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    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...l-war-of-2016/

    Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles.

    At issue is an article in the respected Small Wars Journal led “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future.” It was written by retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army's University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber, a Civil War expert at the University of Kansas. It posits an “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement” seizing control of Darlington, S.C., in 2016, “occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council and placing the mayor under house arrest.” The rebels set up checkpoints on Interstate 95 and Interstate 20 looking for illegal aliens. It’s a cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario.

    The article is a choppy patchwork of doctrinal jargon and liberal nightmare. The authors make a quasi-legal case for military action and then apply the Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 to the situation. They write bloodlessly that “once it is put into play, Americans will expect the military to execute without pause and as professionally as if it were acting overseas.” They claim that “the Army cannot disappoint the American people, especially in such a moment,” not pausing to consider that using such efficient, deadly force against U.S. citizens would create a monumental political backlash and severely erode government legitimacy.

    The vision is hard to take seriously. As retired ArmyBrig. Gen. Russell D. Howard, a former professor at West Point, observed earlier in his career, “I am a colonel, colonels write a lot of crazy stuff, but no one listens to colonels, so I don’t see the problem.” Twenty years ago, then-Air Force Lt. Col. Charles J. Dunlap Jr. created a stir with an article in Parameters led “The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.” It carried a disclaimer that the coup scenario was “purely a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction.”

    The scenario presented in Small Wars Journal isn’t a literary device but an operational lay-down intended to present the rationale and mechanisms for Americans to fight Americans. Col. Benson and Ms. Weber contend, “Army officers are professionally obligated to consider the conduct of operations on U.S. soil.” This is a dark, pessimistic and wrongheaded view of what military leaders should spend their time studying.

    A professor at the Joint Forces Staff College was relieved of duty in June for uttering the heresy that the United States is at war with Islam. The Obama administration contended the professor had to be relieved because what he was teaching was not U.S. policy. Because there is no disclaimer attached to the Small Wars piece, it is fair to ask, at least in Col. Benson’s case, whether his views reflect official policy regarding the use of U.S. military force against American citizens.

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    So the military is not gearing up for civil war against the people in 2016.

    Edgy le, bro.

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    Why are retired army colonel's who now teach at military universities even outlining such potential scenarios? I mean if it would never happen and all.

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    You really gone off the deep end...

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    You are so stupid.

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    Deep end lol

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    Why are retired army colonel's who now teach at military universities even outlining such potential scenarios? I mean if it would never happen and all.
    This ranks up there with your obsession over neonatal phalluses tbh.

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    or rather cir fetishists obsession with cutting infant's phalluses, eh?

    who's obsessed, the guy advocating leaving them alone, or the guys fixated on cutting them? i thought you were supposed to be some super smart radioactive SOB

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    or rather cir fetishists obsession with cutting infant's phalluses, eh?

    who's obsessed, the guy advocating leaving them alone, or the guys fixated on cutting them? i thought you were supposed to be some super smart radioactive SOB
    I'd go with the person who saw fit to share his personal story regarding the matter on a basketball internet forum.

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    i'd go with the guy actually cutting infants genitalia actually

    lol turning to bs tantric sex methods in an attempt to regain what's missing from your sex life, not even realizing the problem is staring you right in the face.

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    basketball internet forum.
    lol almost forgot about this little gem

    i posted it in a political forum, brah



    i think you might need to research tantric posting methods

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    lol almost forgot about this little gem

    i posted it in a political forum, brah



    i think you might need to research tantric posting methods
    Last I checked, the Political Forum was a sub forum of Spurstalk. Is that no longer the case?

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    herp durp, posting physics nobody here cares about on the subforum of a basketball forum herp durp

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    i'd go with the guy actually cutting infants genitalia actually

    lol turning to bs tantric sex methods in an attempt to regain what's missing from your sex life, not even realizing the problem is staring you right in the face.
    Perhaps the military will put an end to the barbaric practice in 2016.

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    lol germany banning cir cision not being political enough for your tantric tastes but the Higgs Bosom is

    b-b-but it's a basketbawl forum

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    sciencetalk.com/tantric

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    herp durp, posting physics nobody here cares about on the subforum of a basketball forum herp durp
    One can't truly care about things they don't comprehend. You're in select company tbh.

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    lol germany banning cir cision not being political enough for your tantric tastes but the Higgs Bosom is

    b-b-but it's a basketbawl forum
    lol weak thread pretext

    lol devolving into a discussion about ones own crusade against trimming phalluses.

    lol Higgs vs foreskin comparison

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    lol weak thread pretext

    lol devolving into a discussion about ones own crusade against trimming phalluses.

    lol Higgs vs foreskin comparison
    tantric post

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    Why are retired army colonel's who now teach at military universities even outlining such potential scenarios? I mean if it would never happen and all.
    Thanks for pointing out that this has nothing to do with actual military practice or policy.

    Folks like this write scenarios for any possible conflict, external or internal. It's how they get published.

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    In your opinion, will I be allowed to continue this practice after 2016?

    Your thread has me worried.

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    my opinion is that by 2016 foregen will have successfully regenerated human foreskin and you won't have any further need for your compensation tactics

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    my opinion is that by 2016 foregen will have successfully regenerated human foreskin and you won't have any further need for your compensation tactics
    foregen

    When is the IPO?

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