The Australian frigate, HMAS Parramatta, encountered the Chinese Navy on multiple instances as it cruised through the East China Sea, near Taiwan. Details are not being released by the Australians in the interest of national security. One instance with a Chinese guided missile destroyer has been confirmed.
The Australian frigate, HMAS Parramatta, encountered the Chinese Navy on multiple instances as it cruised through the East China Sea, near Taiwan. Details are not being released by the Australians in the interest of national security. One instance with a Chinese guided missile destroyer has been confirmed.
Texas Governor Gregg Abort issued a directive, “WHEREAS, securing the international border is the federal government’s responsibility, but President Biden has refused to enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress….“ he gives the Texas National Guard authority to arrest people and return them to the border port of entry.
According to Hunter Biden’s own files obtained from his lost laptop, over the course of a 5-month period of time, the son of President Joe Biden spent $30k on prostitutes. A Ukrainian woman received the checks for these services. JPMorgan Chase filed a Suspicious Activity Report on these transactions.
The evidence might be only anecdotal, but the sudden explosion of interest in DIY Home gardening might produce a significantly higher percentage of Americans who are food independent than there are right now. Groups like Urban Farm are sprouting, and individuals are becoming associations of food independent Americans.
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New York passed a law requiring all conceal carry license applicants turn over their social media accounts for a panel to determine their ‘character and conduct.’ The bill was signed by unelected Democrat, Kathy Hochul, who never met a peasant she didn’t want to have her armed guards disarm.
Farmers in Europe revolt as green fascism spreads. “It is completely incomprehensible that in the middle of this far-reaching energy crisis, a sustainable domestic energy source such as biogas is being curbed in the production of electricity, heat, and biomethane,” Bernhard Krüsken, secretary-general of the German Farmers’ Association
Gmail marked 70 percent of GOP Campaign emails as spam, 10 percent of DNC. House Republican Elise Stefanik has a plan to correct this. “The Political BIAS Email Act….will combat Gmail’s censorship of Republican emails and bring greater transparency to its secret algorithms.”
The goal of this column is to present news from around the world that is not often – if ever – covered by more mainstream entities, using local sources wherever possible, but occasionally using news aggregators not used, again, by the mainstream media. Also, please note that we do use links to Wikipedia; while Wikipedia is well-known as a largely-useless site for any kind of serious research, it does serve as a launch-pad for further inquiry, in addition to being generally free of malicious ads. As with anything from Wikipedia, always verify their sources before making any conclusions based on their pages.
This column will cover the preceding week of news.
To make it easier for readers to follow story source links: anytime you see a bracketed number marked in green – [1] – those are the source links relating to that story.
This assassination, however, overshadowed by a staggering wave of hoax bomb threats made to college campuses around the nation, in what The Freedomist is now terming a “Strategy of Tension,” given it’s stark resemblance to similar events in the past. The only question, at this juncture, is who, exactly is behind this strategy, which began at least as far back as early 2016. In one instance, however,, one person was located and arrested after calling in a hoax threat. [1]-[25]
In a possibly related incident, police in Altus, OK recovered an IED that was discovered by a citizen taking trash to a dumpster. [26] In New York state, meanwhile, two persons were observed setting a live incendiary device against the crescent monument outside a mosque in Ronkonkoma, which caused minor damage to the monument. [27]
In war-torn Burkina Faso, suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 22 civilians and wounded numerous others in an attack on a farming commune in Kossi province on the night of July 3-4, according to the provincial governor. [1][2]
In neighboring Niger, a group of Boko Haram terrorists launched the second attack in three days on a Niger Army outpost near the country’s border with Chad. Niger Army forces beat back the attack, killing at least 17 terrorists, while suffering a reported 14 dead and 6 more wounded. [3]
Turning to Nigeria, the nation’s President – Muhammadu Buhari – survived an attack on his motorcade while en route to his home region of Katsina due to the swift reactions of his bodyguards. Officials are describing the attackers as “bandits“, rather than one of the various Islamist terror groups plaguing the country. Banditry in Nigeria has taken a dramatic upswing in recent years, as the nation’s security forces focus on combating the Islamic terror groups striking throughout the country. [1]
Elsewhere in the country, attacks on police and civilians continue, including the kidnapping of another Chinese ex-patriot worker and an officer of the Nigerian Navy visiting his home, as well as arson attacks around the country. Additionally, sometime-allies Boko Haram and ISWAP stormed a prison on the outskirts of the nation’s capital, Abuja, freeing over 400 hardened prisoners, along with many Islamist terrorists captured by the military and security forces. After some 27 were re-arrested, Boko Haram and ISWAP issued death threats against the families of the officers who had led the operations to capture the terrorists, as well as the officers responsible for recapturing the escapees. [2]-[10]
On the other hand, in a curious turn, the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab has reportedly denied that it funds Islamist terror groups in Mozambique and Nigeria. The Freedomist is investigating these claims at press time. [2][3]
Scattered violence in Afghanistan continues, with Taliban forces clashing internally, while also launching a campaign to forcibly displace families in the Panjshir Valley, the center of NRF resistance to their control of the country. [1]-[7]
Finally, turning to Myanmar, guerrilla’s resisting the nation’s military junta staged three simultaneous attacks in Mandalay City, the country’s second-largest urban center. The attacks may mark a dangerous shift in the philosophy of the resistance groups towards a more terror-focused approach, risking their credibility and legitimacy if the descend to the junta’s level, by attacking civilian targets.
