Institute for the Study of Conflict organization
also: Institution of Study of Conflict, ICSC, ISC, Shield, I-S-C, ISD, Institute for Study of Conflict, institute, the Institute, ISW, International Studies for War, Institute of the Study of War, Institute of War
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Claims (50)
W.F.K. Thompson member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Right? Jeffrey Fairbarn, F-A-I-R-B-A-I-R-N. S.E. Finer, F-I-N-E-R. Hugh Stetson Watson. Sir Robert Thompson. Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson. And J.H. Adam Watson. Obviously, they're all British.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 13:04
J.H. Adam Watson member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Right? Jeffrey Fairbarn, F-A-I-R-B-A-I-R-N. S.E. Finer, F-I-N-E-R. Hugh Stetson Watson. Sir Robert Thompson. Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson. And J.H. Adam Watson. Obviously, they're all British.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 13:04
Fergus Ling member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Over the years, other prominent individuals joined the council, and they were predominantly military. Retired Major General Fergus Ling, F-E-R-G-I-G-U-S, and his last name L-I-N-G, helped the ISC negotiate the Institute's tax-exempt charita…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 13:37
Institute for the Study of Conflict succeeded
Current Affairs Research Services Center documented
“at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out of CARSC. So it just morphed into a diffe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 12:05
Max Beloff member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out of CARSC. So it just morphed into a diffe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 12:05
Richard Clutterbuck member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“cast of characters to include academics, former civil service and military officers. It was headed by none other than the idea generator Shapiro. And it included Max Beloff, B-E-L-O-F-F, Major General Richard Clutterbuck, Clutterbuck, C-L-U…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 12:34
Information Research Department funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“to justify what it's going to do. We helped the Institute with open source research material available to us and our financial contributions was confined to priming purchases of their material for our overseas locations, meaning they send i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 23:28
Jeffrey Fairbairn member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Right? Jeffrey Fairbarn, F-A-I-R-B-A-I-R-N. S.E. Finer, F-I-N-E-R. Hugh Stetson Watson. Sir Robert Thompson. Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson. And J.H. Adam Watson. Obviously, they're all British.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 13:04
S.E. Finer member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“cast of characters to include academics, former civil service and military officers. It was headed by none other than the idea generator Shapiro. And it included Max Beloff, B-E-L-O-F-F, Major General Richard Clutterbuck, Clutterbuck, C-L-U…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 12:34
Frank Brenchley member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“That's why I'm saying that it's not just our Office of Public Safety, State Department, USAID. All of these entities in NATO had similar programs set up for similar situations. In 1974, Frank Brenchley, B-R-E-N-C-H-L-E-Y,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 28:51
Brian Cozier headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“the author says, almost became a foursome because there was a new one that showed up called the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It was headed by a highly controversial Cold War activist by the name of Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. The I…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 4:37
Kimberly Kagan founded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“It's the Washington Post reporting on this pretty openly. So that revolving door was already there. And he is a regular contributor to something called the Institute for the Study of War. Institute for the Study of War was founded by his wi…”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 16:48
Hugh Stetson Watson member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Right? Jeffrey Fairbarn, F-A-I-R-B-A-I-R-N. S.E. Finer, F-I-N-E-R. Hugh Stetson Watson. Sir Robert Thompson. Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson. And J.H. Adam Watson. Obviously, they're all British.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 13:04
Robert Thompson member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Right? Jeffrey Fairbarn, F-A-I-R-B-A-I-R-N. S.E. Finer, F-I-N-E-R. Hugh Stetson Watson. Sir Robert Thompson. Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson. And J.H. Adam Watson. Obviously, they're all British.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 13:04
R.F. Burns member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
Peter Jank member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“in Europe happening there. Okay. Oh, and so around the time that they were going to start doing coups in Africa, a guy by the name of Peter Jank, J-A-N-K-E, just so happens to have written several things in the series called Conflict Studie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 37:38
Institute for the Study of Conflict linked_to
South Africa host_asserted
