The Alphen Group

The Alphen Group (Deep state faction?)
From the group's website in 2024
Founder	Julian Lindley-French
Sponsored by	Airbus, BAE Systems, NATO, UK/FCO
Membership	• Franco Algieri • John Allen • Arne Bard Dalhaug • Anne Bader • Jordan Becker • Robert Bell • Jim Bergeron • Rob Bertholee • Hans Binnendijk • Robbie Boyd • Yves Boyer • Heinrich Brauss • John Bruni • Ian Brzezinski • Vincenzo Camporini • Deeph Chana • Richard Cripwell • Ivo Daalder • Marta Dassu • Gordon (Skip) Davis • Slawomir Debski • Jaap De Hoop Scheffer • Rob De Wijk • Judy Dempsey • Giampaolo Di Paola • Konstantin Eggert • James Everard • Keir Giles • Camille Grand • Kate Hansen Bundt • Christopher Harper • Giles Hill • Ben Hodges • Richard Hooker • Peter Hudson • Giedrimas Jeglinskas • Karl-Heinz Kamp • Sarah Kirchberger • Thomas Kleine Brockhoff • Imants Liegis • Julian Lindley-French • Edward Lucas • Neil Macfarlane • Claudia Major • Holger Mey • Rainer Meyer Zum Felde • Andrew Michta • Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo • Antonio Missiroli • Zaneta Ozolina • Eric Povel • Stuart Peach • Jean-Paul Perruche • Trygve Refvem • David Richards • Aiden Roberts • Peter Roberts • Colin Robertson • Diego Ruiz Palmer • Mick Ryan • Sten Rynning • Paul Schulte • Alexandra Schwarzkopf • Hanna Shelest • Richard Shirreff • Stanley Sloan • Rupert Smith • Carsten Soendergaard • Georges Henri Soutou • Stefano Stefanini • Jim Townsend • Patrick Turner • Harlan K. Ullman • Alexander Vershbow • Anna Wieslander • Tomonori Yoshizaki • Kerry Buck • Robert Hunter • Jan Broeks • Jan Techau • Rick Waddell • Michal Baranowski • Paul Beaver • Elizabeth Buchanan • John (Mick) Nicholson • Peter Watkins • Hans-Werner Wierman
An "informal network of leading strategic thinkers"

The Alphen Group described itself as "an informal network of leading strategic thinkers who have come together to consider the future of the transatlantic relationship and European security and defence and do something about it."

Sponsors

The group held a conference financed by NATO and the armaments industry.

Membership

The group is reportedly chaired by Julian Lindley-French (formerly of the Institute for Statecraft). It contains several confirmed or suspected deep state operatives, including two from the IfS. Mostly male, the members are overwhelmingly drawn from Canada/US and Western Europe, with a few from aligned Eastern European nations.

 

Known members

20 of the 87 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
John Allen	A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
Anne Bader	Senior Associate Fellow of the Institute for Statecraft
Rob Bertholee	Former Director General of the AIVD.
Hans Binnendijk	Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO.
Yves Boyer	Co-edited the The Oxford Handbook of War with Institute for Statecraft member Julian Lindley-French
Ian Brzezinski	Son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, member of the Integrity Initiative's US Cluster.
Ivo Daalder	USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11
Marta Dassù	Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies...
Keir Giles	Russophobic UK deep state operative, member of Integrity Initiative.
Ben Hodges	Retired United States Army officer who was commanding general, United States Army Europe, where he pushed for a "military Schengen area" to allow the rapid freedom of movement of US troops and equipment in Europe. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2022.
Robert Hunter	Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War.
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Julian Lindley-French	UK Deep state operative. Senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft and directed their "Strategic Partnerships" project. Chatham House
Edward Lucas	NATO/II journalist
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo	Former acting Secretary General of NATO.
David Richards	Leader of British army during wars in Libya and Syria.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO. He held an "anti-terrorist exercise" in Madrid 3 days before the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Richard Shirreff	UK general who was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2011-2014
Alexander Vershbow	SDS connected regular at the Brussels Forum
Tomonori Yoshizaki	The only Asian member of The Alphen Group as of 2024

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Airbus	Produces 50% of all jet aircraft in the world. Largest airliner manufacturer during the 2020s. Accused of bribery of multiple countries. Received a ban from a group of dozens of banks for "involvement in nuclear weapons production".
BAE Systems	A global arms company, with interests also in civilian avionics and engineering. Its subsidiaries are also involved in providing intelligence, personnel and logistics support to US/UK military.
NATO	The world's largest military alliance. "Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all."
UK/FCO	The UK government department dealing with foreign policy.

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