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Judi Lynn

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Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:33 AM Mar 2016

Brazil, like Russia, Under Attack by Hybrid War

Brazil, like Russia, Under Attack by Hybrid War

March 30, 2016
by Pepe Escobar

Color revolutions would never be enough; Exceptionalistan is always on the lookout for major strategic upgrades capable of ensuring perpetual Empire of Chaos hegemony.

The ideological matrix and the modus operandi of color revolutions by now are a matter of public domain. Not so much the concept of Unconventional War (UW).

UW was spelled out by the 2010 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare manual. Here’s the money quote:


“The intent of US (Unconventional Warfare) UW efforts is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerabilities by developing and sustaining resistance forces to accomplish US strategic objectives… For the foreseeable future, US forces will predominantly engage in irregular warfare (IW) operations.”

“Hostile” powers are meant not only in a military sense; any state that dares to defy any significant plank of the Washington-centric world “order” – from Sudan to Argentina – may be branded “hostile”.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/30/brazil-like-russia-under-attack-by-hybrid-war/
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