An October 1996 essay written by Colonel Charles Dunlap and published by the USAF Institute for National Security Studies at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, tells of a fictitious military coup in the United States in 2012. Not to worry, civilians come to their senses and boot the generals by 2015.

In any case, Crypt News deems Dunlap's satire dry and eminently worth your perusal.

In "MELANCHOLY REUNION: A REPORT FROM THE FUTURE ON THE COLLAPSE OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES," Dunlap pokes savagely at Science Applications, the secretive Pentagon mega-consultant think-tank/engineering firm that pops up infrequently in Crypt Newsletter pieces on information warfare.

Dunlap morphs Science Applications, or SAIC, into "VAIC" for "Violence Applications International Corporation." "Eventually, the Pentagon's aversion to fighting compelled the ultimate form of outsourcing: hazardous, unpopular operations were contracted out to the newly formed Violence Applications International Corporation (VAIC)," Dunlap writes. "For years, VAIC and its stable of retirees did the military's dirty work, thereby allowing the armed forces the opportunity to deepen their involvement in popular domestic activities and trendy overseas enterprises."

However, the "VAIC" careerists prove somewhat frangible when it comes to the work of real military men. "But when the Second Gulf War broke out in 2010 and the Iranian Tenth Armored Corps began crushing everything in its path, VAIC defaulted on its contract as its employees scattered . . . Corporate loyalty, it seems, has its limits," writes Dunlap.

Also in for skewering is the concept known as "Total Quality Management." Dunlap's essay is unequivocal in its condemnation of the practice. Unsurprisingly, Crypt Newsletter was able to find quite a bit on "Total Quality Management" in the U.S. government, some of it vended by whiz-bangs at -- take a guess, yes, that's right -- Science Applications.

On the FedWorld Website, Crypt News found a Science Applications "president" and mouthpiece Roger Garrett burbling on about "Total Quality Management" and its utility in pursuing contracts with the Pentagon.

". . . we're in a highly competitive and uncertain market because of the Department of Defense (DOD) budgets," Garrett says.

Garrett continues on about barriers to "Total Quality Management": "The biggest one is the buy-in of management and supervisors, because you're taking away their sand box. They now start dealing with issue from below instead of issues from above.

"There is this fear of empowerment, that if we empower the people, you'll have anarchy, they are going to do whatever they want. The truth is, if you do a good job of empowering people, you're going to have more power because you'll have more time to worry about other things instead of being a benevolent dictator."

Col. Dunlap, apparently sick-to-death of "Total Quality Management," writes in a manner seemingly directed pointedly at fellows like Roger Garrett:

"Especially insidious was the assault of a new ideology known as total quality management or TQM. No one back then [Dunlap means in the Nineties.] truly objected to teaching better management skills. But TQM and, more accurately, the corruption of its beneficial aspects became much more than that. With cultish frenzy, its devotees attempted to reduce to metrics the ultimately unquantifiable nature of combat readiness and warfighting. Somehow the performance of military functions was equated with the production of 'products.'

". . . Traditional superior-subordinate and comrade-in-arms relationships were replaced by faddish customer-supplier associations. This eventually undermined discipline as military personnel began to believe they were 'empowered' to ignore orders that didn't suit them . . . Plenty of officers in the 1990s recognized the lunacy of TQM, but few were willing to confront its powerful zealots."

Overclassification and the current fetish with information warfare were also leading indicators that the U.S. military was about to turn on the civilian government, writes Dunlap.

You'll want to read the original.

SAIC consultants and the Sommy of the Pentagon

Science Applications has appeared in Crypt Newsletter recently because any careful study of the twin phenomena of "electronic Pearl Harbor" and the alleged grave menace posed by electronic bogeymen often winds up pointing to SAIC mouthpieces.

For instance, more SAIC employees in the public record, telling us the sky is falling, has fallen, or is about to fall, due to hackers, pan-national info-terrorists, cybergangs or more frequently, the unnameable:

"A terrorist state that doesn't have [info-war] technology can hire the technology," says Duane Andrews in a March 17 issue of USA Today. Andrews, a mouthpiece and executive vice president of Science Applications who has starred in prior Crypt missives, is almost ubiquitous in mainstream news on the subject. What is never mentioned is that Andrews, as the leader of DoD's Defense Science Board is in the unique position of being able to write policy recommendations that feed directly to services that Science Applications consultants provide. And nothing that he's saying is new. Andrews was singing the same tune about imminent national catastrophe in 1992. It wound up being quoted in Alvin Toffler's "War and Anti-War" in 1993. In the land of Crypt Newsletter, Andrews and Science Applications are working a bald-faced conflict-of-interest, but in Washington, D.C., very few seem to mind.

"The Internet bulletin boards are littered with people offering their [terrorist] services," continued Andrews for USA Today.

Further, in the USA Today article, yet another salesman for Science Applications, Michael Higgins, says: "Who says we haven't seen an electronic Pearl Harbor?"

We've already seen "electronic Pearl Harbor." We haven't yet but it's just around the corner. We're in the middle of it. Or it's a "digital Chernobyl. These are some of the claims Science Applications consultants can be documented as saying for the public record in 1997, depending on what time of day a reporter calls them.

Higgins says we may have already suffered "electronic Pearl Harbor" because he and colleagues at SAIC -- the type of Dept. of Defense "retirees" Charles Dunlap ridicules -- are said to be chasing a dangerous computer intruder -- unnamed, of course -- through Pentagon computers. And they can't catch him yet. But he's dangerous and menacing to the security of the kingdom.

Sound familiar? If it does it's because it fits the script for countless stories on nameless info-terrorists. The USA Today claim is most reminiscent of the furor that surrounded the legend of Sommy. In case you missed it, Sommy was the name of a mysterious uber-hacker said to be terrorizing a Canadian family to the point where his victims wanted to sell their home. Sommy was an eavesdropper. He controlled the TV, the telephone and family ATM cards. Sommy was said to be untraceable, untouchable. One of the major TV network news shows even sent a "crack" security team to find him. The team, for the camera, anyway, was stumped. However, Sommy turned out to be a 15-year old kid in the family with a talent only for lying repeatedly to his parents and the newsmedia.

And still another SAIC salesman, Ronald Knecht, warns of imminent national doom in the same article. "If somebody was going around and wiring high explosives to the infrastructure of this country, we'd be concerned . . . Well, if I were to write a novel and describe the preparation of the battlefield for electronic warfare attack on the U.S. . . . it wouldn't look too different."

Summary: A list of Science Applications consultants to Department of Defense who have (1) warned of imminent "electronic Pearl Harbor;" (2) warned that "electronic Pearl Harbor" is going on right now; (3) warned that "electronic Pearl Harbor" has already happened; or (4) any combination of the first three.


       Duane Andrews -- multiple times, dating from 1992.
       Ronald Knecht -- promised he could write a novel on how to do it.
       Ronald Gove   -- could occur anytime, quotes from 1995 to present.
       Michael Higgins -- "electronic Pearl Harbor" is happening, or 
       might have already happened.

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