Day: August 15, 2017

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

NSC staffer Rich Higgins wrote the memo below. When he read it,
National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster fired him. McMaster should be
questioned about this. Did he think he memo was false? Is he part of
those trying to subvert Trump’s pro-American agenda? Certainly his many
statements denying the Islamic character of Islamic terrorism would
suggest so. McMaster must be fired if Trump is going to have any chance
of pursuing his agenda.

POTUS & POLITICAL WARFARE
May 2017
BACKGROUND. The Trump administration is suffering
under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then
de legitimize and ultimately remove the President. Possibly confusing
these attacks with an elevated interplay of otherwise normal D.C.
partisan infighting and adversarial media relations, the White House
response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset that
it is intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously
inadequate to the threat. If action is not taken to re-scope and respond
to these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks
implosion and subsequent early departure from the White House.
This is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an
unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct targeting of a
seated president through manipulation of the news cycle. It must be
recognized on its own terms so that immediate action can be taken. At
its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as the
non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political
warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes. The campaigns
operate through narratives.
Because the hard left is aligned with lslamist organizations at local
(ANTI FA working with Muslim Brotherhood doing business as MSA and
CAIR), national (ACLU and BLM working with CAIR and MPAC) and
international levels (OIC working with OSCE and the UN), recognition
must given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate at the
narrative level as well. In candidate Trump, the opposition saw a threat
to the “politically correct” enforcement narratives they’ve
meticulously laid in over the past few decades.
In President Trump, they see a latent threat to continue that effort
to ruinous effect and their retaliatory response reflects this fear.
INTRODUCTION.
Responding to relentless personal assaults on his character, candidate Trump identified the players and the strategy:

• “The establishment and their media enablers will
control over this nation through means that are very well known. Anyone
who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe,
and morally deformed.” – President Trump, Oct 2016

Culturally conditioned to limit responses to such attacks as yet
another round in the on-going drone from diversity and multicultural
malcontents, these broadsides are discounted as political correctness
run amuck. However, political correctness is a weapon against reason and
critical thinking. This weapon functions as the enforcement mechanism
of diversity narratives that seek to implement cultural Marxism.
Candidate Trump’s rhetoric in the campaign not only cut through the
Marxist narrative, he did so in ways that were viscerally comprehensible
to a voting bloc that then made candidate Trump the president; making
that bloc self-aware in the process. President Trump is either the
candidate he ran as, or he is nothing.
Recognizing in candidate Trump an existential threat to cultural
Marxist memes that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative, those
that benefit recognize the threat he poses and seek his destruction. For
this cabal, Trump must be destroyed. Far from politics as usual, this
is a political warfare effort that seeks the destruction of a sitting
president. Since Trump took office, the situation has intensified to
crisis level proportions. For those engaged in the effort, especially
those from within the “deep state” or permanent government apparatus,
this raises clear Title 18 (legal) concerns.
DISCUSSION.
The Opposition. While opposition to President Trump
manifests itself through political warfare memes centered on cultural
Marxist narratives, this hardly means that opposition is limited to
Marxists as conventionally understood. Having become the dominant
cultural meme, some benefit from it while others are captured by it;
including “deep state” actors, globalists, bankers, lslamists, and
establishment Republicans. Through the campaign, candidate Trump tapped
into a deep vein of concern among many citizens that America is at risk
and is slipping away. Globalists and lslamists recognize that for their
visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and
political identity, must be destroyed.
Atomization of society must also occur at the individual level; with
attacks directed against all levels of group and personal identity.
Hence the sexism, racism and xenophobia memes. As a Judea-Christian
culture, forced inclusion of post-modern notions of tolerance is
designed to induce nihilistic contradictions that reduce all thought,
all faith, all loyalties to meaninglessness. Group rights based on sex
or ethnicity are a direct assault on the very idea of individual human
rights and natural law around which the Constitution was framed.
“Transgender acceptance” memes attack at the most basic level by denying
a person the right to declare the biological fact of one’s sex. When a
population has 2 + 2 = 5 imposed on it, there are many that benefit:
• Mainstream Media – The principle mechanism for implementing narratives.
• The Academy – Academia has served as a principle
counter-state node for some time and remains a key conduit for creating
future adherents to cultural Marxist narratives and their derivative
worldview.
• The Deep State – The successful outcome of
cultural Marxism is a bureaucratic state beholden to no one, certainly
not the American people. With no rule of law considerations outside
those that further deep state power, the deep state truly becomes, as
Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.
• Global Corporatists & Bankers – Exploitation of populations, unfettered by national protections and notions of personal morality and piety.
• Democratic Leadership – The democratic leadership
has been a counter-state enabler that executes, sustains, and protects
cultural Marxist programs of action and facilitates the relentless
expansion of the deep state.
• Republican Leadership – More afraid of being
accused of being called a racist, sexist, homophobe or lslamophobe than
of failing to enforce their oaths to “support and defend the
Constitution,” the Republican Establishment accepts and enforces
cultural Marxist memes within its own sphere of operations. In doing so,
knowingly or not, it becomes an agent of that. These “conservatives”
become increasingly indistinguishable from their democratic counterparts
save that they misrepresent themselves to their constituents. Lacking
the discernment to recognize their situation, they will work with
globalists, corporatists, and the international financial interests and
will likewise service the deep state. These establishment Republicans
are the hard left’s designated defeat mechanism in the destruction of
the old regime as well as the American ideal. [1] Because candidate
Trump publicly exposed them for their duplicitous activities, they are
at risk as long as Trump can turn on them and are, therefore, bitter
foes. Candidate Trump’s success remains an ongoing existential threat to
establishment Republicans.
• lslamists – Islamists ally with cultural Marxist
because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the hard
left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its
benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Isla
mists deploy these narrative to strategically blind and then control US
decision makers. This is by design and purposeful. “By their own
hands!” has been the declared strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood since
1991. This strategy seeks to divide American society against itself with
the forced imposition of Islamist objectives on one half of American
society by the other half. Once a society has been effectively atomized,
the population will have lost its faith in the old order, detest those
who reduced it, and divide along the lines of narrative adherence. This
is the intended outcome of hostile information cum political warfare
campaigns and today we see their effects on American society.

