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5. Bündnisse und Militärschlag
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01
/jsotf-gcc/
Eine bisher geheime Spezialeinheit des US-Militärs
operiert Spencer Ackerman zufolge bereits jetzt in der
Nähe zum Iran. "The primary, day-to-day mission of the
team, known as Joint Special Operations Task Force-Gulf
Cooperation Council, is to mentor military units belonging
to the U.S.' oil-rich Arab allies, who collectively are
known as the Gulf Cooperation Council. Those Arab states
consider Iran to be their primary foreign threat. The task
force provides 'highly trained personnel that excel in
uncertain environments,' Maj. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for
special-operations forces in the Mideast, tells Danger
Room, and 'seeks to confront irregular threats.' The U.S.
military has not previously acknowledged the existence of
the team, known as JSOTF-GCC for short." |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world
/africa/nato-accused-of-war-crimes-in-l
ibya-6291566.html
In einem neuen Bericht von Menschenrechtsorganisationen werden allen Beteiligten des Libyenkrieges Kriegsverbrechen vorgeworfen. Auch die NATO habe sich demnach möglicherweise schuldig gemacht. "Raji Sourani, the head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights who took part in the Libya mission, said: 'We are not making judgements - that is not the mission mandate. But we have reason to think that there were some war crimes perpetrated. (...) We are asking questions, especially about what happened in Sirte,' referring to Nato strikes in that city last September, when 47 civilians were killed. Eye-witnesses in the city told report investigators that civilians converged at the site of Nato strikes on two trucks, and were subsequently killed by a third missile. Whether or not this amounts to a war crime, the revelation, if proved, will serve as an embarrassment to the Alliance, which stressed its efforts to avoid civilian deaths."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1657
3516
Mark Urban mit einem Hintergrundbericht über neue Erkenntnisse zum geheimen Einsatz von britischen Spezialeinheiten im Libyenkrieg. "My investigations into that covert effort reveal a story of practically minded people trying to get on with the job, while all the time facing political and legal constraints imposed from London. In the end, though, British special forces were deployed on the ground in order to help the UK's allies - the Libyan revolutionaries often called the National Transitional Council or NTC. Those with a knowledge of the programme insist 'they did a tremendous job' and contributed to the final collapse of the Gaddafi regime."
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http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/0
1/18/how-to-re-open-the-strait-of-hormu
z-after-iran-shuts-it-down/
Das "Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments" hat eine Studie über mögliche Operationen des US-Militärs gegen iranische Einheiten in der Straße von Hormus veröffentlicht. "Authors Mark Gunzinger and Chris Dougherty, in what they label as 'an important caveat,' say 'there is no intent to imply that conflict between the United States and Iran is inevitable.' But then they helpfully go on to explain how the U.S. military might reverse Iranian action to shut down the Strait of Hormuz".
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http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/
137038/jamie-m-fly-and-gary-schmitt/the
-case-for-regime-change-in-iran
Die beiden Autoren Jamie M. Fly und Gary Schmitt fordern
einen amerikanischen Militärschlag gegen den Iran, um
einen Regimewechsel durchzusetzen. "Given the likely
fallout from even a limited military strike, the question
the United States should ask itself is, Why not take the
next step? After all, Iran's nuclear program is a symptom
of a larger illness - the revolutionary fundamentalist
regime in Tehran. (...) It would not even need to be a ground
invasion aimed specifically at toppling the government. The
United States would basically need to expand its list of
targets beyond the nuclear program to key command and
control elements of the Republican Guard and the
intelligence ministry, and facilities associated with other
key government officials. The goal would be to compromise
severely the government's ability to control the Iranian
population. This would require an extended campaign, but
since even a limited strike would take days and Iran would
strike back, it would be far better to design a military
operation that has a greater chance of producing a
satisfactory outcome." |
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http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/20
12/01/17/no_military_options_in_syria
Marc Lynch widerspricht Steven Cook, dem zufolge eine Militärintervention in Syrien nicht mehr völlig ausgeschlossen werden sollte. Die moralische Empörung über das Assad-Regime sei verständlich, ein militärisches Eingreifen hätte allerdings kaum Aussichten auf Erfolg. "Syria is not Libya, and has few of the unique conditions which made that intervention appropriate. The moral outrage at the depradations of Assad's forces, as well as the fevered hopes of those hoping to change the region's strategic equation by bringing down Iran's main Arab ally are not enough, any more than hope is a plan. Military intervention in Syria has little prospect of success, a high risk of disastrous failure, and a near- certainty of escalation which should make the experience of Iraq weigh extremely heavily on anyone contemplating such an intervention."
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01
/afghan-air-war/
Die Intensität des ISAF-Luftkrieges in Afghanistan sei auf ein Dreijahrestief gesunken, berichtet Noah Shachtman. "In December, NATO planes flew 133 missions in which they fired off their weapons. That's the lowest monthly total in three years, and more than a 50% drop from last December's tally. And the air war shows no sign of picking up in 2012. In the first week of the year, the coalition launched just 18 strike sorties. (...) In contrast, surveillance missions have quadrupled in the last two years; NATO is now flying about 85 spy sorties every day over Afghanistan. Airdrops of food, water, ammunition, fuel and other supplies are up 25 percent, to nearly 76 million pounds - even as the number of bomb drops comes down."
