U.S. SPECIAL FORCES SCHOOL PUBLISHES NEW GUIDE FOR OVERTHROWING FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

[Judi Lynn]

BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 5/8/19 AT 3:06 PM EDT

The official school of the United States' Special Operations Command has published a new paper detailing a decades-long history of Pentagon-backed interference around the world, hoping to provide insight on how best to approach such efforts in the present and future.

The 250-page study, "Support to Resistance: Strategic Purpose and Effectiveness," was compiled by Army Special Forces veteran Will Irwin and published earlier this week by the official Joint Special Operations University, where he was a resident senior fellow. Though the report notes that its views "are entirely those of the author," its findings present a comprehensive look at how the U.S. has supported efforts to pressure, undermine and overthrow foreign governments.

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The cases were broken down into three major support to resistance (STR) categories: disruption, coercion and regime change. The report found that "from 1940 to the present, nearly 70 percent of STR operations were conducted for disruptive purposes," while "non-disruptive cases were about equally divided between coercion and overthrow."

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In eight of the 20 failures found, the author blamed security breaches that clued the enemy in ahead of time, sometimes potentially through coverage in U.S. media, as may have been the case with newspaper stories prior to the abortive CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

More:
https://www.newsweek.com/us-guide-overthrow-government-special-forces-school-1419837

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I find this disgusting. It's a total misuse of the military which is

supposed to be defending the US, not trying to mold the world to our benefit.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

2. Well, maybe that would

be handy after all -- since we are being ruled by an ostensibly foreign government.

[Firestorm49]

3. Disruption, coercion and regime change? Sound familiar?