domestic operations, what is the crisis it
is training to react to? It’s hard to say. I believe it will come down
to an economic disaster, but our economic and social structures are so
weak that almost any major event could trigger collapse. Terror
attacks, cyberattacks, pandemic, a stiff wind, you name it. The point
is the government expects a crisis to occur. And with the advent of
this crisis, the ultimate war on the American people will begin.
Why wait for a crisis situation? With the cover of a crisis event,
opposition to power is more easily targeted. For my starting point on
the elite war strategy, I would like to use the following presentation
on guerrilla warfare by Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations senior
fellow and military adviser, at the elitist World Affairs Council.
I would first point out that Boot claims his work is merely a
historical character study of interesting figures from the realm of
insurgency and counterinsurgency and is not “polemical.” I’m afraid
that I will have call horse hockey on that. Boot is direct adviser to
the Department of Defense. His work and this presentation were
obviously a study of guerrilla tactics from the perspective of
counterinsurgency and an attempt to explore strategic methods for
controlling and eradicating guerrillas and “terrorists.”