Planning to fight a war is universally seen as aggressive. After all, “planning” to fight a war means that the planner intends to do serious violence to the people their war plan defines as “the enemy”, right? And violence is bad — therefore, war planning must be a bad thing…right?
Well – no.
Countries fight wars. If the reader learns nothing else from History class, it should be that. Now, wars are fought for many reasons; sometimes, those wars are fought for all the wrong reasons, for mistakes and errors of judgement, sometimes for loot or religion, and sometimes, just for the “doing” of conquest.
German troops crossing the Soviet border during Operation Barbarossa, 1941
But, what about “just” wars? Suppose that Country X has “stuff”. Country X is willing to share…but their neighbor, Country Y, doesn’t want to simply share – they want all the stuff. Country X has two options: they can blare a prerecorded message saying “We Surrender!” over loudspeakers scattered throughout the country, as Country Y’s forces march in (this was actually proposed by Leftist politicians in the Scandinavian country of Denmark in the 1980’s; the Danes – being Danes – declined), or Country X can resist.
Insert four and a half thousand years of recorded battle, army creation, training and support history here.
Ramses II at the Battle of Kadesh (relief at Abu Simbel)
Over the millennia, those who study war have been able to agree that certain aspects of warfare are universal. While this is not the venue to discuss all of those common aspects, one of the central tenets is that having a plan – almost any plan – when sharp, pointy objects start flying, is infinitely better than having no plan at all…as the US Army has rediscovered, as it frantically tried to reorient from twenty years of counterinsurgency operations back towards a more “traditional” scope of warfare, especially as the Russo-Ukrainian War grinds onward.
Now, it’s important to define what we’re talking about, here: we are talking about national-level plans. We are nottalking about what the British Army calls “Small Tactics“, the methods of maneuvering small groups of troops in direct combat with an enemy. Neither is it the maneuvering of larger units, such as regiments and brigades, or even divisions and corps‘.
What we are talking about here, is the planning at the national level. Let’s look at the best-documented modern example: the development of the so-called “Rainbow Plans” of the United States of America, in the first half of the 20th Century.
For countless generations after the collapse of the Roman Empire in Western Europe, common thinking on the mechanisms of warfare was usually limited to a very narrow spectrum of people, in any given place and time. It was only improvements in communications and the wider movements of people between states and cultures that opened the door to that interchange, beginning in earnest in the 15th Century: the walls of Constantinople – capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (often called the ‘Byzantine Empire‘) – had stood, impregnable, for over a thousand years before falling to Ottoman cannon fire…and those cannons were largely designed by a Christian Hungarian military engineer.
Foreign Officers and Correspondents after the Battle of Shaho, Manchuria, 1904.
By the 19th Century, it was entirely possible to find many foreign officers serving their respective states as observers in wars their state was not involved in: Prussian officers observed Federal forces during the American Civil War, while their counterparts from England observed the Confederate forces. These officers neither advised, nor took part in the fighting; they merely observed operations. The information and experiences they brought home, frequently helped shape their own armies’ future policies.
Still, however, war planning was generally a very nebulous exercise; it was usually done “on the fly“. Information was usually scarce, and commanders in the field largely had to guess at the situation they were walking into…And, if this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, it frequently was. This was taken as a “cost of doing business” by commanders, because no one saw an alternative.
Detail from Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry, July 2nd 1898.
Then-US Secretary of State John Hay might have called it a “splendid little war“, but in point of fact, the performance of the forces of the United States was abysmally bad. It is in no way a stretch to say that the United States won the war more because Spanish forces were even more incompetent than those of the USA were. Once the stirring sounds of marching bands and the cheers of the crowds faded in the war’s aftermath, the US Army and Navy faced the cold, hard fact that their respective on-scene commanders both pursued separate and uncoordinated theater strategies, and neither had either the information or support – intelligence or logistical – to properly execute the separate and mutually exclusive campaigns they had been assigned to pursue. Where the United States had been able to project military power beyond its shores fifty years before, and to effectively coordinate continent-spanning joint operations forty years prior, something had gone badly wrong.
The result, in 1903, was the formation of a Joint Army and Navy Board.
HMS Argus, 1918. US Navy photo
The Board’s mission was to plan for potential wars that the United States may need to wage. Since the 1870’s, the United States – like many European powers before it – had become increasingly tied to foreign trade; instability in a foreign land had the potential to cause significant damage to the US economy, if not start an actual shooting war. US military power at that time was nowhere near what it is today – the prospect of a hostile navy conducting a devastating shelling of US coastal cities was a very real concern.
