12 May 2010
Human Terrain Teams Feared more than CIA:
Cureton Blinded for Life, Laurie Adler Returns
by John Stanton
You have no sense about the intriguing world of intelligence gathering!
I am dead scared of a Peace Corps
Team wanting to help a strategically
important country affected by a natural disaster [rather] than a CIA team
stationed in [an] embassy or a very safe house. These Peace Corps
Teams
consist of academics, experts and intellectuals. They basically are Human
Terrain Teams that have 'social scientists' who map relationships and create
databases of local leaders, economic issues, social problems, castes and
political disputes as well as using mapped knowledge and cultural insights
to advise military commanders
How the LTTE Was Militarily
Defeated: A Soldier's
Point
of View
As reported earlier,
Sargeant Wesley Cureton,
USA, was wounded while working with a Human Terrain Team in Afghanistan.
A number of sources report that Cureton "is blind for the rest of his life."
Cureton is located somewhere in a Texas at a medical facility still undergoing
rehabilitation for injuries sustained while with an HTT. Sources say he is
being visited and is also receiving telephone calls from family and friends.
Civilian antipathy for soldiers working with/for HTS has grown say observers.
Some have indicated that civilians openly state that the US military/soldiers
are in the way. According to one source, that this attitude prevails at HTS
is not surprising as one of its senior leaders takes a Pontius Pilate approach
to it all. "Montgomery [McFate] had always talked about how easy it was to
dupe people in the US military and in academia. She believes she has no peers."
Brilliance, it seems, is a blinding force as well.
And so the culture clash within HTS goes on.
The old Superman Comic's
Bizarro
World comes to mind here. It's a weird world where all is convoluted/upside
down.
US politicians and military leaders repeatedly make the case that "serving
your nation in uniform in the highest calling for an American." While that's
debatable, what is not is that soldiers wounded while in close proximity
to HTT's are ignored by US Army/HTS management. Big Press (MSM) goes to cover
the exploits of HTS civilian academics-contractors alive or dead. It's a
rare occasion that the sacrifice/fate of a soldier such as FLT.
Brennan
is told. The world may never have known about his sacrifice were it not for
General David Petraeus, USA, who happened to take a liking to the young
Lieutenant.
Buy a Seaplane, Get a Discount on Glevum's F2RA
An
Intelligence
Online headline reads thus:
"Glevum, The US Army's
Social Surveyor...To gain a better understanding of the 'human' terrain in
combat zones where it is engaged, the U.S. Army turns to research carried
out by Glevum Associates." Glevum's polling of 1,994 individuals using its
Face-to-Face Research and Analysis (F2RA) in Kandahar, Afghanistan,
was widely praised and covered by the Big Press. Andrew Garfield has brought
his firm to the forefront of human/cultural analysis. His client list is
utterly impressive and includes the US Army's Human Terrain System. Is Glevum
the go-to contractor for the US Army HTS?
A peek at Glevum's leadership team reveals that Laurie Adler (former Lincoln
Group and HTS) is back in the national security game. There is one little
tidbit of interest in her company bio and it is this: in addition to Glevum
duties, Adler is also currently
"the Senior Public Affairs Advisor for the Dornier Seaplane Company." According
to the French Canadian press, Dornier Seaplane Company will be building an
assembly plant in Canada and will announce the location of the plant after
17 May 2010.
At first glance, it seems odd that Adler would be working for a group like
Dornier Seaplane
Company that does not appear to be involved in national security. She has
had an exceptional career in the national security industry and that's where
her expertise seems to be. But a closer look at DSC's Seastar CD2 reveals
that it is ideal for military and intelligence operations. According to the
Seastar's specifications, "the target applications for this segment are coastal
surveillance, search and rescue, covert operations, drug interdiction, disaster
relief, humanitarian, medical and missionary work."
The aircraft has an array of features suited to stealthy water-based operations
of the type required for Foreign Internal Defense, COIN, kill-capture, or
even dropping off an HTT, or personnel from Glevum, to do some polling/mapping
somewhere in, say, the Niger Delta or up/down a river anywhere in the world.
US Special Operations Command and Pacific Command may be interested in this
type of aircraft particularly as US activity in Southeast Asia and Africa
heats up.
How about the US Marine Corps which actually does
information
operations/human terrain analysis and mapping the right way?
USSOCOM, CENTCOM, MPRI, BAE, State Department, and Psyop Task Forces Iraq
and Afghanistan are other clients of Glevum.
"Seastar has the unique capability to combine in a single operation surveillance
and intervention by landing on water next to the target. On water, Seastar
features the maneuverability and speed of a powerboat; the Dornier-typical
sponson platforms facilitate personnel, equipment or stretcher ingress and
egress on water; Seastar can mask itself from radar at sea (within sea clutter)
by loitering on water remotely offshore and close to the target area for
extended time periods. Thus, Seastar enables surprise interventions, paramount
for the success of many operations; Seastar's capability to combine joint
operations of different transport means like helicopters, vessels and fixed
wing aircraft in one single mission results in drastic cost savings and increase
in operational efficiency;
Routine single engine surveillance operation extends on-station endurance
to up to 10 hours; Seastar is an electronically quiet aircraft because of
its all-composite construction. Radome (s) can be integrated into the fuselage
structure (front or side). Seastar inherently eliminates rotor modulation
common with helicopters; Composite structure is highly damage tolerant. Wing
and fuselage hard points can be added for external stores; Large cabin
facilitates multiple sensor consoles and crew member stations. External
visibility from the cockpit is well suited for Night Vision Goggles operations;
and Seastar (with its high horizontal stabilizer) can be flown with a modified
cabin door to deliver airdropped material."
A muddled image comes to mind here and includes flashes of HTS, HTT's, CAPS
(Vietnam), Phoenix Project, Air America, incestuous networking defense
contractors, social scientists for the Kill Chain, and Selous Scouts.
The image becomes clear now as well as a realization.
Full Spectrum Dominance and thus American Imperialism can only be achieved
through some sort of emotionless, brutal Project Scylla. The project starts
with understanding the evolutionary/social sciences, the human brain/mind,
and the target culture and its geographic terrain. Then it is on to screwing
with the minds of the indigenous occupants of that terrain and setting them
right or alight. That's what COIN/HTS and Soft Power are all about in the
end. America is on the right track. But can it afford the price?
"I am dead scared of
Human Terrain Teams."
John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in national security.
Reach him at cioran123[at]yahoo.com.
John Stanton's Human Terrain System articles:
http://cryptome.org/0001/hts-stanton.htm
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