from Covert Magazine
Will New Pentagon Chief Use Psyops to Save His Boss?
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - November 11, 2020
Christopher Miller, the new Acting Defense Secretary, while serving as a
Special Forces warrior in Afghanistan. [Source: pbs.twimg.com]
According to a profile in Eric Blehm's 2010 book, The Only Thing Worth Dying
For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought For a New Afghanistan, President Trump's
new Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller picked out passages from
British pro-imperialist writer Rudyard Kipling to motivate troops under his
command. In this way he masterminded the unconventional warfare campaign in
Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks before going on to head Special
Forces operations in Central Iraq during George W. Bush's troop surge in
2006-2007.
Christopher Miller cleaned up from his fighting days. [Source:
wikipedia.org]
In an interview last month, Miller told Seth G. Jones of the conservative
think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) that his
specialty was in unconventional warfare or "hearts and minds work," and
added that he also participated in direct action-where you're "kicking down
doors, you're taking people out of buildings, or killing them."
Miller's appointment to the Pentagon's top post comes at a time when the
victorious Biden campaign is beginning its transition to power.
Monday, after Trump's election defeat, he fired previous Defense Secretary
Mark Esper which triggered a wave of high-level departures in the Pentagon
and set off alarm that Trump was trying to install loyalists to carry out
his wishes during an already tense transition period.
One of the new appointees, Brigadier General Anthony Tata, who replaces
James Andersen as the Pentagon's Acting Under-Secretary of Defense for
Policy, was formerly a Fox News regular who called former President Barack
Obama a "terrorist leader" and Islam "the most oppressive violent religion I
know of."
Anthony Tata [Source: defense.gov]
Fears continue to swirl about what Tata, Miller and other newly installed
leaders might do as Trump fights the results of last week's election
including concerns that he might use troops to solve political problems or
enact psychological warfare operations of which Miller is an expert.
Born in Platteville, Wisconsin in 1965, Miller served as an Army War College
fellow to the CIA and was part of a special army unit that tracked and
hunted Osama bin Laden prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In a 2013 article in The Small Wars Journal, he advocated for shifting the
U.S. military focus to the Far-East, writing that "It is American dominance
in the world that allows Americans to enjoy what it is we love in our
society" and that "Americans will not happily accept a decline in our
standard of living so that others elsewhere can have more."
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought For a New
Afghanistan by Eric Blehm (2010).
Miller went to state that: "this no time for America to become complacent.
America worked and fought hard to obtain its place in the world and keeping
that place will require just as much work and fighting."
From 2014 to 2016, Miller's bio lists him as being employed by "various
defense contractors" and serving as an "intelligence and sensitive special
operations adviser" who provided "clandestine special operations and
intelligence expertise directly to the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence."
Michael Vickers, the CIA's chess playing strategist featured in the
Hollywood blockbuster film, Charlie Wilson's War. [Source: nytimes.com]
Until May 2015, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence was Michael
Vickers, a former CIA paramilitary officer who helped coordinate anti-Soviet
operations in Afghanistan during the 1980s-he was featured as a chess
playing CIA strategist in the Hollywood blockbuster film Charlie Wilson's
War-and a subversion campaign against the socialist Sandinista government in
Nicaragua. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low
Intensity Conflict from 2007-2011, Vickers championed the use of drones, and
helped run the operation to hunt and kill Osama bin laden.
At this time, any dirty tricks that Trump and Miller may be up to is a
matter of speculation-as with much of Miller's CV. (See below)
A possible clue though can be seen in Miller's role in shepherding the
completion of a White House counterterrorism strategy after his appointment
in August as director of the National Counterterrorism Center that expanded
the scope of threats facing the United States to include "Iran, Hezbollah
and domestic terrorism."
In May, following the protests over the police killing of George Floyd in
Minneapolis, President Trump had designated Anti-fascist action or Antifa, a
protest movement opposed to white supremacy and fascism, as a domestic
terrorist organization.
While it is unlikely that Trump would start a war with Iran or Hezbollah, he
could try and foment civil unrest here in the U.S. in an attempt to save his
presidency, and invoke counter-terrorism pretexts, including the
Insurrection Act, for cracking down on Antifa and other enemies-in a manner
that Miller and his colleagues perfected in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is a potential danger to which the public should be attuned.
