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On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, I had the honor of conducting a seminar on financial warfare for a class from the U.S. Army War College.
The War College is based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but my seminar was conducted in New York City as part of a visit to the city by the class.
The U.S. Army War College is not a typical educational institution. Courses are offered at the graduate level only. There is no undergraduate curriculum. Students are typically midcareer officers: captains, majors and lieutenant colonels who are preparing for senior leadership positions.
My class was even more elite than typical War College students. I taught a group of about 15 officers as part of the Advanced Strategic Art Program. These students are the best and brightest in the military who are being specially trained in strategic thinking and planning.
The seminar students included officers from the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. Some had military postings, while others were on secondment to the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The students were all heading to new assignments after completing their class work at the War College. When the new assignments were disclosed, some just muttered “Hawaii” in muted tones. They could not be more specific, but I took “Hawaii” to mean the Hawaii Cryptologic Center, HCC, on Oahu, which is the NSA’s super-secret listening post for signals intelligence from Asia.
In five or 10 years, you can expect members of this class to achieve a general’s rank and to hold positions at the highest levels of the Defense Department, National Security Council and agencies in the Intelligence Community such as the CIA or NSA.
As I mentioned above, the subject of my seminar was “Financial Warfare.” The fact that the dean and program leaders had included financial warfare on the curriculum of a strategic arts program shows how financial weapons have penetrated the battlespace.
Future leaders of the U.S. military will not be considered versed in all of the arts of war unless they have had at least some exposure to financial weapons, tactics and strategy.
My seminar plan covered two hours, of which the first hour would be formal presentation and the second hour was reserved for discussion. I encouraged the class to ask questions or interject in the first hour as well. I warned them I was perfectly capable of speaking for several hours without pausing for breath, and if they did not want to hear me go on for that long, it was in their interests to start the dialogue as soon as possible.
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