Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Stupid? Delusional? Or do you think that we are?

If you find yourself at this little corner of the blogosphere, chances are you got referred here from Socnet regarding noted anti-terror trainer and on-again off-again Russian Special Forces dude John Giduck. I am not going to spend much time here on the many and varied claims surrounding Johnny's Special Education Forces career, instead I want to focus on some ideas of surpassing stupidity espoused by John Giduck. Oh yeah- I've been looking for some pics of Johnny looking uber tactical.

 Alright- so that isn't him, I'll resist the temptation to comment on the similarities.

How exactly did John Giduck get away with being considered an expert in CT/AT for as long as he did? This is the most perplexing thing to me. It all seems to center around his first book- Terror at Beslan (TAB). Is this book really, as John A. Anderson would have us believe "An explosive expose of Russian failure and what America must do to protect its children"? There seems to be a high correlation between publicly proclaiming that and having a vested interest in John Giduck's success. John A Anderson is the chairman of the board of John Giduck's company Archangel. This is the only reason that I can come up with for a Special Forces SGM (retired) to endorse this book- thereby endorsing some suggestions that range from the merely boneheaded to the completely brain-dead.
I'll let the reader decide which category putting 3 former Specops types in every school in the country falls into.


This is a suggestion that I think illustrates quite clearly exactly how much military expertise John Giduck really has- honestly, I have a difficult time getting past the absolute inanity of this suggestion. Questions that he apparently didn't ask himself, despite being possessed of a lawyer's analytical mind:

1) How many schools are there in this country?
     A: 98,706 as of 2010
2) How many special operations personnel are there in this country?
     A: Well under the 296,118 required under this plan (note, that doesn't include training positions)
3) How many  special operations personnel are willing to leave the military to play hall monitor for       50k a year?
     A: I don't know, but I am betting it would be well under 10% of the available force.




The open sources I could find on the numbers of Specops Soldiers that the U.S. has (which I will not repeat) are far enough away from the demand in John Giduck's suggestion as to render it laughable- well under 5% of what he would require from what I can gather. OK- so one idea is not just silly- it is unworkable- what other brilliant ideas does John Giduck suggest on the subject of protecting our nation's schools? Let's put a gas dispersal system in every school in the country so we can instantly knock out everyone inside in the event of a "terror hostage standoff."


Just remember- if you aren't willing to gas your kids the terrorists have won and our entire way of life is forfeit. Alright- so that is two ideas that can't even withstand a sidelong glance.  The question is- why are such obviously bad ideas being espoused by men who should know better if we believe their resumes? The answer is that fear sells. And make no mistake, if you read Terror at Beslan it becomes painfully obvious that John Giduck and Archangel are trying to become the preeminent dealers in that particular commodity.

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  1. I was mildly amused by John Guidicks till someone on another site posted a quote out of one of his books, paraphrasing, "If they are dead put two to there head and move on." there is so much wrong about a statement like that I won't attempt to rebut it...just plain common sense starts the alarm bells ringing. But if you pair that kind of advice with calling for untrained folks to become involved in an active event using his tactics...well it's almost criminal on his part to give out such advice..

    This is an unsolicited opinion.

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    1. That is straight out of Terror at Beslan. John Giduck doesn't have much use for silly details like due process or the constitution. This is evidenced by both that suggestion and by his attempts to stifle free speech criticizing his ideas. I would just chuckle at it and move on if he weren't apparently receiving taxpayer's dollars to spread his nonsense.

      Do we really want someone who believes in summary executions training police? The one question that I have for Mr. Giduck is still "Do you really believe the things that you are saying, or is this just about money?"

      As tempting as it is to simply assume the only motive is monetary, there are actually people out there that think the way that he does. I suspect that most of them are variations on the theme of 13 year old airsoft aficionados. One would hope that they have outgrown these kinds of juvenile masturbatory attitudes by the time they get through puberty but that is not always the case.

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