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Title: Trump Aims To Cut The Neocon Deep State Off At The Knees
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URL Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017- ... ms-cut-neocon-deep-state-knees
Published: Jan 5, 2017
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2017-01-06 00:02:11 by Horse
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The Neocon-Neoliberals must be fired and put out to pasture before they do any more harm. I have long held that America's Deep State--the unelected National Security State often referred to as the Shadow Government--is not a unified monolith but a deeply divided ecosystem in which the dominant Neocon-Neoliberal Oligarchy is being challenged by elements which view the Neocon-Neoliberal agenda as a threat to national security and the interests of the United States. I call these anti-Neocon-Neoliberal elements the progressive Deep State. If you want a working definition of the Neocon-Neoliberal Deep State, Hillary Clinton's quip--we came, we saw, he died--is a good summary: a bullying, arrogance-soaked state-within-a-state pursuing an agenda of ceaseless intervention while operating a global Murder, Inc., supremely confident that no one in the elected government can touch them. Until Trump unexpectedly wrenched the presidency from the Neocon's candidate. The Neocon Deep State's response was to manufacture a mass-media hysteria that Russia had wrongfully deprived the Neocon's candidate (Hillary Clinton) of what was rightfully hers: the presidency. (The Neocons operate their own version of the divine right of Political Nobility.) The Neocon-Neoliberals' strategy was to delegitimize Trump's victory by ascribing it to "Russian Hacking," a claim that remains entirely unsubstantiated. Now that this grasping-at-straws Hail Mary coup attempt by a politicized C.I.A. and its corporate media mouthpiece has failed, the Neocon Deep State is about to find out the Progressive Deep State finally has a president who is willing and able to cut the Neocon-Neoliberals off at the knees. Trump Is Working On A Plan To Restructure, Pare Back The CIA And America's Top Spy Agency. If you want documented evidence of this split in the Deep State--sorry, it doesn't work that way. Nobody in the higher echelons of the Deep State is going to leak anything about the low-intensity war being waged because the one thing everyone agrees on is the Deep State's dirty laundry must be kept private. As a result, the split is visible only by carefully reading between the lines, by examining who is being placed in positions of control in the Trump Administration, and reading the tea leaves of who is "retiring" (i.e. being fired) or quitting, which agencies are suddenly being reorganized, and the appearance of dissenting views in journals that serve as public conduits for Deep State narratives. I have also long held that Wall Street's political dominance is part and parcel of the Neocon-Neoliberal ideology, and the progressive elements in the Deep State also want to (finally) limit the power of the big banks and the rest of the Wall Street crowd. Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity? (March 14, 2014) The split in the Deep State is a reflection of the profound political disunity that is occurring in the U.S. In other words, it isn't just disunity in the masses or the political elites--it's a division in all levels of our society. The cause is not difficult to discern: the concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of the few is generating levels of inequality that threaten democracy, the social order and the vitality of the economy: As someone who has studied the Deep State for 40 years, I find it ironic that so many self-identified "progressives" do not understand that the U.S. military is now the Progressive element and it's the civilian leadership--the Neocon- Neoliberals-- who are responsible for leading the nation into quagmires and handing the keys to the chicken coop to the wolves of Wall Street. When military leaders such as Eric Shinseki questioned the Neocon's insane "strategy" in Iraq--essentially a civilian fantasy of magical-thinking--the Neocons quickly cashiered him (Shinseki was a wounded combat veteran of Vietnam who rose through the ranks--the exact opposite of the coddled never-get-my- hands-dirty Elites in the civilian Neocon-Neoliberal leadership.) To the degree that the U.S. has become a Third World Oligarchy owned and controlled by a financial-political Elite, then the U.S. military is one of the few national institutions that hasn't been corrupted by top-down politicization and worship of Wall Street. Shinseki et al. did not amass a fortune from Wall Street like Bill and Hillary Clinton. The simple dictum--follow the money--maps the lay of the land rather neatly. The Neocon-Neoliberals have run the nation into the ground. They must be fired and put out to pasture before they do any more harm. That includes the Fake- "Progressives" and the fake-"Conservatives" alike who have enriched themselves within the Neocon-Neoliberal Oligarchy. If you are surprised that the Democratic Party, the C.I.A. and Wall Street are all hugging each other in the same cozy Neocon-Neoliberal Oligarchic embrace, you shouldn't be. Open your eyes. Could the Deep State Be Sabotaging Hillary? (August 8, 2016) 
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To the degree that the U.S. has become a Third World Oligarchy owned and controlled by a financial-political Elite, then the U.S. military is one of the few national institutions that hasn't been corrupted by top-down politicization and worship of Wall Street. Shinseki et al. did not amass a fortune from Wall Street like Bill and Hillary Clinton. The simple dictum--follow the money--maps the lay of the land rather neatly. The Neocon-Neoliberals have run the nation into the ground. They must be fired and put out to pasture before they do any more harm. That includes the Fake-"Progressives" and the fake-"Conservatives" alike who have enriched themselves within the Neocon- Neoliberal Oligarchy. Yes, follow the money ... to China and Israel, etc. before presuming that Shinseki, the Clinton admins, et al didn't profit from our troops being blown up in Iraq and other "scorched earth" designs of a sort by that cadre on their way out the door before GWBush and fellow-Neocons took over the .gov helm from them. Shinseki was a Clinton sidekick who assisted him in de-armouring the Army. When sent to Iraq, our troops had to use sandbags and scavenged parts to "up-armour" their vehicles in attempts to shield themselves from IEDs. Israel was one of the war-profiteering contractor outlets for "up-armour kits". As an additional swipe at the Military by Clinton & Clique, the Rangers' black beret was taken from them and assigned to the regular Army. To fill the massive orders for refitting most of the Army with black berets, Clinton illegally outsourced the production to China in violation of Law. Shinseki wasn't questioning the Neocons' insane "strategy" in Iraq. He simply stated the obvious that more troops would be needed there. At most, he might have spoken up that much because he knew that he was largely responsible for needless endangerment they would face without enough properly armoured vehicles in that "theatre".
