Military - new material (41)
01 November 2002
Don't attack Iraq. Stop the War Coalition no. 1 (May) 2002, pp4. This is the first issue of the Coalition's national bulletin, which brings together the arguments against pursuing a war on Iraq in order to guarantee US oil supplies. The Coalition organised a successful, broad-based 400,000 strong march against the war, and in support of freedom for Palestine, in September. Stop the War Coalition, PO Box 3739, London E5 8EJ.
America's bid for global domination, John Pilger. New Statesman 12.12.02. Pilger discusses the "threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals" as expressed by institutions such as the Project for the New American Century, the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute and others that have "merged the ambitions of the Reagan administration with this of the current Bush regime." He cites Richard Perle who, both as an advisor to Reagan and George W. Bush, advocates "total war" on terror: "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq...this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war...our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
Mercenaries Inc. Soloman Hughes. Red Pepper January 2003, p.11. Hughes looks at DynCorp, a US-based multinational that manages its military operations from Wiltshire in the UK. The "private miliary company" supplies bodyguards to Karzai in Afghanistan, "is involved in fire-fights with FARC members" in the war on drugs in Columbia and runs police forces in Kosovo and Bosnia. It also earns nearly £7 million for supplying police officers and training in East Timor and Haiti. One officer turned whistleblower, who won at an industrial tribunal recently, revealed that staff visited brothels and traded in prostitutes while policing in the Balkans.
Doctrine for Joint Urban Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Publication 3-06, 16.9.02. This timely publication, prepared under the direction of the director of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses the planning and conduct of joint military urban operations. Using the slogan "Cities are the most likely battlefield in the 21st century" it covers "planning and conducting joint urban operations", "operational tasks and considerations", "noncombatants" and "infrastructure" and has six appendices and a glossary.s