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Interest of• Mike Hoare
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Military groups, generally hierarchical in nature, often controlled by nation states, are organisations that specialise in using violence to achieve political ends of their masters.

A military is a heavily armed, highly organised force that exists primarily for warfare. It is typically used by a nation state.  

Military Groups on Wikispooks

Wikispooks pageWWWDescription
15 (UK) Psychological Operations GroupA UK army psyop group.
32 BattalionAn apartheid-era unit of the South African Army
7644 (Media operations) Squadronhttp://www.raf.mod.uk/rafreserves/squadrons/rafhaltonno7644mediaoperationssquadron.cfm
AFRICOMhttp://www.africom.mil
Aegis Defence ServicesPMC founded in 2002 by Cercle attendee Tim Spicer
ArmorGrouphttp://www.g4s.com/One of the largest private security firms operating in Iraq
Army Reservehttp://www.army.mod.uk/reserve/31781.aspx
BAE Systemshttp://www.baesystems.com/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.
Blackwaterhttp://web.archive.org/web/20060913205901/http://www.blackwaterusa.com/Blackwater was a huge US-based private military contractor infamous for a string of scandals.
CENTCOM
CIA/Special Activities Center
Civic Action Service
Control Riskshttp://www.controlrisks.comA British "private security" company set up in 1975 by David Walker (SAS), comparable to Kroll Inc set up in New York in 1972
Defence Academy of the United Kingdomhttp://www.defenceacademy.ac.ukProvides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other UK Government Departments and personnel from other nations.
Defence Evaluation and Research Agencyhttp://www.dera.gov.uk
Defence Export Services Organisation
Defence Media Operations Centrehttp://www.defencemediaops.co.uk/
Defence Strategy & Solutions LLPhttp://www.defencestrategy.com
Directorate General Media and Communications
Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations
EUCOMThe United States European Command.
Executive OutcomesA private military contractor which offered "Security management" and "full-service risk management consulting". It operated during the 1990s and boasted 500 military advisers and over 3000 military personnel, largely drawn from the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau.
Five Reconnaissance Regiment
Four Reconnaissance RegimentApartheid-era special forces unit of the South African Defence Force, specialising in amphibious operations.
IGOHighly influential and powerful organizations that legally go beyond borders. IGOs have come very close to forming an actual "new world order" in the 2000s.
Intelligence Research Unit
Israel/Defense Forceshttp://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/Big force for a small country
JFITBritish military interrogation unit set in Iraq after the 2004 invasion
Joint Services School of Intelligence
Joint Support Group
Joint Warfare Establishment
Keenie Meenie ServicesA private military contractor implicated in Iran Contra. Bought out in 1977 by Major David Walker (SAS).
MBDAhttp://www.mbda.co.uk
Marconi Company
Marconi Electronic Systems
Media Operations Group (V)
Military Reconnaissance Force
NATOhttp://www.nato.intThe 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."
NORTHCOM
Netherlands/Ministry of Defencehttps://english.defensie.nl/Eager and successful partner of the US and NATO in War on Terror but can't control its own national war on drugs. Implicated in war crimes in Indonesia, Bosnia & Iraq.
One Reconnaissance RegimentAn apartheid-era army unit. Predominantly black soldiers with white senior officers and with a strength of approximately 1000, for cross-border raids.
Operation GladioSecret for over 40 years, Gladio is a NATO-backed network of armed soldiers inside the nations of Europe outside effective control of national governments. Ostensibly intended for use only in case of a Soviet invasion, Gladio carried out a string of false flag terror attacks. In 1990, the European parliament asked all member states to launch investigations, but only 5 national governments did so.
Phoenix Close Protectionhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010219222254/http://www.phoenixcp.com/
Quia OportetState secret Dutch company listed in Dutch Ministry of General Affairs as elongation of Operation Gladio
SBSA UK Special Forces Unit
SOUTHCOMResponsible for the 'defense' of South America
Saladin Security Ltdhttp://www.saladin-security.com
Sandline Internationalhttp://www.sandline.com
Science Applications International Corporationhttp://www.saic.com/A company which specializes in complex engineering and technology programs for U.S. military and intelligence agencies
South African Defence Force
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Examples

Page nameDescription
14th Intelligence CompanyA secretive unit of the British Army used to put SAS and SAS trained personnel on the streets in Northern Ireland while being able to pretend that the SAS were not deployed there.
4 Field Survey Troop
Air force
Lloyd AustinUnited States Secretary of Defense
Çevik BirTurkish general who organized 1997 'soft' coup.
Deborah BirxWhite House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Broke own rules on social gathering.
Black helicopterBlack helicopters that have been spotted in different circumstances in the skies above the US, but also the UK.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Michael JefferySpecial Action Forces, counter-terrorism, then Governor General of Australia
Cristopher Lincoln-Jones
Ahmad Shah MassoudAhmad Massoud.jpg
Military baseBases with military.
Military conceptconcept invented by the military
Curtis ScaparrottiSupreme Allied Commander Europe from 2016-2019, Atlantic Council board member
Willem ScherpenhuijsenDutch banker/soldier
Edgardo Sogno
Andrew ThorneBritish general who helped establish post-war deep state in Norway.
United Nations Operation in the CongoUN's first and largest peacekeeping mission
Gary Wilkinson
Tod WoltersNATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2019-2022. Enthusiast for flexible first use of nuclear weapons.

 

Party Member

PoliticianBornDiedDescription
Hugo Banzer10 May 19265 May 2002Two time President of Bolivia
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