Do you think the Pentagon has ever considered Wall Street a threat to national security?

[yurbud]

With the destruction of our manufacturing base, mass foreclosures, and demanding the privatization and therefore degradation of public services, and shifting the tax burden visibly from the wealthy to the working and middle class, aren't they creating domestic instability?

I'm sure the military has run all kinds of scenarios on domestic unrest and rebellions, but I wonder if they went a step further and looked at the causes, and more importantly, ways to neutralize them with cyber-warfare or other tactics.

I doubt that the CIA has done so since they seem to think their job is doing Wall Street's bidding, but at least those in the military came from the working and middle class, and might have the distance to see the financial sector for the threat that it is to not just our domestic security, but to our ability to counter foreign threats, and even the creation of those foreign threats by destabilizing other countries through the same kleptocratic austerity measures.

If anyone has read about this in war college journals or something like this, please let me know.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Probably not

The military has a healthy respect for the concept of civilian control over it, with the three branches of the Federal Government deciding what it's rules and laws are, and where it will and will not go to battle.

Of course, as long as Wall Street can buy all three branches, they are in effect the military's masters.

[GKirk]

2. Wall St is the Pentagon and

the Pentagon is Wall Street.

I think they call it the Military Industrial Complex.

[yurbud]

4. there's a crucial difference with the military partner: until someone reaches the pentagon...

which most never do or aspire to, they aren't thinking about cashing in on Wall Street or scratching their back: they really believe they are looking after our national security--which is why so many guys get PTSD from wars like Iraq when it quickly becomes apparent they are killing people who are no threat to us.

Mid-level officers write papers for the war colleges. While a paper of this kind would never become policy, I could see it at least being written and even possibly published.

[Snoutport]

3. treason at a time of war...is undermining the system, right? nt