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Undermines enemy strengths (this may seem obvious, but most of modern
warfare has involved direct attacks on enemy strengths -- find the enemy
army and destroy it).
Victory in 4GW warfare is won in the moral sphere. The aim of 4GW is to destroy the
moral bonds that allows the organic whole to exist -- cohesion. This is done by
reinforcing the following (according to John Boyd Military Strategist):
Operation Shader is the code name given to the British participation in the ongoing
military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The
operation began on 26 September 2014 following a formal request for assistance by
the Iraqi government. Prior to this, the Royal Air Force had been engaged in a
humanitarian relief effort over Mount Sinjar, which involved multiple humanitarian
aid airdrops by transport aircraft and the airlifting of displaced refugees in Northern
Iraq. By 21 October 2014, the intervention had extended onto Syria with the Royal
Air Force conducting surveillance flights over the country. On 7 September 2015, a
Royal Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone conducted an airstrike in Syria which killed two
British-born ISIL fighters. On 17 September 2015, it was reported that around 330
ISIL fighters had been killed by British airstrikes, with zero civilian causalities. By 26
September 2015, ISIL had lost a quarter of its territory.
WHAT UK HAS DONE TO COMBAT 4TH GW:
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: The Nuclear Terrorism Convention (formally, the
International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism) is a 2005
United Nations treaty designed to criminalize acts of nuclear terrorism and to
promote police and judicial cooperation to prevent, investigate and punish those
acts.
North Atlantic Treaty: The North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C. on 4
April 1949, is the treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
North Atlantic Treaty Organization: an organization formed in Washington, D.C.
(1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey,
and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against
aggression.
Anti - Terrorism Legislation: Anti-terrorism legislation are laws the purpose of which
is fighting terrorism. They usually, if not always, follow specific bombings or
assassinations. Anti-terrorism legislation usually includes specific amendments
allowing the state to bypass its own legislation when fighting terrorism-related
crimes, under the grounds of necessity.
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (the Racial and Religious Hatred
Act was supposed to be part of it as provisions, but it was dropped)
The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 was intended to deal with the Law
Lords' ruling of 16 December 2004 that the detention without trial of nine
foreigners at HM Prison Belmars under Part IV of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and
Security Act 2001 was unlawful, being incompatible with the European
Convention on Human Rights. It was given Royal Assent on 11 March 2005.
The Act allows the Home Secretary to impose "control orders" on people he
suspects of involvement in terrorism, which in some cases may derogate (opt
out) from human rights laws. In April 2006, a High Court judge issued a
declaration that section 3 of the Act was incompatible with the right to a fair
trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Act
was described by Mr. Justice Sullivan as an 'affront to justice'. Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, JUSTICE and Liberty have opposed it.
Criticism of the Act included complaints about the range of restrictions that
could be imposed, the use of closed proceedings and special advocates to
hear secret evidence against the detainee, and the possibility that evidence
against detainees may include evidence obtained in other countries by
torture.
The Terrorism Act 2006 increased the limit of pre-charge detention for
terrorist suspects to 28-days after a rebellion by Labour MPs. Originally, the
Government, and Prime Minister Tony Blair, had pushed for a 90-day
detention period, but this was reduced to 28-days after a vote in the House of
Commons. Home Office Minister Damian Green announced on 20 January
2011 that the period would revert to 14 days as the order extending the
period to 28 days would be allowed to lapse at midnight on 24 January.
After the tragic events of 11 September, 2001, emergency laws were passed
which allowed for the indefinite detention of foreign nationals, who were
suspected of being terrorists. Under this law, individuals could be detained
for an unlimited period at a maximum security prison despite never being
charged, let alone convicted, of any offence;
After a 2004 court ruling, that indefinite detention breached human rights
law, detention was quickly replaced by the control order regime in 2005.
The maximum period of detention without charge for most criminal suspects
is 24 to 96 hours. But, between 2006 and 2011, terrorism suspects could be
detained for up to 28 days without charge.
Before it was repealed, section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allowed people to
be stopped and searched without suspicion. This overly broad power was
used against peaceful protesters and disproportionately against ethnic
minority groups;
Britain used a range of poison gases, originally chlorine and later phosgene,
diphosgene and mustard gas. They also used relatively small amounts of the
irritant gases chloromethyl chloroformate, chloropicrin, bromacetone and
ethyl iodoacetate during the World War I.
The Royal Air Force dropped Mustard Gas on Bolshevik Troops in 1919.
British soldiers used blankets filled with smallpox spores to drive the Native
Americans out, killing around 400,000 500,000 people during the Pontiacs
Rebellion from 1763 1766.
Until the 1990s the UK deployed a wide variety of nuclear weapons around
the world, such as V bombers in Singapore in the 1960s, aircraft on Cyprus
and on Royal Navy carriers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Arms Trade Treaty: The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is a multilateral treaty that
regulates the international trade in conventional weapons.
Policies:
The existence of an international legal framework supported by a range of
conventions and treaties is not on its own sufficient to dissuade some countries
from seeking to develop, produce and, in some cases, sell weapons of mass
destruction. The UK works through various international organizations and
groupings to seek peaceful means to reduce the threat posed by among others - the
nuclear programmes of Iran and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, as well
as working to address issues arising from Syrias possession of chemical and
biological weapons. In addition to taking forward activity to reduce the threat posed
by the programmes themselves, the UK separately works to dissuade businesses
and individuals from supporting the activity of the networks that support them.
The government published its National Counter-Proliferation Strategy in March 2012.
The strategys main aims are:
to deny terrorists the materials and expertise to make and use WMD
to stop countries such as Iran and North Korea from obtaining WMD or
advanced conventional weapons