1. Environment, 1.1. Arctic, 2. Health, 3. Operations in Hot Zones, 3.1. Venezuela, 3.2. Congo, 3.3. Urban, 3.4. Syria, 4. BioChem, 5. Civil Defense. Previous Week 190505-Polemic.
Other topics: Ocean Access, FEMA, Napoleon, Volcanoes, Waterloo, Icebreakers, No Swimming, Going Viral, Polio, Conflict Minerals
-1. Environment: Climate Change Threatens to Block Marines’ Access to the Sea. Napoleon’s Defeat at Waterloo Caused in Part by Indonesian Volcanic Eruption, 190512-2.
-1.1. Admiral: The US Is ‘Operating Blind’ In the Arctic. This became even more difficult with Mike Pompeo Claims Rapidly Melting Arctic Sea Ice Could Actually Be a Good Thing, as it Will Create New Opportunities for Trade [Video], Climate Change Missing as Us Defends Arctic Policy, US Climate Sceptics Send Shivers Through Arctic Cooperation, U.S. Sinks Arctic Accord Due to Climate Change Differences: Diplomats, Three Take Aways from the Climate Change Investing Roundtable, \fs24ulUS Refused to Sign Arctic Agreement over Climate Change Wording, Pompeo Cancels Trip to Greenland for Meetings on Iran, North Korea, he was to see melting glaciers at the forefront of climate change. Americans Have Never Been Known to Run Away from a Battle. Until Climate Change, obviously a historically inaccurate and biased opinion, as well as ignoring that American’s and US Agencies are dealing with environmental problems. It is not even accurate that the current US administration backs off from fights, albeit not well chosen fights or crating conflicts that could have been resolved without damaging bellicosity.
-A. Behold America's New And Desperately Needed Heavy Icebreaker.
-B. New Mexico Wants Lake on Air Force Base Closed -2-, because of the concentration of hazardous chemicals at the site poses a risk to public health and the environment.
-2. Health: New Retro Style Army Greens to Hit the Streets this Year in Phased Rollout. I like the appearance of this new/old uniform, but if it is as heavy as the WWII material it maybe only suitable to wear in polar vortexes and set to low air conditioned offices. Pentagon Suspends Efforts to Recover Troops' Remains as North Korea Talks Stall. These Ailing Veterans Didn’t Have Caregivers at Home. So They Were Taken in by Foster Families.
-3. Operations in Hot Zones:
-3.1. Venezuela biocalamity has slipped from the media attention again in favor of the greater drama of Russia vs US and the suppression of the opposition. Surveillance of disease, public health and environment was pretty much ended, as well as increased numbers of the vulnerable population of ∩ homeless -2-, More People Displaced Inside Their Own Countries than Ever Before. Any military operation, humanitarian aid to invasion, will need good intelligence on the health and environmental situation, and prepare accordingly to avoid making a very adverse situation far worse. Venezuela’s Soaring Murder Rate Has Plunged the Nation into a Public Health Crisis. <ADDED 190512-181209-4>. Venezuela
-3.2. In the DRC violence propagation still outstrips Ebola. Clarifications on the Author of the Murder of Two Taximen Killed in Les Copains Cemetery. Violent Clashes Between Soldiers and Rebels in Beni. Lack of Funding: The Ebola Response in the DRC May Be Compromised. Likely that this lack of funding is due to both the remoteness of the outbreak (that is little fear mongering to motivate effort, and the vicious cycle of the security situation that makes its seem like a poor investment, increasing Ebola, making the security situation worse. On a Knife Edge: Ebola Outbreak Threatens to Escalate as Violence Rises. Clashes in Ebola Affected Congo City Kill at Least Nine, City in Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Attacked by Militia; 8 Dead, Rebel Attack in Butembo: 10 Dead Including Women and a Police Officer, More on the Butembo Attacks. Amid Fear and Guns, Polio Finds a Refuge. Ebola Response Resumes in Beni, but Protests Spread to Butembo. Ebola Outbreak Hits 1,600 Cases amid Armed Clashes. | WHO Warns Ebola Could Spread Elsewhere If Attacks Don't Stop, and if military force is provided to give security then that could easily escalated to air strikes, which will escalate to armed conflict throughout Africa, Worries Rise over Risk of Ebola Spread Beyond DRC Hot Zones. Threats by Text, a Mob Outside the Door: What Health Workers Face in the Ebola Zone. Four Barriers to Eradicating Ebola in Butembo: Insecurity, Misinformation, Resistance and Impunity. Beni: Mai Mai Attack Police Station in Kantine-Loya. Saturday Thoughts on Ebola as Failed Narrative.
