New Army Field Manual for "Civil Disturbance Operations"

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/05/mai05118.html

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Subject: New Army Field Manual for "Civil Disturbance Operations" (PDF)

A new U.S. Army field manual articulates military doctrine for confronting civil unrest abroad and at home.

In addition to covering civil unrest doctrine for OCONUS operations, addresses domestic unrest and the military role in providing assistance to civil authorities requesting it for civil disturbance operations.

See Field Manual (FM) 3-19.15, "Civil Disturbance Operations," 18 April 2005 (256 pages, 5.6 MB PDF file):

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-19-15.pdf

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[donsu]

1. kick because this flew off page 1 before I could even bookmark it

nt

[Neecy]

2. interesting

They must be preparing for the draft.

[ck4829]

3. Or for Martial Law.

[walldude]

5. I read somewhere that they are doing

psychological tests on soldiers to see if they would shoot American civilians.

[H2O Man]

9. Kent State? n/t

[tofubo]

13. today's the 35th aniversary of kent state

martial law starts tomorrow 05/05/05

[texanwitch]

16. This is what the Iraq is for, to get our troops ready for shooting

Americans.

I was in the military for 4 years, young and stupid.

We had training for crowd control, not all of us would have went along with it, but enough would.

There are enough Lynndie England types to cause major injuries and death, don't think it can't happen.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. The one would lead to the other. nt

[Bluebear]

4. All sorts of tactics about "dispersing crowds", military dog teams etc.

"Don't even THINK about disobeying our Leader!"

[Itsthetruth]

6. Must Read

Every anti-war and other progressive organization that plans on organizing mass protests needs to study this manual.

I'm making this a greatest.

[Bluebear]

10. Me too.

Highly important material that people should be aware of.

[H2O Man]

22. I am curious

how these tactics would be applied to a Gandhian-type of 100% peaceful demonstration? What is the measure called for if a non-violent group of people simply point out that the president is of the lowest moral character?

[rodeodance]

23. good question----I think even a peaceful domonstration would be seen-*

as a threat to our national secuity (and to the President himself)

Would be lovely to imagine though.

[H2O Man]

24. I actually believe

that the administration would find a peaceful demonstration far more threatening than a rowdy one. I think this administration fears the Bill of Rights.

[H2O Man]

7. Nominated.

This is an interesting and important thread.

[VOX]

12. Seconded. Agree that it's of extreme interest. n/t

[Karenina]

8. Was it Miami? World Trade Conference?

New toys? New "rules of engagement?" What is it um Ami mentality that screens out the fugly shadow of the jackboot cummin' down on dey pinhaids????? :shrug:

[brokensymmetry]

11. Peak Oil Prep?

I'm not kidding. With the Iraq adventure looking like a (ahem) miserable failure, and general decline in the various fields, I wonder if we might not be seeing an effort to control us when the peak hits?

[gordianot]

14. Maybe, but I hear the footpaths are still closed at Yellowstone.

(as of two weeks ago) The ground is hot enough to melt your sneakers in areas that never got hot.

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. Very, very scary. And FEMA apparently has martial law plans ready to go

Many sites about the FEMA/Martial Law situation on the web. For example:
http://www.oilempire.us/redalert.html

:scared:

[AuntiBush]

18. Yeah. I think they could do it and think nothing of it.

It's called years of brainwashing from Shoot-um-up video games to the conditioning of the military.

Imagine how many are right here, watching everything we write and pretending to be like-minded.

We need to remain calm, brave and steadfast. Never in my lifetime did I ever see it come to this. How can so many Americans be so blind, so willing to follow a "mere man..." and "idolize" him/them like their some sort of "God?"

[AuntiBush]

19. Added Note: Didn't that "Sneak & Peak" Patriot Act III go thru yesterday?

[LifeDuringWartime]

26. link? n/t

[rucky]

20. Is it facism yet? n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. Nominated and kick! n/t

[cap]

25. these techniques will be used within the US

read the first lines of the manual:

"Field Manual (FM) 3-19.15 addresses continental United States (CONUS) and outside continental United States (OCONUS) civil disturbance operations."

A lot of police officers are ex-military and a lot of tactics used by the NYPD during the Republican convention are those of "Urban Warfare".

A must read.

[cap]

27. just sent the link over to democracy for america...

will send a copy over to moveon.org