TF 373 dedicated thread

[Jan Klimkowski]

Lieutenant Colonel George Crawford, who retired from the position of “lead strategist” for the Special Forces Command to go work for Archimedes Global, Inc., a Washington consulting firm, has suggested that F3EA be replaced by one term: “Manhunting.” In a monograph published by the Joint Special Operations University in September 2009, “Manhunting: Counter-Network Organization for Irregular Warfare,” Crawford spells out “how to best address the responsibility to develop manhunting as a capability for American national security.”

See here:

Manhunting: Counter-Network Organization for Irregular Warfare by George A.Crawford
Issue Date: September 2009
File Size: 3.3MB
Despite the increasing employment of manhunting, the U.S. national security establishment has not developed appropriate doctrine, dealt with challenging legal issues, nor has it organized forces and assigned clear responsibility to deploy and employ these capabilities. Manhunting could become an important element of future U.S. national security policy, as highly trained teams disrupt or disintegrate human networks. This monograph reviews historical cases related to manhunting and derives lessons from a large number of these historical manhunting operations. Building on these lessons, the monograph then explores potential doctrine, evaluates possible organizational structures, and examines how to best address the responsibility to develop manhunting as a capability for American national security.

http://jsoupublic.socom.mil/publications...s_2009.php

This is a classic of Orwellian War On Terror language abuse (my emphasis):

Manhunting could become an important element of future U.S. national security policy, as highly trained teams disrupt or disintegrate human networks.

Let's put that in English (with a splash of Dubya Bush):

Manhunting could become an important element of future U.S. national security policy, as military, intelligence and private contractor mercenary teams capture, maim or murder anyone we unilaterally determine is a Bad Guy.

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