OK, so I’m reaching a little bit for this week’s posting.
But give me a break, you can’t be a creative genius every week and I’ve spent
the past several weeks in Idaho where I didn’t even get much of a chance to
enjoy the country side.
Today’s posting was inspired by the Washington Times (not
the Washington Post) article: “US and Russia in a new standoff” which appeared
in the August 21, 2012 website at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/21/us-and-russia-in-a-new-standoff/.
(Which is also the photo source)
The nub of the article is that Tajikistan is potentially a
very strategic ally. That the Russians have had a strong military presence
there which is slated to end in 2014. The year coincidentally that NATO would
close its base in adjoining Krgrystan.
The article opines that while Russia is confident it can
conclude a deal that would give them long term access, this is not necessarily
the case. It appears that other countries such as India are also interested in
employing Tajikistan as a military logistics point.
Suppose for the moment that DOD wanted to use Tajikistan
very badly and that they were willing to offer military type assistance through
increased mil to mil activities and by providing military equipment along with
the training to the Tajik military.
The question I pose for the community is: should MISO be
part of the mil to mil exchange so that the Tajiks could learn the fine points
of Military Information Support Operations? I must confess that I really don’t
know too much about the history of Tajikistan so that I can’t comment if they
even consider non-kinetic operations as significant.
Having said that I would
wager that if NATO offered some of the cyber expertise from their Estonian
Center, this might be a very powerful incentive.
Thoughts?
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