[net-gold] Secrecy News -- 08/18/10

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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:07:36 -0400
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
To: saftergood@xxxxxxx
Subject: Secrecy News -- 08/18/10

SECRECY NEWS

from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2010, Issue No. 66
August 18, 2010

Secrecy News Blog:

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

**      SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENT IN PAKISTAN (CRS)

**      ARMY DOCTRINE FROM ARMS CONTROL TO MARCHING BANDS

SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENT IN PAKISTAN (CRS)

Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which has displaced millions of persons
over the last several weeks, submerged huge portions of the country, and
crippled much of the nation's infrastructure, is first and foremost a
humanitarian crisis that requires an urgent international response.  But it
also may have national, regional and global security implications.

"Environmental stresses, when combined with the other socio-economic and
political stresses on Pakistan, have the potential to further weaken an
already weak Pakistani state," the Congressional Research Service observed
in a new report this month.  "Such a scenario would make it more difficult
to achieve the U.S. goal of neutralizing anti-Western terrorists in
Pakistan.  Some analysts argue that disagreements over water could also
exacerbate tensions between India and Pakistan."

The new CRS report "examines the potentially destabilizing effect that, when
combined with Pakistan's demographic trends and limited economic
development, water scarcity, limited arable land, and food security may have
on an already radicalized internal and destabilized international
political-security environment."

The CRS report does not come out and say so, but it points clearly to the
conclusion that a U.S. foreign policy that gave greater emphasis to relief
and reconstruction would have much to recommend it, even (or especially)
from a national security point of view.  See "Security and the Environment
in Pakistan," August 3, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41358.pdf

As is often pointed out, Congress does not permit CRS to make its
publications directly available to the general public.

ARMY DOCTRINE FROM ARMS CONTROL TO MARCHING BANDS

The U.S. Army has issued several new doctrinal or regulatory publications
that may be of interest beyond their intended audience.

A new Army regulation "provides a broad overview of [arms control] treaties
and agreements with which the U.S. Army must implement and comply." See
"Army Arms Control Implementation Policy," Army Regulation 525-92, 2 August
2010:

        http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar525-92.pdf

A newly updated Field Manual provides guidance on "site exploitation."  That
term refers to "systematically searching for and collecting information,
material, and persons from a designated location and analyzing them to
answer information requirements, facilitate subsequent operations, or
support criminal prosecution... A site, in general, is a location that
potentially contains valuable information.  Site exploitation operations
doctrine describes a systematic and comprehensive approach to obtaining
information of value from a site for exploitation."  See "Site Exploitation
Operations," Army Field Manual 3-90.15, 8 July 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-90-15.pdf

Army bands, known to some as "music performance teams (MPTs)," are the
subject of another newly updated Field Manual.  "Bands provide music for
ceremonial and morale support within full spectrum operations to sustain
warriors and to inspire leaders... Army bands of the 21st century are
organized, trained, and equipped to conduct concurrent operations in
supporting multiple objectives with targeted musical styles."  See "U.S.
Army Bands," Field Manual 12-50, 7 July 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm12-50.pdf

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