US/Military

US/Military  (Armed Forces)
Interest of	Danny Sjursen

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and forms military policy with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out.

Pollution

The United States military is one of the biggest polluters on earth, with more impact than 140 countries combined. It is the biggest consumer of fossil fuels on the planet when looking by organization; it spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning (!) in Iraq and Afghanistan alone, according to estimates by Pentagon officials.

According to an EPA list, almost 900 of the nearly 1,200 Superfund sites across the United States are abandoned military facilities or locations that were used to support military needs. One such base, Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was held accountable for the contamination of the area’s groundwater. The military base was deemed responsible for dumping a large amount of carcinogens in the groundwater between 1953 and 1987. But only in February 2018 the federal government allowed affected individuals to file for official compensation claims.

In war zones the US military has been using depleted uranium against enemy forces and burn pits to get rid of all material. Both have serious, understated health impacts on soldiers, environment (even globally) and population.

 

A Document by US/Military

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
File:Inside-the-wire-reference-guide.pdf	handbook	2 February 2012	Afghanistan/2001 Invasion	A US Army pocket reference guide given to all US military personnel serving in Afghanistan from February 2012. It provides advice on how to prevent so-called 'green-on-blue' attacks, where Afghan security forces turn their weapons on the coalition soldiers who have trained them.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
US/Air Force
US/Army
US/Coast Guard
US/Marine Corps
US/Navy

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Barack Obama	“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama's ideology," - "The White House protects their own. That's why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and ObamaCare. He's intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”	Barack Obama Paul E. Vallely	2013
Toxoplasma gondii	“You want to know something terrifying? Here's something terrifying and not surprising. The U.S. military knows about Toxo and its effect on behavior. They're interested in Toxo. They're officially intrigued. An I would think they would be intrigued, studying a parasite that makes mammals perhaps do things that everything in their fiber normally tells them not to do because it's dangerous. But suddenly, with this parasite on board, the mammal is a little more likely to go and do it. Who knows? But they're aware of Toxo.”	Professor in neurology and neurosurgery Robert Sapolsky	2 December 2009

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World	article	3 July 2015	Mike Whitney	A critique of the 2015 US National military strategy document
Document:US charged with war crimes in Syria prison siege	Article	27 January 2022	Bill Van Auken	Syria’s state media agency Sana quoted the country’s Foreign Ministry as denouncing the actions of the US and its puppet Kurdish-led militia as tantamount to “war crimes”. It demanded the immediate withdrawal of both US troops from northeastern Syria and the Turkish military from the northwest of the country.
File:2015 US National Military Strategy.pdf	military strategy document	July 2015	Joint Chiefs of Staff	Offical 2015 strategy of the US military concerning its equipment, deployments and doctrines.
File:Defense Strategic Guidance.pdf	report	January 2012	US Department of Defense
File:Owning the Weather.pdf	paper	August 1996	Col Tamzy J. House James B. Near Jr. Lt Col William B. Shields Ronald J. Celentano David M. Husband Ann E. Mercer James E. Pugh	An official document of the US Air Force dealing with research and development of weather modification programs on a 25 year view. Its publication coincided with the start of an upsurge in public awareness and disquiet about 'Chemtrails'

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