[…] administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a […]
[…] a natural order – or at least, should be made so. Hence, as we have also discussed, the efforts of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney at the Pentagon to establish the pre-emptive principle as a part of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case […]
[…] was helping the USA in its war with the Soviets in Afghanistan, and (b) US arms corporations were making money selling weapons systems and planes to the Pentagon which were being passed on to the Pakistan military as part of the price of co-operation in ‘the war on terror’. In short: Pakistan acquired the […]
[…] Sir Michael is among a number of senior British commanders who are said to question Britain’s backing for a US invasion of Iraq, and are sceptical of Pentagon claims about Saddam Hussein’s links with the al-Qa’ida terror organisation and his stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 […]
[…] day after the article was printed Pravda published a long article on the Generals’ revolt in which it said that the mutiny was encouraged by NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA. (18) The rumours on April 22nd were launched cautiously by “a minor official at the Elysee Palace itself”, according to Crosby Noyes in […]
[…] at least three others missed. I find it difficult to believe that any of the powerful elements in the US state apparatus – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, for example – would have felt it necessary to ambush Kennedy if they just wanted to get rid of him, or change some of his policies. […]
[…] careers for that to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I have read the conflict between JFK and those bits of the state, the Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is […]
[…] author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was a major piece of whistle-blowing as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] updated IRD, and ‘public diplomacy’ is a 1980s euphemism for disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan […]