More on those issues at Post #3 and at these 2 articles: Army Approaches Decision on Interim Combat Vehicle - nationaldefensemagazine.org September 2000 by Harold Kennedy "We're talking about transforming the entire Army," [Maj. Gen. James M.] Dubik said. "You can't do that without problems. But they're the kinds of problems we want. Transformation is about creating our future." Shinseki wants to have five of the new brigades by 2003. many are concerned that the new vehicles-while lighter than the Abrams-lack sufficient armor to survive a battle with heavy tanks. [Maj. Gen. B.B. Bell, the Army's chief of armor] conceded that survivability is a concern, asking: "How do you build a light platform that performs like an Abrams?" On this topic, he said, the Army needs to think like the Air Force. "The Air Force does not accept being hit." Bell said. "The reason is obvious: It's usually quite lethal." Army tanks, on the other hand, "have always taken the hit and defeated it with armor," Bell said. With the IAVs [Interim Armored Vehicles/Strykers], he said, that strategy has to change. Still, Bell is optimistic. "The scientists today are telling us there are some possibilities out there," he said. It will be years, however, before any new technology is ready for use, Shinseki warned. "Between now and 2010, there will be no change," he said. "What you see is what we'll take to war." POSTED BY: NOAHMAX MAY 19, 2004 The idea behind “reactive armor” is to blow up a roadside bomb or rocket propelled grenade just before it reaches the vehicle. The Israeli military pioneered the concept in the 1970’s. American tanks have had been outfitted with it for years. And now, Bradleys in Iraq are being rushed the armor, too, Defense News reports. THERE’S MORE: “I’d be leery of taking these into situations where large numbers of noncombatants might find themselves near [reactive armored] vehicles,” says Defense Tech reader JA. “An RPG hit that triggered one of these panels might not penetrate the vehicle but I suspect the potential for exacerbating collateral casualties might give one pause. Or it will after Al-Jazeera trumpets it from the minarets.” Meanwhile, reader MS points us to this online primer on reactive armor [site unavailable]. AND MORE: “The story here,” says reader DP, “is that the cheapskate Army under [chief of staff Eric] Shinseki squandered billions on handfuls of Stryker truck deathtraps and didn’t even come close to buying enough reactive armor.”
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestWhen military leaders such as Eric Shinseki questioned the Neocon's insane "strategy" in Iraq--essentially a civilian fantasy of magical-thinking--the Neocons quickly cashiered him (Shinseki was a wounded combat veteran of Vietnam who rose through the ranks--the exact opposite of the coddled never-get-my-hands-dirty Elites in the civilian Neocon-Neoliberal leadership.)
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Shinseki was a Clinton sidekick who assisted him in de-armouring the Army. When sent to Iraq, our troops had to use sandbags and scavenged parts to "up-armour" their vehicles in attempts to shield themselves from IEDs. Israel was one of the war-profiteering contractor outlets for "up-armour kits".
Shinseki's plan calls for the new brigades to trade in many of their 70-ton Abrams tanks for mobile gun systems that weigh perhaps as little as a third of that and can be loaded on to a C-130 Hercules air transport. The new brigades are intended to be models for the entire Army. It will take at least another decade, Shinseki estimates, to complete the service's transformation into what he calls "the Objective Force."
U.S. GETS EXPLOSIVE ARMOR FROM ISRAEL - defensetech.org, TOPICS:Armor The U.S. Army wants to protect its Bradley fighting vehicles — by strapping dozens of Israeli explosives to their skins.
The add-on armor… consists of 105 tiles that attach to the sides, the turret and the front of each Bradley. Each tile has a small explosive charge that can destroy the warhead of an attacking missile or rocket.
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