Military

Military  (group,  war)
Interest of	• Mike Hoare • Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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 page	Logo	WWW	Description
15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group			A UK army psyop group.
32 Battalion			An apartheid-era unit of the South African Army
7644 (Media operations) Squadron		http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafreserves/squadrons/rafhaltonno7644mediaoperationssquadron.cfm
AFRICOM		http://www.africom.mil
Aegis Defence Services			PMC founded in 2002 by Cercle attendee Tim Spicer
ArmorGroup		http://www.g4s.com/	One of the largest private security firms operating in Iraq
Army Reserve		http://www.army.mod.uk/reserve/31781.aspx
BAE Systems		http://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.
Blackwater		http://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 Risks		http://www.controlrisks.com	A 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 Kingdom		http://www.defenceacademy.ac.uk	Provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other UK Government Departments and personnel from other nations.
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency		http://www.dera.gov.uk
Defence Export Services Organisation
Defence Media Operations Centre		http://www.defencemediaops.co.uk/
Defence Strategy & Solutions LLP		http://www.defencestrategy.com
Directorate General Media and Communications
Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations
EUCOM			The United States European Command.
Executive Outcomes			A 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 Regiment			Apartheid-era special forces unit of the South African Defence Force, specialising in amphibious operations.
IGO			Highly 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 Forces		http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/	Big force for a small country
JFIT			British military interrogation unit set in Iraq after the 2004 invasion
Joint Services School of Intelligence
Joint Support Group
Joint Warfare Establishment
Keenie Meenie Services			A private military contractor implicated in Iran Contra. Bought out in 1977 by Major David Walker (SAS).
MBDA		http://www.mbda.co.uk	Missile systems company
Marconi Company
Marconi Electronic Systems
Media Operations Group (V)
Military Reconnaissance Force
NATO		http://www.nato.int	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."
NORTHCOM
Netherlands/Ministry of Defence		https://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 Regiment			An apartheid-era army unit. Predominantly black soldiers with white senior officers and with a strength of approximately 1000, for cross-border raids.
Operation Gladio			Secret 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 Protection		http://web.archive.org/web/20010219222254/http://www.phoenixcp.com/
Quia Oportet			State secret Dutch company listed in Dutch Ministry of General Affairs as elongation of Operation Gladio
SBS			A UK Special Forces Unit
SOUTHCOM			Responsible for the 'defense' of South America
Saladin Security Ltd		http://www.saladin-security.com
Sandline International		http://www.sandline.com
Science Applications International Corporation		http://www.saic.com/	A company which specializes in complex engineering and technology programs for U.S. military and intelligence agencies
South African Defence Force			Parent group of the Civil Cooperation Bureau
... further results

 

Examples

Page name	Description
14th Intelligence Company	A 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 Austin	United States Secretary of Defense
Çevik Bir	Turkish general who organized 1997 'soft' coup.
Deborah Birx	White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Broke own rules on social gathering.
Michael Jeffery	Special Action Forces, counter-terrorism, then Governor General of Australia
Cristopher Lincoln-Jones
Ahmad Shah Massoud	Ahmad Massoud.jpg
Military base	Bases with military.
Military concept	concept invented by the military
Curtis Scaparrotti	Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2016-2019, Atlantic Council board member
Willem Scherpenhuijsen	Dutch banker/soldier
Edgardo Sogno
Andrew Thorne	British general who helped establish post-war deep state in Norway.
United Nations Operation in the Congo	UN's first and largest peacekeeping mission
Unmarked helicopter
Gary Wilkinson
Tod Wolters	NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2019-2022. Enthusiast for flexible first use of nuclear weapons.

 

Party Member

Politician	Born	Died	Description
Hugo Banzer	10 May 1926	5 May 2002	Two time President of Bolivia

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