Complicating the current
situation, many close to the president have pushed him off his message
when he was candidate Trump thus alienating him from his base thereby
isolating him in the process. When President Trump is not candidate
Trump, he becomes dangerously exposed. While the base that elected
candidate Trump identified with his vision, they are only Trump’s
insofar as he holds to the vision that made him president.

Political Warfare Attacks – A Primer. As used here, “political warfare” does not concern activities associated with the American political process but rather exclusively
refers to political warfare as understood by the Maoist Insurgency
model. [2] Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist
insurgency. Maoist methodologies employ synchronized violent and
non-violent actions that focus on mobilization of individuals and groups
to action. This approach envisions the direct use of non-violent
operational arts and tactics as elements of combat power. In Maoist
insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing
state power. Functioning as a hostile competing state acting within an
existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare
operates as one of the activities of the “counter-state” and is
primarily focused on the resourcing and mobilization of the counter
state or the exhaustion and demobilization of the targeted political
movement. Political warfare methods can be implemented at strategic,
operational, or tactical levels of operation.
Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns
designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent
lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They principally operate
through narratives. Because the left is aligned with lslamist
organizations at local, national and international levels, recognition
should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through
coordinated synchronized interactive narratives.
Cultural Marxism – A Primer. While the attacks on
President Trump arise out of political warfare considerations based on
non-kinetic lines of effort (as discussed below), they operate in a
battle-space prepared, informed and conditioned by cultural Marxist
drivers. In practical terms, the political warfare assault on President
Trump cannot be separated from the cultural Marxist narratives that
drive them. From an operational preparation of the environment
perspective, President Trump is operating in a battle-space that
reflects the left’s vision.
As used in this discussion, cultural Marxism relates to programs and
activities that arise out of Gramsci Marxism, Fabian Socialism and most
directly from the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt strategy deconstructs
societies through attacks on culture by imposing a dialectic that forces
unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of critical theory. The
result is induced nihilism, a belief in everything that is actually the
belief in nothing.
That post-modern (diversity/multiculturalism) narratives seeks to
implement cultural Marxist objectives can be demonstrated by reference
to founding Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse’s repurposing of
the term tolerance. In a 1965 paper,
Marcuse defined tolerance as intolerance; said it can be implemented
through undemocratic means to stop chauvinism (xenophobia), racism,
discrimination; and should be extended to the left while denied to the
right:

