At the fourth Culture Summit of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in April 2010, Maj. Gen. David Hogg, head of the Adviser Forces in Afghanistan, proposed that the US military think of “culture as a weapon system.” The military, Hogg asserted, needs to learn the culture of the lands where it is deployed and use that knowledge to fight its enemies along with more conventional armaments. This conceptual and perhaps literal “weaponization of culture” continues a trend that began with the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Endorsed at the highest level by Gen. David Petraeus, head of Central Command, the Pentagon unit in charge of the greater Middle East, the idea of culture as a weapon grows out of the “‘gentler’ approach” to America’s post-September 11 wars adopted after the departure of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The .gov PFD of this summit has apparently been taken down.
http://prhome.defense.gov/RFM/READINESS/DLNSEO/NewsletterArchives/tabid/5523/FileId/17766/Default.aspx
Waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20140919025457/http://prhome.defense.gov/RFM/READINESS/DLNSEO/NewsletterArchives/tabid/5523/FileId/17766/Default.aspx
Anyways, this specific topic of "Weaponizing Culture" from this article was referring mostly to overseas conflicts such as Iraq & Afghanistan, but it doesn't take much imagination to see that it has been taken much further then that, and is being used on us back here at home. Western culture, over the years has become just as weaponized (if not more so) then the regions of the world that are seen as active conflict zones. Everything that can be used against us, is being used against us, and everything with a positive side to it that actually helps the people, is being co-opted and controlled to limit those positive aspects, and interchange them with as many negatives as possible. This spans across all aspects of our daily life, from government, to money, to food, to weather, to religion, to language, to education, to health, to tv/media, to ideas... hell even emergency preparation (drills) now go live like half the damn time... again something designed to help/serve us, is instead being used to hurt us... there is literally no aspect left untouched. If it doesn't exist and is needed, then they create it. If it does exist, then they try to control it. If it can't be controlled, they attempt to co-opt it. If it can't be co-opted, it is contained/limited. If it can't be contained/limited then it is destroyed... and if it is something that can't easily be destroyed (such as an idea), then it is simply demonized and targeted.
Look around you, your entire culture has been shaped into a weapon... and it is pointed at you from all angles.
Silent weapons, for quiet wars.
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