Justifying Yeltsin? No wonder their army's demoralized-- he's told them to kill their own people who want their independence back from what used to be the Soviet super-state! The military-- the USAF-- and Capt. John Paradis-- had better consider that if rebellion arises, the fact that the military's willing to kill its country's own people is why the rebellion happened in the first place. --THE LIE >X-Sender: jyaat_private >Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:49:47 -0400 >To: cypherpunksat_private >From: John Young <jyaat_private> >Subject: Asymmetric Warfare >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-cypherpunksat_private >Precedence: first-class >Reply-To: John Young <jyaat_private> >X-Loop: cypherpunksat_private > >Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 15:34:10 -0500 >From: "90. USAFnews" <usafnewsat_private> > >980734. Special operations commander outlines future threats >by Capt. John Paradis >16th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs > >HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- More Chechnyas. If a military strategist >needed to look at a good model for the typical future conflict, the war >torn republic of Chechnya comes to mind, said Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, >U.S. Special Operations Command commander in chief. > >Speaking recently to about 2,000 Hurlburt Field troops at the 55th >Aircraft Maintenance Unit hangar, Schoomaker said the only certainty in >the future of warfare is that security challenges will be more ambiguous >and will follow less traditional paths. > >Looking at Chechnya as an example of future conflict, confrontation will >likely differ from the more conventional and familiar "total war" by the >inclination of future adversaries to use "psychological terror" and the >influence of international media, the Internet and even cell phones to >employ open brutality as an information warfare tactic. > >Russian President Boris Yeltsin, determined to crush the secessionist >drive of the tiny, mainly Muslim southern republic, ordered about 40,000 >troops into Chechnya in December 1994. What was planned as a quick >campaign turned into a long and costly war, in which the outnumbered >rebels time and again dealt heavy blows to a demoralized Russian >military. > >It's such "asymmetric" opponents like separatists, rebel groups, >insurgents and terrorists that U.S. special operations forces will need >to prepare for -- enemies who won't attack U.S. strategic strengths, but >will instead target U.S. vulnerabilities by executing unorthodox >measures to gain success, Schoomaker said. > >"That's the future. More Chechnyas," the general said. "We are going >to see more conflict of this nature because it's a much different world >we're facing." >
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