• “The realization of the objective of tolerance would
call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions,
and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions
which are outlawed or suppressed.”
• “Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own
subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people
(i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should
not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they
are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening
may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the
withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and
movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism,
discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the
extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.” (8-9)
• “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against
movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. As
to the scope of this tolerance and intolerance: … it would extend to the
stage of action as well as of discussion and propaganda, of deed as
well as of word.” (12)

It is through such post-modern constructs that interoperable
narratives are established among various left-wing groups as well as
between them and Isla mist groups at all levels. For example, from the
2001 Conference of Foreign Ministers at Bamako, Mali, the Organization
of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared its commitment to fight racism and
xenophobia and then declared lslamophobia a “contemporary form of
racism”:

• In this context, the World Conference urges all states …
take all necessary measures to combat hatred, discrimination,
intolerance and acts of violence, intimidation and coercion motivated by
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
particularly against Islam
• Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
which display an increasing trend, in their most subtle and contemporary
forms, constitute a violation of human rights. 3. Contemporary forms of
racism are based on discrimination and disparagement on a cultural,
rather than biological basis. In this content, the increasing trend of
lslamophobia, as a distinct form of xenophobia in non-Muslim societies
is very alarming.

That the OIC made these claims as part of its planned inputs to the United Nation’s “Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance”
further demonstrates the coordinated and interoperable nature of these
narratives at international levels in international forums.
As cultural Marxist narratives intensify, they are to be further
operationalized in the form of hate speech narratives. Hate speech
narratives are non-random, coordinated, and fully interoperable
escalations of cultural Marxist memes. Key international players include
the European Union, the UN, and the OSCE, the OIC and the International
Muslim Brotherhood. Hate speech memes are structured, coordinated, and
implemented through these same international forums. They involve close
coordination with media and social media and include the Countering
Violent Extremism (CVE) narratives. David Shipler’s book Freedom of Speech provides a road map for how hate speech narratives are to be structured, deployed and enforced.
Battlespace. These attack narratives are pervasive,
full spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in
social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media, and are
entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies and within the
foreign policy establishment. They inform the entertainment industry
from late night monologues, to situation comedies, to television series
memes, to movie themes. The effort required to direct this capacity at
President Trump is little more than a programming decision to do so. The
cultural Marxist narrative is fully deployed, pervasive, full spectrum
and ongoing. Regarding the president, attacks have become a relentless
24/7 effort.
While there is certainly a Marxist agenda and even lslamist
motivations that must be seriously addressed in their own right, these
motivations alone seem inadequate to explain the scope and magnitude of
the effort directed against the president. The economic drivers behind
the Marxist and Islamist ideologues are enormously influential and seek
to leverage these ideological movements for their own self interests.
While beyond the actual scope of this document, the benefactors of these
political movements include; Urban Real Estate who depend greatly on
immigrant tenants, International Banking who seeks to maintain US debtor
status so as to control the application of American power, and elements
of the business sector that depend upon immigrant labor or government
infrastructure. The overall objective of these economic forces is the
forced urbanization of the populace, thereby necessitating a larger,
more powerful government. In summary, this is a form of population
control by certain business cartels in league with cultural
Marxists/corporatists/lslamists who will leverage Islamic terrorism
threats to justify the creation of a police state.
Adversary Campaign Plan. Political Warfare has been
described as “propaganda in battledress.” [3] The effort directed at
President Trump is executed along one overt, as well as two covert,
lines of effort:

• The overt line of effort is PUBLICITY.
Publicity is the straightforward projection of a case that builds a
picture in the audience’s mind designed to garner support. It is facts
without context and information the adversary wants the audience to
possess that creates an impression and sets conditions. It seeks to
establish good will and receptiveness to additional inputs.
• There are two covert lines of effort: PROPOGANDA [sic] and INFILTRATION/SUBVERSION.

o Propaganda is the deliberate
direction, even manipulation, of information to secure a definite
outcome. It is an attempt to direct the thinking of the recipient,
without his conscious collaboration, into predetermined channels that
are established in the Publicity line of effort. It is the unwitting
conditioning of the recipient by devious methods with an ulterior motive
that seeks to move them incrementally over time into greater belief and
acceptance of message transmitted in the Publicity line of effort.
o Infiltration and subversion operate internal to
the targeted organization in order to inform, target, coordinate, and
amplify the effects of the publicity and propaganda. Both operate to
gather intelligence, obstruct legitimate courses of action, provide
inside information, and leak sensitive information that undermines the
leadership and suppresses the morale of friendly elements.

o Infiltration
of political and social groups within a target state is done for the
purpose of extending counter-state influence and control. The endgame is
concealed and may involve illicit activities.
o Subversion
undermines or detaches the loyalties of significant political and
social groups within the target state and transfers political and/or
ideological loyalties to the counter-state. As the counter-state forms, a
counter-elite of influential individual and key leaders within the
target state will later facilitate the legitimacy and permanency of the
new regime.

