Gladio's tentacles

[Jan Klimkowski]

And Phil responded re Rand:

In other news, Herman Kahn was employed by the Rand Corporation. Used systems theory and game theory to supercede MAD, devising counters to pre-emptive first strike scenarios.

Conceivably Rand's 1972 counterterror database was a prescient view of the post-Cold War model twenty years hence.

Gladio provided a range of countermoves to Soviet expansion. Its force, unused for its intended purpose, exercised a strategy of tension.

Is Benghazi a helping hand to the Mau Mau. Certainly 911 was strategic tension, opening the gates to extraordinary Federal executive power, neutralization of constitutional safeguards, access to heroin, an exercise for the dogs of war cooped up for too long.

Kahn was thinking of a world Kennedy wanted to dismantle. Certainly a Rand study deemed it more cost-effective to dismantle Kennedy.

As Rumsfeld oversaw consigning terabytes of Able Danger data to oblivion, no doubt there is nothing this side of the memory hole of the calculations of the threat posed by the 35[SUP]th[/SUP] president to the military-industrial complex, the intelligence sword and shield of the powerful, the Federal Reserve, the free flow of narcotics at market prices.