21-03-2012, 08:01 AM
As you are all aware, the recent massacre in Afghanistan has
resurrected the spectre of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
What you may not know was that the My Lai massacre was the result of a
Phoenix program operation: http://www.whale.to/b/ph2.html
As you may know, Phoenix is the model for the war on terror. See
David Kilkullen "Countering Global Insurgency" in :
http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/kilcullen.pdf
Page 40: A Global Phoenix Program'
"As discussed in Part 1, the enemy in this War comprises a
multifarious, intricately ramified web of dependencies that like a
tribal group or crime family exists for its own sake. This network
behaves more like a traditional Middle Eastern patronage network than
a mass guerrilla movement. The jihad is what the network does, it is
not the network itself.
"As the organic systems model of insurgency shows, disrupting this
network demands that we target the links (the web of dependencies
itself) and the energy flows (inputs and outputs that pass between
actors in the jihad) as the primary method of disrupting the system.
An exclusive focus on attacking the boundary interactions of the
system that is, attempting to stop terrorist attacks or catch
terrorists themselves simply imposes an evolutionary dynamic that
causes the insurgent system to develop better means of attack.
"This concept of de-linking' is central to the Disaggregation
strategy. It would result in actions to target the insurgent
infrastructure that would resemble the unfairly maligned (but highly
effective) Vietnam-era Phoenix program. Contrary to popular mythology,
this was largely a civilian aid and development program, supported by
targeted military pacification operations and intelligence activity to
disrupt the Viet Cong Infrastructure. A global Phoenix program
(including the other key elements that formed part of the successful
Vietnam CORDS system) would provide a useful start point to consider
how Disaggregation would develop in practice.78"
Warren Milberg (a CIA officer in the Phoenix program in Quang Tri in
1967-8), describes an operation similar in every respect to Task Force
Barker's in his thesis, "The Future Applicability of the Phoenix
Program" written for Air University in 1974. If any of you wants one,
I can send you a copy (fot cost of disk and postage).
Douglas Valentine
PO Box 60262
Longmeadow MA 01116
resurrected the spectre of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
What you may not know was that the My Lai massacre was the result of a
Phoenix program operation: http://www.whale.to/b/ph2.html
As you may know, Phoenix is the model for the war on terror. See
David Kilkullen "Countering Global Insurgency" in :
http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/kilcullen.pdf
Page 40: A Global Phoenix Program'
"As discussed in Part 1, the enemy in this War comprises a
multifarious, intricately ramified web of dependencies that like a
tribal group or crime family exists for its own sake. This network
behaves more like a traditional Middle Eastern patronage network than
a mass guerrilla movement. The jihad is what the network does, it is
not the network itself.
"As the organic systems model of insurgency shows, disrupting this
network demands that we target the links (the web of dependencies
itself) and the energy flows (inputs and outputs that pass between
actors in the jihad) as the primary method of disrupting the system.
An exclusive focus on attacking the boundary interactions of the
system that is, attempting to stop terrorist attacks or catch
terrorists themselves simply imposes an evolutionary dynamic that
causes the insurgent system to develop better means of attack.
"This concept of de-linking' is central to the Disaggregation
strategy. It would result in actions to target the insurgent
infrastructure that would resemble the unfairly maligned (but highly
effective) Vietnam-era Phoenix program. Contrary to popular mythology,
this was largely a civilian aid and development program, supported by
targeted military pacification operations and intelligence activity to
disrupt the Viet Cong Infrastructure. A global Phoenix program
(including the other key elements that formed part of the successful
Vietnam CORDS system) would provide a useful start point to consider
how Disaggregation would develop in practice.78"
Warren Milberg (a CIA officer in the Phoenix program in Quang Tri in
1967-8), describes an operation similar in every respect to Task Force
Barker's in his thesis, "The Future Applicability of the Phoenix
Program" written for Air University in 1974. If any of you wants one,
I can send you a copy (fot cost of disk and postage).
Douglas Valentine
PO Box 60262
Longmeadow MA 01116
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass