F3EAD

 

Ever seen that acronym before?

It’s simple: Find. Fix. Finish. Exploit. Analyze. Disseminate.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

It’s the template used to shut down those that mean the United States ill. It’s the template that spans across military services, all different federal agencies. It’s a template that those sworn to protect these United States have turned into high art.

Americans are safer today because of F3EAD.

Michael Flynn midwifed that template. He coached and nurtured it through its first steps; he taught our forces how to use it as we crawled, then walked then ran through that paradigm in defense of this country.

Every American is safer today because of Michael Flynn. I’ve got no real affection for general officers, but Flynn’s contributions to national security were exceptional.

Hopefully, the DOJ’s recommendation to dismiss the charges against him will be seen as exoneration. I doubt that our garbage media will have the intellectual honesty to proclaim it so.

Kayleigh MacEnany’s highlighting of Flynn to the WH press corps was entirely appropriate.

The main takeaway, though, is that, should you add up the contributions to national security and keeping Americans safe of every individual involved in investigating and prosecuting Flynn, he would far outstrip that aggregate number.

The man is a hero, and they took him down without a moment’s hesitation or a second thought. Something to think on as we go forward.

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  1. Percival Thatcher
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    He disagreed with Obama. He had to be destroyed.

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  2. Flicker Coolidge
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    He wanted to fundamentally change the CIA.  He had to be destroyed.

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  3. EDISONPARKS Member
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    The MSM relies on the American public to have been unable/unwilling to have followed and absorbed the well documented corruption of the Obama DOJ/FBI/IC in the entire SpyGate clusterschtoop.  To be fair, it is a complicated series of tangential, yet very related “story” lines most of which would have been nailed down and put to bed with the perps not just out of their jobs(as they are now), but rather doing time in the Federal pokey …. if the MSM had only done their jobs which is speak truth to power.

    What is revealing now is how these same corrupt MSM dirtbags are still willing to pretend their deep state cocktail party buds are victims of the BushHitlerHaliburton (oops wrong decade) The Bad Red Man and his evil compadre Billy Barr’s perversion of the Constitution.

    I do enjoy observing the Left/(D)/MSM/Culture machine go through their entirely predictable yet brutally transparent gyrations as they try once again to “mold” the narrative(ie: lie) to the American public.

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  4. Eeyore Member
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    I heard a montage recently on some podcast of journos saying this was the end of any sense of justice before the law because of Barr acting as toady for The Orange Man. IIRC, one even said it was the worst legal decision in the history of the nation.

    Calling them “Commies” is understating their loathing for this country.

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  5. Judge Mental, Secret Chimp Member
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    Five minutes after Sullivan drops the case, Trump should make him National Security Advisor.  I think the current is an acting, and no Senate confirmation is required.

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  6. Boss Mongo Member
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    Judge Mental, Secret Chimp (View Comment):

    Five minutes after Sullivan drops the case, Trump should make him National Security Advisor. I think the current is an acting, and no Senate confirmation is required.

    Concur.

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  7. Sandy Member
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    What a relief that he was not pardoned.  For a long time I’d thought he should be and wondered why the President did not act.  Now I’m wondering whether it was good instinct on his part, or maybe a signal from Sidney Powell or even Bill Barr.  Or both.

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  8. Sandy Member
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    Meant to thank you for this, Boss.  Nothing like hearing from someone who knows.

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  9. Boss Mongo Member
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    Sandy (View Comment):

    Meant to thank you for this, Boss. Nothing like hearing from someone who knows.

    Thank you, @sandy.  But please be advised, I generally don’t know doodly about squat.

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  10. Sandy Member
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    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    Sandy (View Comment):

    Meant to thank you for this, Boss. Nothing like hearing from someone who knows.

    Thank you, @sandy. But please be advised, I generally don’t know doodly about squat.

    Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Anyway, that’s exactly what someone who knows a few things would say.

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  11. Django Member
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    Did this come before TcPED, or are they related? 

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  12. Bob Armstrong Thatcher
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    Django (View Comment):

    Did this come before TcPED, or are they related?

    Find-Fix-Finish is more of a tactical-level use of intelligence, where T-PED is applied more at the operational/strategic level. Intelligence preparation of the battlefield is done through T-PED, establishing a general contextual framework for understanding who’s who in the zoo and how major actors relate to each other while F3EAD is used to generate effects on the battlefield. The major innovation in F3EAD is close linkage between intelligence collection and operations through the use to things such as sensitive site exploitation and intelligence support teams. The famous “green curtain” between ops and intel is intentionally lowered so that intelligence gains in near real-time can be used to direct teams in motion, or actions can be conducted to drive intelligence gains. If you are familiar with how the Navy determined the location for the battle of Midway through the use of operational deception, that was an early precursor to the process later refined by Flynn.

    Or so I’ve heard tell. 

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  13. Django Member
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    Bob Armstrong (View Comment):

    Django (View Comment):

    Did this come before TcPED, or are they related?

    Find-Fix-Finish is more of a tactical-level use of intelligence, where T-PED is applied more at the operational/strategic level. Intelligence preparation of the battlefield is done through T-PED, establishing a general contextual framework for understanding who’s who in the zoo and how major actors relate to each other while F3EAD is used to generate effects on the battlefield. The major innovation in F3EAD is close linkage between intelligence collection and operations through the use to things such as sensitive site exploitation and intelligence support teams. The famous “green curtain” between ops and intel is intentionally lowered so that intelligence gains in near real-time can be used to direct teams in motion, or actions can be conducted to drive intelligence gains. If you are familiar with how the Navy determined the location for the battle of Midway through the use of operational deception, that was an early precursor to the process later refined by Flynn.

    Or so I’ve heard tell.

    Interesting take on the issue. With TENCAP (aka J-TENS), NETCAP, and a dozen others, I always had trouble keeping up. 

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  14. Instugator Thatcher
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    Boss Mongo (View Comment):
    doodly about squat.

    Come on, you do know squats.

     

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  15. Boss Mongo Member
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    Instugator (View Comment):

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):
    doodly about squat.

    Come on, you do know squats.

     

    That’s a fair bust.  You are correct, sir.

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