“if he would conduct an inquiry into links between the current members of the cabinet and the Institute for Study of Conflict, in view of the links between that organization and South Africa, Rhodesia, and the CIA. Another MP sought assuranc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 39:49
Institute for the Study of Conflict linked_to
Rhodesia host_asserted
“if he would conduct an inquiry into links between the current members of the cabinet and the Institute for Study of Conflict, in view of the links between that organization and South Africa, Rhodesia, and the CIA. Another MP sought assuranc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 39:49
Anthony Cozier headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“as head of the FWF, was later employed as the ISC's director of studies, showing a direct connection. Okay, Cozier was officially the ISC's director, and he left most of its operations day-to-day to Gott Goodwin. Among his jobs, Cozier was …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 41:44
Anthony Cozier resigned_from
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“That's weird, since they had nothing to do with each other. On September 12, 1979, Cozier offered his resignation and immediately was locked out of the ISC premises. Missing from Cozier's account is a correspondence that he had with Thatche…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 46:53
National Strategy Information Center founded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“NSIC was founded in 1962 as an offshoot of the Institute of American Strategy, and its financial backers was none other than the beer giant Joseph Coors, C-O-O-R-S, and Richard Mellon Scape, S-C-A-I-F-E. In 1966, Van Den Heuvel…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 41:56
Scaife Foundation funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Instead, a new constellation of forces arose that seemed to place Interdoc at a disadvantage. From 67 to 68, Barnett linked up with Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R, and laid the path for Cozier's Institute for the Study of Conflict, I-S-C, to b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 42:58
Brian Cozier ran
Institute for the Study of Conflict host_asserted
“world features. He also ran the Institute for the Study of Conflict, we've talked about it before, ISD, which he set up in London in 1970. Posier, who had been recruited to Le Circle by Jean Vallée in 1971, would stop organizing and partici…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 16:47
Lord Chalfont headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict host_asserted
“Initiatives to promote this propaganda theme was discussed within Le Cercle before it was disseminated to individual members, who then took it back to research institutes that they had founded or controlled to publish the appropriate propag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 43:38
Gillian Becker headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict host_asserted
“Initiatives to promote this propaganda theme was discussed within Le Cercle before it was disseminated to individual members, who then took it back to research institutes that they had founded or controlled to publish the appropriate propag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 43:38
Brian Cozier founded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:02:51
Peter Jank member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“During the 1980s, several of the ISC researchers would later go on to work for control risk. Isn't that such a small world? Most notably, South African specialist Peter Janke, J-A-N-K-E, and counterinsurgency proponent Major General Richard…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:03:24
Brian Cozier founded
Institute for the Study of Conflict host_asserted
“all goes to the World Commerce Corporation. So Donovan can make a quick buck off of it. So as part of this entire operation, you have three UK organizations that are set up to assist Brian Cozier in his mission of doing the British piece of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 32:31
Institute for the Study of Conflict funded
Mark Thatcher host_asserted
“One to spy on their own people and one to spy on everybody else is basically what that's saying. They used the internal facing one, SHIELD, to interfere with the election and ensure Margaret Thatcher got elected. That's how you know unequiv…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 34:27
Brian Cozier headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict book_quoted
“So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 26:05
Mafia funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Neither the British nor American governments were prepared to subsidize the ISC in the way that they had other organizations, although it did receive some funding from none other than the International Syndicate, Dutch Shell, British Petrol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 14:34
Institute for the Study of Conflict funded
Mafia host_asserted
“And again, this is important delineation. So they don't ask the right questions. So if you ask them if the Defense Department commissioned any of their work, they're going to say no, because they don't, because they don't know about the Int…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 40:17
Royal Dutch Shell funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Crozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R, his organization was called the Institute for the Study of Conflict in the 1960s. The abandonment of the National Institute model at the end of 1965 created a more fluid structure in Interdox headquarters at the Hagu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 32:59
David Petraeus member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“You have Kevin Mandia, Jack McCarthy, anyone else? Ah, David Petraeus sits on the board. Hmm. And so now you know why Fox News General Keene talks about nothing but neocon versions of both history and what is going on today. Exactly. Let's …”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 18:46
Jack Keane headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Yeah, you're nonpartisan because you're the establishment. You're the neocons and the neolibs all in one place. And every single foreign policy call these people have made, everyone in this family, they've gotten wrong, which we'll show. Bo…”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 18:13
Kimberly Kagan headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Yeah, you're nonpartisan because you're the establishment. You're the neocons and the neolibs all in one place. And every single foreign policy call these people have made, everyone in this family, they've gotten wrong, which we'll show. Bo…”
▶ The Shadow State 42- Secret Societies 25 - WAR PIGS 2025-06-06 @ 18:13
Leonard Shapiro headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out of CARSC. So it just morphed into a diffe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 12:05
Scaife Foundation funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Neither the British nor American governments were prepared to subsidize the ISC in the way that they had other organizations, although it did receive some funding from none other than the International Syndicate, Dutch Shell, British Petrol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 14:34
Royal Dutch Shell funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Neither the British nor American governments were prepared to subsidize the ISC in the way that they had other organizations, although it did receive some funding from none other than the International Syndicate, Dutch Shell, British Petrol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 14:34
British Petroleum funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“Neither the British nor American governments were prepared to subsidize the ISC in the way that they had other organizations, although it did receive some funding from none other than the International Syndicate, Dutch Shell, British Petrol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 14:34
Information Research Department supplied_arms_to
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“We have a reasonably close connection to ISC, particularly with the director. We have provided background material for a number of his periodics, and they have been distributed widely to overseas posts. In general, we consider the ISC to be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 22:29
Institute for the Study of Conflict front_for
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“On the other hand, both Cozier and the ISC were portrayed as important British representatives for the larger transnational anti-communist network, i.e. Gladio. He basically has five sections that he goes over in his essay. The background o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 8:00
Scaife Family funded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“through Barnett, Cozier was able to gain access to funding from the Scaife family, S-C-A-I-F-E. That was essential to the operation of ISC, excuse me, ISC. The initial publication of Annual Power and Conflict, again, the one that kind of mi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 30:23
George Ball member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
Zbigniew Brzezinski member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
Edward Schils member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
Richard Pipes member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
John McCain member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
Kermit Roosevelt member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 32:24
Mark Thatcher member_of
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“It goes on to say that after Margaret Thatcher replaced Heath as party leader in 75, she maintained a relationship with Cozier, as well as many other hierarchy that was at the ISC. Then he moves into the ISC and transnational anti-communist…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 29:50
Mentions (50)
▶ 32:59
Those organizations are called the Institute for the Study of Conflict, S.H.I.E.L.D., and a company called 6i, like M-I-6 backwards without the M, 6i. The former, the Institute for the Study of Conflict, was basically their version of a thi…
▶ 33:30
And all of their propaganda notoriously had to do with, quote unquote, anti-communist. It basically did everything to paint the Soviet Union as, oh, my God, they're going to come over the Folga Gap at any minute. And if we don't guard again…
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were basically set up as private intelligence operations outside of MI6 so they could do covert off-the-books operations. Shield was basically focused on domestic issues where 6i basically looked outside. So the UK set up front companies un…
▶ 34:27
One to spy on their own people and one to spy on everybody else is basically what that's saying. They used the internal facing one, SHIELD, to interfere with the election and ensure Margaret Thatcher got elected. That's how you know unequiv…
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Viollet had been looking for a group that would provide an operational framework for the operation he envisioned for the Circle to participate in, basically one world government. He appears to have settled on the Academy and the UK-based In…
▶ 26:05
So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …
▶ 1:02:17
And if you recall, that was the diversion to get the 75,000 Egyptian troops out of Egypt in order for Israel to attack Egypt in retribution for what they had done to the UK. They collectively all work together. You will never find a situati…
