Will it be a civilian security force, equally as well trained and well funded as our military?
Standing Army ?
The White House has noted the unrest and that something is brewing.
Here is a link to a pdf file of the entire report.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG819.pdf
I think the administration is already doing this. I recall hearing about something like this a few months back.
he wanted to fundamentally change America....
INTERPOL has free reign
National Council of Governors
Stability Police Force
all just a part of the plan
What happened to the FBI...?
If we use them to patrol the border I’d be fine with it, but somehow I don’t see the “new progressives” using it for that. It’ll be turned on native born citizens.
This report was released May 4, 2009.
This is a great example of how some enterprising person stumbles across some old document and posts it, and next thing you know, dozens of bloggers are all reproducing it like it’s breaking news or something.
This is primarily for overseas use and fills a significant gap in our capability for dealing with instability in key countries. Many other countries have a national police force. This is “new” only for the US.
Paranoid fantasies notwithstanding, I think this concept is on the right track.
“Stability operations have become an inescapable reality of U.S. foreign policy. Establishing security with soldiers and police is critical because it is difficult to achieve other objectivessuch as rebuilding political and economic systemswithout it.”
I wonder why it is we think we need to rebuild the nations we liberate/destroy. Because it worked, more or less, in Japan and West Germany? Well, that was good for Japan and West Germany. And it was good for us to have allies against the Soviets. But how’s it going to help, at long last, to have Free Iraq as an ally? As if wouldn’t have hated Iran without us. How much of a help, really, has Pakistan been? Or Saudi Arabia?
I don’t know. What I do know is there’s an alternative. Hit fast, hit hard, and get out. Don’t pinge all your hopes on making Afghanistan a respectable nation. Let the Taliban have it. When (not if, but when) camps pop up again, go hit them again. Play to our strength, which is our ability to smash stuff up.
I think its time We the People stopped paying Rand to design our shackles....