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Title: Pentagon studying Putin's body language
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AFP
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Published: Mar 7, 2014
Author: AFP
Post Date: 2014-03-07 19:58:57 by Dakmar
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Comments: 10
(AFP) – 1 hour ago Washington — A Pentagon research team is studying the body language of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign leaders to better predict their behavior, officials said Friday. The project, previously conducted under the State Department, is now backed by the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment. Putin's psychological profile was last updated in 2012, a Pentagon official said. Advocates of such studies argue that it could help US officials anticipate the Russian leader's actions after he ordered troops into neighboring Ukraine, taking control of the semi-autonomous Crimean Peninsula, which has led to tensions with the West reaching levels not seen since the Cold War. Pentagon analysts have studied about 15 foreign leaders including Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby insisted "for sure" that the studies do not inform the military's policy decisions, saying Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel only learned of them following a USA Today report. "They go right to the Office of Net Assessment, as I understand it, and they have not been used to inform any policy or program decisions here at the Department of Defense," he said. He said about $300,000 has been spent on the studies each year since 2009. Studying someone's body language and movements, usually using split-second video footage, can help determine behavioral habits and individual psychology, according to experts. Pentagon researcher Brenda Connors characterized Putin's body language in 2004 as indicating he was "risk averse -- stuck in place and time" as well as being "extremely sensitive to criticism". And in an interview in The Atlantic magazine in 2005, she said a walking problem of Putin's -- possibly because he did not crawl as a child -- "created a strong will that he survive and an impetus to balance and strengthen the body." "He is like that ice skater who had a club foot and became an Olympic skater," Connors said. "It is really poignant to watch him on tape. This is a deep, old, profound loss that he has learned to cope with, magnificently." Poster Comment: Dear President Obama and your ride-along whores, Putin is telegraphing trustworthiness, stability, sanity, and reliance on common sense. I know all this must have you confused, even despondent, but to the average person it is a sign that your reign of idiocy is nearing its end, and none too soon. Please step out of the picture peacefully, and allow the USA to rejoin the human race.
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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
From: The Pentagon To: POTUS RE: Putin body language analysis I. Putin really doesn't respect POTUS. II. The End 
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/outin-obama.jpg
#3. To: X-15 (#1)
That's the crux of it. Let's have a War! :) I. Putin really doesn't respect POTUS.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#4. To: Dakmar (#3)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#6. To: Dakmar (#0)
I will help them out, he isn't gay. Obama will have to look elsewhere.
God is always good!
#7. To: Dakmar, sane people, 4, the rest (#0)
Amen. Dear President Obama and your ride-along whores, Putin is telegraphing trustworthiness, stability, sanity, and reliance on common sense. I know all this must have you confused, even despondent, but to the average person it is a sign that your reign of idiocy is nearing its end, and none too soon. Please step out of the picture peacefully, and allow the USA to rejoin the human race.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#8. To: RickyJ (#6)
And in an interview in The Atlantic magazine in 2005, she said a walking problem of Putin's -- possibly because he did not crawl as a child -- "created a strong will that he survive and an impetus to balance and strengthen the body." "He is like that ice skater who had a club foot and became an Olympic skater," Connors said. "It is really poignant to watch him on tape. This is a deep, old, profound loss that he has learned to cope with, magnificently." What are the odds Brenda Connors is not a neurotic freak with deep ties to international finance? Pentagon researcher Brenda Connors characterized Putin's body language in 2004 as indicating he was "risk averse -- stuck in place and time" as well as being "extremely sensitive to criticism".
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#9. To: Dakmar (#8)
What are the odds, indeed?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#10. To: Dakmar, 4 (#0) (Edited)
"They go right to the Office of Net Assessment, as I understand it, and they have not been used to inform any policy or program decisions here at the Department of Defense," he said. He said about $300,000 has been spent on the studies each year since 2009. 1.5 million dollars of Military funding frittered away on this and the Secretary of Defense has to go through a newspaper to find anything about it. Sounds like the Office of Net Assessment has become something like Wolfowitz and Feith's Office of Special Plans. The United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment (ONA) was created in 1973. The Director of Net Assessment is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on net assessment matters. According to Defense Directive 5111.11, the Director shall develop and coordinate net assessments of the standing, trends, and future prospects of U.S. military capabilities and military potential in comparison with those of other countries or groups of countries so as to identify emerging or future threats or opportunities for the United States. In essence, ONA operates as an internal think tank for the Department. Andrew Marshall [92, born September 13, 1921] was named its first director, a position he appears to still hold under the Obama administration. Staff members have included: David S. Yost Edited for bracketed inserts and to add a link. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby insisted "for sure" that the studies do not inform the military's policy decisions, saying Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel only learned of them following a USA Today report.
John Milam, strategic analyst
Donald Henry, "special assistant to the director of net assessment in the Office of Net Assessment within OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense]"
Stephen Michael Meyer
Andrew D. May
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., currently the director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Keith Bickel, currently Director of Corporate Strategy for Freddie Mac
Tim Graczewski, currently Director of Strategic Alliances & Corporate Development for Intuit
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