▶ 1:02:51
For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…
▶ 1:03:24
During the 1980s, several of the ISC researchers would later go on to work for control risk. Isn't that such a small world? Most notably, South African specialist Peter Janke, J-A-N-K-E, and counterinsurgency proponent Major General Richard…
▶ 16:18
We've come across him multiple times. C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. He was a militant anti-communist. Cozier was one of the most influential Cold War propagandists working with and for Western intelligence services, especially American and British. He ran…
▶ 43:38
Initiatives to promote this propaganda theme was discussed within Le Cercle before it was disseminated to individual members, who then took it back to research institutes that they had founded or controlled to publish the appropriate propag…
▶ 32:26
they figured out the ways to counter what they were calling a communist threat. Even Shell, the mainstay of the Interdoc operation in the Netherlands, yes, the company Shell, and a vital channel for building contacts in Belgium, France, and…
▶ 42:58
Instead, a new constellation of forces arose that seemed to place Interdoc at a disadvantage. From 67 to 68, Barnett linked up with Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R, and laid the path for Cozier's Institute for the Study of Conflict, I-S-C, to b…
▶ 47:18
took many by surprise, not the least of which was Frank Barnett and the NSIC. Brian Kosiers, always dubious of detente as a cover for nefarious Soviet designs, publicly broke off relations with the ISC-organized multinational conference on …
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Close it up with that. Happy note. So, again, tomorrow, we are going to be discussing a British Cold War think tank in the Institute, which is the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It'll make you chuckle. Not in a good way, though. All r…
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comms coming in over on Rumble. All right, we're ready. This chapter, as I said, is called The Heyday of Britain's Cold War. Think Tank, Brian Cozier, and the Institute for the Study of Conflict from 70 to 79. And again, these are individua…
▶ 4:37
the author says, almost became a foursome because there was a new one that showed up called the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It was headed by a highly controversial Cold War activist by the name of Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. The I…
▶ 5:07
unbiased research into social, economic, and political military causes and manifestation of unrest and conflict throughout the world. So get this. You have them creating all of the political and military unrest and conflicts all over the wo…
▶ 5:38
Their own work. You just can't make that shit up. Unofficially, the Institute's research and activities were very much shaped by its politically active director, Cozier. He admitted in his autobiography that throughout my period as director…
▶ 6:32
Cozier's anti-Soviet and anti-detente views, as well as his reputation as a front man for the CIA, the ISC as a whole became a target of the proverbial left. For instance, in the book, The Terrorism Industry, Edward Herman and Jerry O'Sulli…
▶ 7:31
It was very influential, but not for its stated purpose. The ISC was deservedly a controversial institution, and there was often a great deal of substance in the criticism. The impact of think tanks in relationship to public policy, particu…
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On the other hand, both Cozier and the ISC were portrayed as important British representatives for the larger transnational anti-communist network, i.e. Gladio. He basically has five sections that he goes over in his essay. The background o…
▶ 8:29
mixed relationship with Whitehall and Westminster. He talks about the relationships it had with the anti-communist groups, i.e. Gladio, criticisms of it, and the final section is his defense of the, Cozier's defense of the organization and …
▶ 8:58
The ISC was a brainchild of Cozier and grew out of his earlier work as a quote-unquote journalist and head of a thing called the Forum World Features, FWF, which in and of itself was another CIA front company responsible for disassembling a…
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To fill the gap, he initially complemented his work with FWF by starting up an entity called Current Affairs Research Services Center. It was abbreviated CARSC. In 1969, he began that effort. Initially, it centered on some generic work, but…
▶ 12:05
at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out of CARSC. So it just morphed into a diffe…
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Over the years, other prominent individuals joined the council, and they were predominantly military. Retired Major General Fergus Ling, F-E-R-G-I-G-U-S, and his last name L-I-N-G, helped the ISC negotiate the Institute's tax-exempt charita…
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Michael Goodwin, who had previously been involved with Cold War propaganda, would later replace him. Another organization called the National Strategy Information Center, NSIC, and the International Documentation and Information Center, Int…
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Neither the British nor American governments were prepared to subsidize the ISC in the way that they had other organizations, although it did receive some funding from none other than the International Syndicate, Dutch Shell, British Petrol…
▶ 15:04
