Lt. Colonel (ret) Military Historian Dr. John Grenier: “In the frontier wars between 1607 and 1814, Americans forged two elements—unlimited war and irregular war—into their first way of war…. U.S. people are taught that their military culture does not approve of or encourage targeting and killing civilians and know little or nothing about the nearly three centuries of warfare—before and after the founding of the U.S.—that reduced the Indigenous peoples of the continent to a few reservations by burning their towns and fields and killing civilians, driving the refugees out—step by step—across the continent…. [V]iolence directed systematically against non-combatants through irregular means, from the start, has been a central part of Americans’ way of war.” The First Way of War, American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814 (isbn.nu, 2008, pp. 10, 223-24)
Corporate Historian Richard Grossman: “As the 19th Century began, constitutions, laws and customs in the new United States denied the overwhelming majority of humans standing and equality before the law, along with authority to vote. As the 19th Century ended, legislative laws, judge-made laws, propaganda, armed might and persistent violence by the corporate class had transformed the United States from a minority-ruled Slave Nation into a minority-ruled Corporate Nation. This despite valiant mass resistance and magnificent people’s struggles. The emerging Corporate State – like the previous Slave State – was impressively constitutionalized.” An Act To Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated Business Entities (2011)
Phoenix was the silver lining in the Vietnam debacle, fulfilling its destiny in the wake of 9/11 to become the template for policing the empire and fighting its eternal War on Terror
1993 investigation of a level of institutional racism that directed multi-generational decision-making by authorities in U.S. Army Intelligence
