BS Alert!!!!
Another version of this was posted last night.
The paper is an academic and speculative discussion about the need to plan for “known unknowns” like 9/11 or Mumbai.
It’s not about corraling the masses and civil breakdown.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=890
Known Unknowns: Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defense Strategy Development
Authored by Mr. Nathan P. Freier.
Known Unknowns: Unconventional... Cover Image
* Added November 04, 2008
* Type: Monograph
* 51 Pages
* View the Abstract First
* Cost: Free
Whew... thanks for pee’ing on that fire before it go out of hand, angkor. Fellow FReepers, the War College is graduate school for officers. What we have here is a typical case of journalism out of context. If this topic concerns you - you would probably be mortified at some of the other topics of dissertation that has come out of the War College over the years. The very reason for the existence of the Strategic Studies Institute within the War College is to contemplate such issues.
“International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned Wednesday of economy-related riots and unrest in various global markets if the financial crisis is not addressed and lower-income households are hurt by credit constraints and rising unemployment.
U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., both said U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson brought up a worst-case scenario as he pushed for the Wall Street bailout in September. Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO, said that might even require a declaration of martial law, the two noted.”
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Then are Strauss-Kahn, Inhofe, Sherman, and Paulson in the War College, or associated with this paper?