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http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175489/
tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_drone_disaster
s_/
Nick Turse schreibt, dass die weltweite Drohnenkriegsführung des Pentagons von zahlreichen Abstürzen begleitet werde. Seit 2000 seien offiziellen Statistiken zufolge mehr als 70 Drohnen beschädigt oder zerstört worden. "The Air Force's accident reports are replete with evidence of the flaws inherent in drone technology, and there can be little doubt that, in the future, ever more will come to light. A decade's worth of futility suggests that drone warfare itself may already be crashing and burning, yet it seems destined that the skies will fill with drones and that the future will bring more of the same."
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01
/drone-war-return/
Der amerikanische Drohnenkrieg gegen die Taliban in Pakistan gehe trotz des angespannten Verhältnisses beider Länder nach einer kurzen Pause weiter, berichtet Spencer Ackerman. "The pause is evidently over. And that suggests little will actually stop the drone war. 2011 was the worst year for the U.S.-Pakistan relationship since 9/11. (...) And all that did was make the drone war take a knee. The drones now fly from Afghan bases; Pakistan notably did not deny the U.S. overflight rights after the helicopter incident. That's still an option for the Pakistanis, theoretically. But absent some really big disaster - a botched U.S. raid inside Pakistan, maybe? - it's hard to see what else the U.S. could do to prompt the Pakistanis to take more drastic steps."
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2
012/01/10/the_syrian_invasion
Michael Peck überlegt, ob ein Landkrieg der NATO in Syrien ähnlich ausgehen würde wie die Irak-Invasion der USA. In der Militärsimulation "Combat Mission: Shock Force" hat Peck zu diesem Zweck eine Panzeroffensive durchgespielt, die von der Bundeswehr angeführt würde. "The question is what price can the doomed dictator extract, and it is there that a game like Shock Force is illuminating. If the Syrian military disintegrates, or if it is only effective when shooting unarmed civilians, then a NATO intervention would be relatively - though not totally - bloodless. But if an Alawite-dominated Syrian army, with its back to the wall and fearing retribution by the Sunni majority, fights to the last, then they have enough advanced weapons and defensible terrain to inflict politically damaging losses. Maybe the Assad regime would prove to be a paper tiger. But don't count on a blitzkrieg on the road to Damascus."
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http://www.clairefelicie.com/here-are-t
he-young-men
Claire Felicie hat niederländische Soldaten vor, während
und nach deren Einsatz in Afghanistan fotografiert. "These
marines are young boys, full of excitement and expectations
who are being sent to a war zone. There they are confronted
with pain, sadness and death. Will something appear on
their faces of these experiences? To find an answer to this
question Claire Felicie photographed the marines of the
13th infantry company of the Royal Netherlands Marine
Corps, before, during and after their deployment in
Uruzgan." |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchan
nels/2012/0102/The-Iraq-war-death-toll-
At-least-162-000-and-counting
Einem neuen Bericht der Organisation "Iraq Body Count"
zufolge hat die Gewalt im Irak seit der US-Invasion
mindestens 162.000 Opfer gefordert. Dan Murphy schreibt,
dass die tatsächliche Zahl mit einiger Sicherheit höher
liege. "The group's methodology almost guarantees an under-
count of civilian deaths for the arc of the war, since it
records only deaths reported in the press and in the US
military logs leaked last year by Wikileaks. But as a
measure of trends in violence, their work has provided a
useful snapshot of the toll in Iraq since the war began.
This year's report both underscores the good news from Iraq
- that violence has collapsed from its 2006-2007 peak -
while also raising questions about persistent, albiet low-
levels in violence, that are now a kind of background
radiation to the country's political scene." |
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http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/tech
nik/0,1518,806522,00.html
Das US-Militär will den Einsatz von Drohnen in Afghanistan
ausweiten und dabei Markus Becker zufolge auch
hochauflösende Kameras, mit denen sich großflächige
Gebiete überwachen lassen, einsetzen. "Der Name des
Systems erinnert nicht umsonst an den Riesen Argos aus der
griechischen Mythologie, der auch Panoptes ('Allesseher')
genannt wurde und laut der Sage mit seinen 100 Augen am
ganzen Körper in alle Richtungen zugleich sehen konnte.
'Argus-IS' (kurz für Autonomous Real-Time Ground
Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System) soll dem Personal
am Boden ermöglichen, immerhin bis zu 65 Objekte oder
Personen gleichzeitig im Blick zu behalten - und das in
einem Umkreis von bis zu sieben Kilometern. 'Wenn mehrere
Personen zur gleichen Zeit ein Haus verlassen, muss man
sich nicht mehr entscheiden, ob man Auto Nummer eins, zwei
oder drei folgt', sagte Programm-Manager Brian Leninger der
britischen BBC." |
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10. Februar 2012
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