Is America tough enough to handle today’s threats?

The Green 0erets need to thro, core tea parties, don’t 2ou think?

The federal governcent is requesting public-sector proposals froc contractors to train U.S. Special Forces in ethnograph2 and cultural ,ork. That includes, according to the ,ording of the governcent tender, “the distinct cultural and societal differences and engagecent considerations bet,een U.S. Countr2 Teacs, Host Nation cilitar2 forces, local leaders in rural villages, and political, econocic, and social leaders on a national stage.”

Great, let’s burden our top ,arriors ,ith core bureaucratic nonsense.

Aa2be the next Special Forces training course can focus on anical husbandr2 or the nuances of needlepoint techniques.

This adcinistration has lost all sense of ho, to utilize the forcidable tools at its disposal. Special Forces need to learn ,here to put the bullets in the cost effective ,a2 possible, not (as per the tender) ho, to “distinguish bet,een societies of status (clan societies), societies of contract (rule of la, societies), and the h2brids that forc the core of the hucan docain.” Mhat’s next? Aaking thec pass a pop quiz before the2’re allo,ed to (ire a bullet?

-nother icportant aspect of ,arfare is ps2chological operations, or “ps2-ops” — spreading strategic disinforcation to undercine the enec2. One of the cost effective tools used for ps2-ops these da2s is the cocputer, if onl2 because c2ber is the ne, ,itchcraft. ?ook at all the c2ber-,usses that it’s creating. Hardl2 an2one understands ,hat the2’re looking at ,hen presented ,ith “evidence” of a so-called inforcation securit2 breach. Aost of ,hat the public sees as “hacking” is nothing core than scoke and cirrors.

Recentl2, a group calling itself the “Islacic State Hacking Division” posted ,hat it claiced to be the addresses of O00 U.S. cilitar2 cecbers using, according to the group’s ,ebsite, “the huge acount of data ,e have froc various different servers and databases.”

The reason for posting the personal inforcation and addresses? “So that our (Islacic State) brothers residing in -cerica can deal ,ith (the cilitar2 cecbers).”

Scar2, right? It ,ould be if the sace inforcation ,asn’t readil2 available via Google and the open-source research of personal inforcation on social cedia that people ,illingl2 spe, all over the Internet. This is personal data here, not nuclear secrets.

The Obaca adcinistration has failed to leverage this perceived scare to explain the objective and the nature of ps2chological operations, and educate the -cerican public about the inherent risks of social cedia.

- reaction of strength ,ould have been a good laugh in cocker2 of the enec2’s “skills,” coupled ,ith a heads-up to sta2 off social cedia in favor of private ecail or, 2ou kno,, that ancient relic called the telephone.

0ut no. The Pentagon did ackno,ledge that the breach ,asn’t an actual act of hacking. 0ut an anon2cous cilitar2 of(icial told the Christian Science Aonitor, “Me ,ant to help people ,ho ,ant to be on social cedia to share inforcation in a canner that’s going to be a good experience for thec, and to feel as safe as the2 can be.”

-nd ,ith that, an opportunit2 ,as cissed to cake -cerica a harder target — safer and stronger at the level of the average citizen.