-A. Mineral Traders in Rwanda Helping Fund Congo Rebels - U.N. Panel, which contradicts last weeks >8 stub, Cliches Can Kill in Congo, and agrees with <ADDED 190421>4B. How Conflict Minerals Funded a War That Killed Millions, and Why Tech Giants Are Finally Cleaning up Their Act 2014, Conflict Minerals in Eastern Congo 2015, Progress and Challenges on Conflict Minerals with multiple citations, The Quest for Conflict Free Mining in Congo$, Overview of Conflict Minerals in the Congo. | Japan to Import Ebola Virus for Improving Test Accuracy. #Document Struggling with Scale: Ebola’s Lessons for the Next Pandemic, Operationalizing the US government response, Balancing the politics and the science of travel restrictions, Defining the role of a reluctant military, Coordinating complex international partnerships -6↑ <ADDED 190512-180513-1.1>.
-3.3. WOTR recently posted Urban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable. Imagine the operational hotzone is also an urban area with a high density population, unsanitary conditions, broken public health system, broken sewer and water systems, food shortages. These conditions actually exist in Venezuela, DRC, Yemen and Syria.
-3.4. Three More Medical Facilities Bombed in Syria Today; 16 Total in Two Weeks.
-4. BioChem: Part of the larger US bioweapons conspiracy theories Aerosolized Thought Control Vaccine Tested on Humans 2015. <ADDED 190512-190505-8>. Misinformation Doesn’t Have to Be Altered to Go Viral. What the Future May Hold for the Strategic National Stockpile for Biodefense.
-A. The “Third Revolution in Warfare” Is Weapons That Can Decide to Kill on Their Own. Autonomous Weapons: an Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers. Combined with networked autonomous weapons that are microscopic and with biochem capabilities that can be spread and delayed, truly surgical that don’t just target people but strategic resources (for example microbes that eat gasoline and oil, plastics, wood, food, fabric). Include combining weapons of mass distraction with disinformation operations and war will be completely unrecognizable. Autonomous Weapons and the New Laws of War.
-5. How FEMA Could Lose America’s Next Great War. The US lacks a comprehensive strategy and supporting programs to support and defend the population of the United States during times of war and to mobilize, sustain and expand its defense industrial base while under attack from a peer or near peer adversary. These legacy programs were disbanded and broken up over 25 years ago, and without a reinvestment in these activities, America risks losing its next great war. Developing a framework based around Civil Defense, the mobilization and sustainment of the nation’s manpower and defense industrial base, protecting and sustaining its morale and political institutions, and support to the DOD efforts to deploy forces overseas while contested domestically by its adversaries, may provide a way to shape future preparedness efforts and a taxonomy to organize them. Learning from H.I.M. (Harvey, Irma, Maria): Preliminary Impressions for Supply Chain Resilience.
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What happen if one can’t get to a war or see it, much less operate. A new solution for Veterans health needs is Foster Families. In the DRC violence propagation still exceeds Ebola, but also helps Ebola spread, or maybe not the violence but the mineral wealth. To make hotzones more interesting some are in urban areas. In the future there may be use of autonomous delivery systems that can decide the target, where, when, the agent to use, without pesky human flaws. Has there been consideration that war is a form of disaster and are disaster agencies prepared.
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