Political warfare employs both publicity and propaganda. It
recognizes no intrinsic virtue in the news but rather envisions it as a
mechanism to exploit and build up support. From a political warfare
perspective, control of the news cycle is the most potent means of
attracting and building up a favorable audience. As it relates to the
news cycle, publicity and propaganda can be merged to form a
“pseudo-publicity” that is presented as news in furtherance of
sustaining pseudo-realities maintained by cultural Marxist memes.
Pseudo-publicity treatment of President Trump dominates the news cycle.
The current campaign against President Trump operates in the following
manner:

The Meta Narrative. Meta narratives seeks [sic] to
delegitimize President Trump, his administration, and the vision of
America he projected as a candidate. With cultural Marxist memes serving
as the backdrop, President Trump is to be relentlessly characterized as
unfit through the use of supporting narratives acting to move unwitting
populations to belief in the meta narrative. Hence:

• “President Trump is illegitimate”
• “President Trump is corrupt”
• “President Trump is dishonest”

Note that the twitter accounts and mainstream media personalities
pushing this narrative have seen their audience numbers rise greatly in
the past 6 months. This is a direct result of the supporting and
backdrop narratives channeling individuals to this meta-narrative.
Supporting Narratives. Meta-narratives are supported
by an ongoing series supporting-narratives that can be swapped out as
circumstances warrant. It is important to recognize that these stories
do not have to be true, valid or accurate to serve their purpose. Over
time, deserved or not, the cumulative effect of these supporting
narratives will result in a Trump fatigue. From a political warfare
perspective, President Trump’s inability to meet this challenge will
cast him as a weak failed leader. The current list of supporting
narratives include:

• “Russia hacked the election” – illegitimate
• “Obstruction of Justice” – corrupt
• “Hiding Collusion” – dishonest
• “Putin Puppet” – treasonous

Backdrop Narratives. The backdrop to the meta and
supporting narratives are cultural Marxist memes designed to sustain a
general sense of loathing of President Trump and the America that
elected him. Hence:
• “[meta] President Trump is illegitimate, [supporting] he was elected because of Russian hacking, [backdrop] and besides, he a racist, sexist xenophobe.”
Adversaries utilize these interlocking narratives as a defensive
political and information warfare screen that silences critics and
smears supporters of President Trump. When people in the media question
the behavior, actions and decisions of the Trump Administration’s
opponents, they are immediately said to be “working for the Russians” or
“supporting Russian propaganda.” Individual Americans who support the
President are deemed “deplorable” and “racist.”
End State. Attacks on President Trump are not just about destroying him, but also about destroying the vision of America that lead [sic] to his election.
Those individuals and groups seeking the destruction of President Trump
actually seek to suffocate the vision of America that made him
president. Hence, the end state is not just a delegitimized,
destabilized, immobilized and possibly destroyed presidency; but also a
demoralized movement composed of a large enough bloc to elect a
president that subsequently become self-aware of its own
disenfranchisement.
CONCLUSION.
The recent turn of events give rise to the observation that the
defense of President Trump is the defense of America. In the same way
President Lincoln was surrounded by political opposition both inside and
outside of his wire, in both overt and covert forms, so too is
President Trump. Had Lincoln failed, so too would have the Republic. The
administration has been maneuvered into a constant back-pedal by
relentless political warfare attacks structured to force him to assume a
reactive posture that assures inadequate responses. The president can
either drive or be driven by events; it’s time for him to drive them.
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[1] For more information on how influence operations of the former
Soviet Union targeted leading conservative groups and individuals in
order to bring them into line with cultural Marxist narratives. See Link
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZhqeLRIMo
[2] This discussion relies on Thomas A. Marks’ treatment of the Maoist model as discussed in Maoist People’s War in Post-Vietnam Asia (Bangkok, Thailand: White Lotus Press, 2007), 1-14. Hereafter “Thomas A. Marks, Maoist People’s War.”
[3] “Political Warfare Executive – The Meaning, Techniques and
Methods of Political Warfare,” His Britannic Majesty’s Government,
London, 1942, 5.