Red guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917
Much has been made, over time, about the Joint Board and its supposedly isolated and insular nature, operating outside the reality of geopolitics. In fact, the Joint Board began by only acting on information fed to it from the civilian State Department. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, pre-planning major-war operations assumed new urgency. Like Iran some sixty years later, an ally quite literally changed from a friend to a potential enemy overnight.
As well, the context of the times must be understood. The United States had treated the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as very large “moats” for most of the preceding 125 years…Yet, in the space of barely 17 years – from 1891 to 1904 – the United States has seen not only technological advances that saw massive vessels crossing the Atlantic in barely a week, but had also seen a near-war with Chile that would have required sending naval reinforcements all the way around South America with no guarantee of bases and possible hostile state’s navies in the way, as the strategic shortcut of the Panama Canal had not yet been built; the aforementioned Spanish-American War; the Second Boer War, where great Britain had deployed nearly half a million troops from around its world-spanning empire to a theater that defined the term “remote”, and introduced the term “concentration camp” to the modern English language lexicon; the Boxer Rebellion and the joint-international Peking Relief Expedition; the Philippine Insurrection; and the Russo-Japanese War, best thought of as the beta-test for World War 1, as it was only missing the poison gas and airplanes. The United States was now facing a serious threat of possible invasion from non-Western Hemisphere industrial powers, who were capable of matching US military power.
The Joint Board thus began examining as many potential conflicts as it could realistically foresee, as evidenced by the list of plans they produced at some level, between 1904 and 1945:
Some of these plans are well known, such as ORANGE (the war plan to defeat the Empire of Japan), and RED (the war plan to fight Great Britain, the subject of a somewhat breathless documentary by Britain’s Channel 5, in 2011). But the rest of the plans reflected the reality of the United States’ strategic situation in the first four decades of the 20th Century.
One aspect of these plans were the so-called “Rainbow Plans“, begun in the 1930’s, that postulated potential wars against alliances of multiple states on the list.
So — what goes into a war plan at this level?
The primary purpose of a nation’s strategic war plan against a potential enemy, is to present a realistic assessment of that potential opponent’s capabilities. Assessing the strategic intent of an enemy is not usually a concern for the war planner, because – as in the case of both Russia and Iran – those intentions can change with surprising speed. A war plan focuses on the actions of the “friendly country” once war has been declared, or (as was the case after the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) once combat operations have commenced.
A war plan is a theoretical blueprint. It seeks to present “best options”, based on the best available assessments of the potential enemy in question:
What resources does the enemy possess? What are the points of entry into their country?
What targets and systems need to be attacked, in what order?
What forces and facilities of the enemy need to be attacked immediately, and which can be bypassed, and dealt with later?
What are the enemy’s capabilities to strike your country and its forces?
These are not questions that can be addressed on the fly. The information takes time to assemble, and planners are only human – the cycle of information intake, assessment and employment cannot be accelerated at short notice. A war plan, then, uses the most accurate information available to make general plans. Those general plans are far easier to alter based on current information flowing in, than starting from scratch. Broad operational orders can be disseminated to commands beforehand, to get the right forces moving, in the right order, in the shortest possible time.
But…Why is this important?
German women doing their washing at a water hydrant in a Berlin street.
No one profits from long wars. The faster the decision cycle, the faster that decisive, war-winning dominance can be gained by one side or the other, the faster the war ends, and the fewer people die…And therein lays the secret that anti-military people hate to acknowledge: the best militaries always seek to win as quickly as possible, with the fewest number of deaths to the “friendly” side — and, more likely than not, fewer deaths on the “enemy” side. That requires states to quite literally spend money on guns, instead of butter: to plan, prepare, stockpile equipment, train troops, maintain ready forces and update all of those things as necessary, against the day when they may be needed.
The core of the war plan, then, is a clear understanding of what the planning force is to accomplish, in the shortest possible time, with the most effective expenditure of people and resources.
Failure to plan effectively, inevitably leads to complete failures of strategy, and long, bloody wars, that can last interminably, wrecking the economy of the country and killing entire generations of youth.
Would, that leaders of the first part of the 21st Century had listened to the leaders of the first part of the 20th.
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After Idaho University ordered three Christians to not contact anyone that might be offended by their Christianity, Federal Judge David Nye has granted a preliminary injunction ordering the school to end its own order. The three students are Mark Miller, Ryan Alexander, and Peter Perlot.
Former Disney employees are suing the mouse over how it treated them for refusing to get the vaccine. “The mask, face shield, and distancing from cast and guest were clearly punitive measures designed to…. intimidate me into taking an experimental vaccine,” said Adam Pajer, one of the suing employees.
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A new axis is forming between Turkey, Russia, and Iran. Now, the three countries are moving to create a joint auto manufacturing venture. “There is a great possibility of tripartite cooperation between car manufacturers and suppliers of the three countries,” said Mohammadreza Najafi-Manesh, Iran’s Auto Parts head.
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