Anonymous ID: a1516a Oct. 23, 2021, 10:29 a.m. No.14841841   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1899 >>1950 >>1963 >>2040

BAKER

 

UK’s Secret Taskforce of ‘Bankers’ Reportedly Primed for ‘Financial Warfare’ Against Adversaries

 

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The UK Government published the outcome of its year-long integrated review (IR) of foreign policy, defence, security and international development in March 2021, where it underscored the need to address growing threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks anddisinformationcampaigns.

 

Atop-secret unit of bankersis being commandeered to join a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) taskforce entrusted withprotecting British financial infrastructuresfrom attacks by foreign adversaries, reported The Financial Times.

 

The reservist battalion of bankers will also purportedly be honing the skills they acquired in theCity – London’sfinancial district - toengage in financial and economic warfaretargeting channels of international revenue believed to fund designated terror groups. The unit will, accordingly, provide financial expertise not readily available in mainstream military units.

 

“We need to find key elements of the business model of our opponents, remove them, and make them very difficult to replace,” Marshal Edward Stringer, former MoD Joint Force Development Secretary, was cited as saying.

 

The taskforce is believed to bealready collaborating with Special Forces, intelligence agencies and the British Army’s 77th Brigade.The latter was established in 2015 to draw on existing and developing capabilities to “meet the challenges of modern conflict and warfare”, such as online operations.

 

The newly-expanded secret unit was reportedly instrumental in shutting down funding streams supporting Daesh* after the jihadis seized swathes of Iraq and Syria rich in oil reserves in 2014.

Fundraising for the “caliphate” was targeted, as part of a sophisticated intelligence-gathering operation analysed financial ledgers, receipts and computer records, states the report. As a result, crucial Daesh revenue streams were cut off.

 

Adversaries said to be in the unit’s crosshairs are China – accused of posing an increasingly-challenging cyber threat, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite branch of the Iranian Armed Forces designated as a terrorist organisation by the US, Hezbollah in Lebanon,Russian billionaires with purported links to President Vladimir Putin and Wagner private military company, accused of being Kremlin-affiliated.

 

Ascrypto-currenciesare being increasingly used to funnel money to support terrorist activities and groups such as the Taliban, which swept to power in Afghanistan in the wake of the hasty withdrawal of US and NATO forces from the South Asian country, experts with a skill set in financial technology are in growing demand, according to the report.

 

Tom Keatinge, of theRoyal United Services Institutethink-tank, was cited as saying that “when we’re trying to negotiate with the Taliban… if you need to, you can come down on them like a hammer and put them out of business.”

 

Unlike other recruits, the “banking battalion” will not necessarily be required to endure typical frontline military training, while also purportedly spending less time on the parade square.

 

“We are not trying to throw middle-aged bankers out of the back of an aircraft on military operations – it is about using their professional skills,” a UK defence source was cited by the outlet as saying.

 

Furthermore, a review of the Ministry of Defence’s rank and pay structures is said to be in the works to allow individuals with unique skill-sets to be appropriately rewarded. The MoD will also ostensibly introduce a new “lateral” entry system related to the reserve army, easing age and fitness requirements for “banking” recruits, andenabling the professionals to move directly to senior military ranks…

 

https://sputniknews.com/20211023/uks-secret-taskforce-of-bankers-reportedly-primed-for-financial-warfare-against-adversaries-1090151659.html

 

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Anonymous ID: a1516a Oct. 23, 2021, 10:46 a.m. No.14841950   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1963 >>1977 >>2040

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>Royal United Services Institute

 

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank. Our mission is to inform, influence and enhance public debate to help build a safer and more stable world.

 

About

 

The Royal United Services Institute has been at the heart of military and security thinking for over 190 years. TheDuke of Wellingtonand a number of other senior military commanders established the Institute in 1831, and some of the most influential thinkers in the 19th and 20th centuries worked or spoke at RUSI.

 

RUSI has been at the centre of policymaking and thinking on defence and security from the rise of the British Empire to its transformation and dissolution, through both World Wars and the Cold War. The Institute is now documenting the‘new disorder’of the contemporary world, and it remains an intrinsic part of the research and debate that surrounds military and security thinking.

 

In the 1960s, a group of such officers, in a letter to The Times, publicly argued for an independent think tank for the academic study of national defence. This initiative, which caught the attention ofLord Mountbattenand elicited his support, marked the beginning of a slow but sure expansion of the Institute's activities.

 

The early 1990s saw a marked expansion of RUSI’s professional activities. The Institute’s building benefited from much-needed repairs and refurbishment, and it developed an extensive programme of events to complement its research activities. An evolving structure saw the studies section first split into two departments in the mid-1990s (Military Sciences and International Security Studies) and then, in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, a third department was introduced to focus on issues of Homeland Security and Resilience.

 

From the late 2000s, RUSI re-orientated itself to become a fully-fledged think tank, with research at the heart of its activities and income base. RUSI’s research agenda diversified further, analysing the urgent security questions of our age. In 2015, the Institute took the historic step of appointing itsfirst woman and first American Director-General, Dr Karin von Hippel.Since then, RUSI’s research portfolio has expanded even further, covering financial crime, nuclear proliferation and cyber security.

 

https://rusi.org/about/our-purpose/our-history

 

Dr Karin Lisa von Hippel (born February 1965) is the current Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute.

 

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von Hipple a spook?

 

Hippel was Chief of Staff to General John R. Allen while he was Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).

 

Von Hippel is the author ofDemocracy by Force: US Military Interventionin the Post-Cold War World (2000).

 

Von Hippel holds a PhD from theLondon School of Economics,an MSt fromOxfordUniversity, and a BA fromYaleUniversity.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_von_Hippel

 

"Karin von Hippel". cosmos.ucc.ie. UCC Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

"Karin von Hippel".World Economic Forum.World Economic Forum. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

"Dr Karin von Hippel".Chatham House.Retrieved 2019-07-17.

"Dr Karin von Hippel". rusi.org. Retrieved 22 June 2020.

 

Worked for the United Nations and the European Union inSomalia and Kosovo;direct experience inover two dozen conflict zones.Former Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Defence Studies,King's College London.Co-directed the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC. Served for nearly six years in the USDepartment of State: Senior Adviser, Bureau of Counterterrorism;then Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations; finally, Chief of Staff to General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL. 30 November 2015, became Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Author of numerous publications, including Democracy by Force: US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (2000), which was short-listed for the RUSI Westminster Medal in Military History.

 

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/karin-von-hippel