There was considerable evidence that the ISC didn't generate a lot of contributions. And it does look, based on their travel schedule and stuff like that, that they were getting covert funding, not just what they were admitting to. In 1972,…
▶ 15:34
He sought money from NATO and CENTO, C-E-N-T-O. And its main source of money seemed to have come from some mysterious place. A highly critical 1976 Guardian article based largely on ISC documentation stated that the bulk of their annual bud…
▶ 16:09
like the conflict studies, which the Institute published. An additional discrepancy arises, again from Cozier's own account, when he noted that from 77 to 79, he and a colleague had raised 73% of their budget had gone to the ISC. Without ac…
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ends meet based on what they were doing. So again, a lot of contention about where they were getting money because they traveled extensively. They issued three types of publication, one called conflict studies, the other one called special …
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of Power and Conflict. It was a survey of political instability and violence worldwide. This publication was a book link and mainly as a reference guide for use on, from what I've read, and I did some research on this, I would characterize …
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as a way to do an assessment of who was going to pony up what covert operations people. And what they were doing is they were going around assessing like where their next operation, and it doesn't come out and clearly say that, but their as…
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Who do you want me to add, Bridget? Stellar. She showed up. Thank you. Just for backup. It looks like they were going around doing quote unquote surveys in order to publish something like the Jane's military capability annual report. Only t…
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or quote-unquote potential conflict areas, which weirdly enough seem to almost 100% end up in conflict at some near-term point. And it does look like they were using that as an assessment on a plan on who was going to pony up what covert re…
▶ 19:04
Again, my assessment, I don't have a smoking gun, but if you compare what they were saying to what actually happened, very close. The range of topics for ISC publications, for example, the conflict studies talked about Northern Ireland, whi…
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In the first segment of Special Report, it focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Apart from looking at the issues of terrorism and insurgency in a broader Cold War perspective, mainly dealing with the Third World, which is where they were g…
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White Hall, he had an office in Piccadilly. And at the height of the mid-1970s, his staff was about 15 people, most of which were researchers that went around and collected all of this material. They were frequently invited to lecture on se…
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Of course, just to make it fair, we've got to talk about his wife, who is Kimberly Kagan. And she's also a military historian who founded this thing called the ISW she's speaking at. And that's the International Studies for War. So one big …
▶ 16:48
It's the Washington Post reporting on this pretty openly. So that revolving door was already there. And he is a regular contributor to something called the Institute for the Study of War. Institute for the Study of War was founded by his wi…
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was an advisor to Stanley McChrystal, David Petraeus, and John Allen. And if you know anything about the military, those are kingpins. This is the guy advising them. Military historian. All right, let's look at the ISW. Who we are.…
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The Institute of the Study of War advocates for an informed understanding of military affairs through reliable research, trusted analysis, and innovative education. We are committed to improving the nation's ability to execute military oper…
▶ 18:13
Yeah, you're nonpartisan because you're the establishment. You're the neocons and the neolibs all in one place. And every single foreign policy call these people have made, everyone in this family, they've gotten wrong, which we'll show. Bo…
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Which, of course, they're part of the apparatus that instigated it to begin with. Absolutely. And we'll get to that more. A lot of it's the same family. Anyway, that's the ISW. That's where Kimberly Kagan. That's where she does most of her …
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and is an Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military History at Yale in 2004 and 2005. Two years later, she was filing at the Institute for the Study of War. All right. She served on the Joint Campaign Plan Assessment Team for the Multination…
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Same people. Big old circle jerk is what it is. And if you look at the funding of the Institute of War, you're going to find that a large chunk of their funding comes from Raytheon, Lockheed, and all of the military-industrial complex. Very…
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So if that's coming over the next 10 years, it's going up like tenfold. All right, a little bit more about the ISW. Just as an example, they've been proponents for military action in the following places, and they got every single one of th…
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And, of course, in 2011, they released four reports urging the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya, which Hillary would dutifully perform months later. But that's where the idea came from, was the ISW and the lovely Kimberly Kagan. Pretty interes…