China's counter-insurgency against the Uighurs:

1) Declare Islam a mental disease

"they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day."

theatlantic.com/international/…
2) Send a million people (mostly men) to re-education camps

nytimes.com/2018/08/10/wor…
3) Send a million ethnically correct party members to live in their homes (police their behaviors under threat of camps)
Subtext: Mass rape as policy.

"After Yunus’s parents and older brother were detained, only Yunus’s sister-in-law and 5-year-old brother remained in the house. Around the beginning of 2018, a Han Chinese man started staying with them full-time."

apnews.com/article/ap-top…
4) An open-air prison, built with modern surveillance technology

"The app.. allows police officers to flag people they believe have stopped using a smartphone, have begun avoiding the use of the front door at home or have refueled someone else’s car."
"The police use the app at checkpoints that serve as virtual “fences” across Xinjiang. If someone is tagged as a potential threat, the system can be set to trigger an alarm every time he or she tries to leave the neighborhood or enters a public place."

nytimes.com/2019/05/22/wor…

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14 Aug
What we're seeing in Afghanistan is a great demonstration of how to switch realms of warfare.

From guerrilla warfare fought in the moral realm (and given the rapid collapse of the ANA, a complete success) to maneuver warfare fought in the psychological realm (more success).
Note: Why is maneuver warfare in the psychological realm?

Maneuver warfare uses rapid movements that maximize ambiguity, deception, and novelty in order to disorient, disrupt, and overload an opponent's decision-making.
That's exactly what we are seeing.

This was two days ago:

cbsnews.com/news/afghanist…
Read 5 tweets
14 Jul
"They enable extremely centralized command and control (as in: operations can be micro-manged down to the decision to kill). In sum, a small number of people in Washington DC can control and operate a vast 24x7 killing field for very few $$."

globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrill…
'a more interesting idea is how it gets applied to US internal security when... the current system loses much of its remaining legitimacy'
In that scenario:

"even a mildly radical post to a blog, Facebook, or Twitter (particularly if it could lead to a flashmob or an occupy style protest) would invite inclusion on the drone assassination list"
Read 4 tweets
14 Jul
"U.S. Capitol Police will start using Army surveillance equipment to monitor Americans as part of a larger effort to improve security and turn the force into “an intelligence-based protective agency"

americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/capito…
"Last week, the USCP took possession of eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground – Medium (PSSG-M) units"
Sounds like the beginnings of a Praetorian Guard:

"During the era of the Roman Republic, the Praetorians served as a small escort force (and intelligence agency) for high-ranking officials such as senators... and also serving as bodyguards for high-ranking officers"
Read 4 tweets
17 Jun
White House Domestic Terrorism strategy document is out.

It's a Patriot Act on steroids.

In short, it reorients Homeland Security to focus on domestic threats/unrest.

/continued

whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
It calls for new spending on:

Expansion of domestic data collection/analysis

Consolidation/sharing of intelligence on groups/individuals of interest

Discovery of transnational connections (an NSA trigger)

/cont.
Government-wide training on identifying and dealing with domestic threats

Expanded online surveillance and censorship

Expanded legal resources

Legislative reforms - new criminal laws

Screening and vetting of all DoD, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement employees
Read 5 tweets
7 Jun
The establishment is gearing up for "the next great emergency"
Put into this perspective -- the power outage in Texas was a sign of things to come.
Read 5 tweets
19 May
"a message appeared in a new WhatsApp channel called “Death to the Arabs.” The message urged Israelis to join a mass street brawl against Palestinian citizens of Israel.

That evening... black-clad Israelis smashing car windows and roaming the streets"

nytimes.com/2021/05/19/tec…
"at least 100 new WhatsApp groups have been formed for the express purpose of committing violence against Palestinians"

"The WhatsApp groups, with names like 'The Jewish Guard' and 'The Revenge Troops,' have added hundreds of new members a day over the past week"
"On one new WhatsApp group that The Times reviewed, “The Revenge Troops,” people recently shared instructions for how to build Molotov cocktails and makeshift explosives. The group asked its 400 members to also provide addresses of Arab-owned businesses that could be targeted."
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