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 Military  (group, war)   | |
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| 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 | ||
| 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 |  | ||
| ... 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. |
| Black helicopter | Black 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 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 |
| 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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