Sean McFate - Revision history

Tom Mills at 19:33, 2 April 2010

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Tom Mills: /* Military career */

2010-04-02T19:31:18Z

Military career

Claire Robinson: /* Military career */

2010-04-01T10:40:13Z

Military career

David: /* Resources */

2010-04-01T08:25:13Z

Resources

David at 07:41, 1 April 2010

2010-04-01T07:41:14Z

Tom Griffin: typo

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typo

Claire Robinson: /* Military career */

2009-06-05T20:19:46Z

Military career

Claire Robinson: /* Think Tank Work */

2009-06-05T20:19:16Z

Think Tank Work

Claire Robinson at 20:18, 5 June 2009

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Claire Robinson at 20:18, 5 June 2009

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 According to a profile of Sean McFate on the website of the US public service radio station NPR:
-:He has flown with the 82nd Airborne, and helped demobilize African armies as a private military contractor — but his true love is opera. His blog, the 'Musical Mercenary,' has the tagline: "War meets opera. May all our passions be deadly." <ref>All Things Considered, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12517305 'Musical Mercenary' Blogs About Opera, War], NPR, Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
+:He has flown with the 82nd Airborne, and helped demobilize African armies as a private military contractor — but his true love is opera. His blog, the 'Musical Mercenary,' has the tagline: "War meets opera. May all our passions be deadly." <ref>All Things Considered, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12517305 'Musical Mercenary' Blogs About Opera, War], NPR, 5 August 2007 </ref>
 On his blog McFate lists himself as being in the consultancy business and his profile on an article he wrote for a U.S. military reads as follows:

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 ==Military career==
-According to a profile of Sean McFate on RTS:
+According to a profile of Sean McFate on the website of the US public service radio station NPR:
-:He has flown with the 82nd Airborne, and helped demobilize African armies as a private military contractor — but his true love is opera. His blog, the 'Musical Mercenary,' has the tagline: "War meets opera. May all our passions be deadly."<ref>All Things Considered, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12517305 'Musical Mercenary' Blogs About Opera, War], ''RTF'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
+:He has flown with the 82nd Airborne, and helped demobilize African armies as a private military contractor — but his true love is opera. His blog, the 'Musical Mercenary,' has the tagline: "War meets opera. May all our passions be deadly." <ref>All Things Considered, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12517305 'Musical Mercenary' Blogs About Opera, War], NPR, Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
 On his blog McFate lists himself as being in the consultancy business and his profile on an article he wrote for a U.S. military reads as follows:

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 According to a profile of Sean McFate on RTS:
-:He has flown with the 82nd Airborne, and helped demobilize African armies as a private military contractor — but his true love is opera. His blog, the 'Musical Mercenary,' has the tagline: "War meets opera. May all our passions be deadly.<ref>All Things Considered, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12517305 'Musical Mercenary' Blogs About Opera, War], ''RTF'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
+:He has flown with the 82nd Airborne, and helped demobilize African armies as a private military contractor — but his true love is opera. His blog, the 'Musical Mercenary,' has the tagline: "War meets opera. May all our passions be deadly."<ref>All Things Considered, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12517305 'Musical Mercenary' Blogs About Opera, War], ''RTF'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
 On his blog McFate lists himself as being in the consultancy business and his profile on an article he wrote for a U.S. military reads as follows:

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 * Sean McFate's blog [http://musicalmerc.blogspot.com/ Musical Mercenary]
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Counterinsurgency|McFate, Sean]]

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 According to a report in the US magazine ''Mother Jones'':
-:Sean McFate is the son of [[Mary Lou Sapone]] (a.k.a. Mary McFate), who infiltrated the U.S. gun control movement on behalf of the [[National Rifle Association]] for 15 years. Sean McFate, a Brown-and Harvard-educated paratrooper, and his wife, Montgomery McFate, a controversial Pentagon adviser, had once both worked for Mary Lou Sapone's business, which specialized, according to an old version of Montgomery's resume, in "domestic and internal opposition research" and "special investigations.<ref>David Corn, [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/08/did-son-nra-connected-private-spy-lose-his-job-because-mom Did the Son of the NRA-Connected Private Spy Lose His Job Because of Mom?], ''MotherJones'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
+:Sean McFate is the son of [[Mary Lou Sapone]] (a.k.a. Mary McFate), who infiltrated the U.S. gun control movement on behalf of the [[National Rifle Association]] for 15 years. Sean McFate, a Brown-and Harvard-educated paratrooper, and his wife, Montgomery McFate, a controversial Pentagon adviser, had once both worked for Mary Lou Sapone's business, which specialized, according to an old version of Montgomery's resume, in "domestic and internal opposition research" and "special investigations."<ref>David Corn, [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/08/did-son-nra-connected-private-spy-lose-his-job-because-mom Did the Son of the NRA-Connected Private Spy Lose His Job Because of Mom?], ''MotherJones'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
 ==Think tank work==

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 [[Image:SeanMcFate.gif|Right|thumb|Sean McFate]]
-[[Sean McFate]] has been a mercenary and a member of the US military.  He is married to the counterinsurgenncy anthropologist [[Montgomery McFate]] and adviser to the [[Human Terrain System]] and his mother [[Mary McFate]] was a spy on the gun control lobby in the US<ref>David Corn, [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/08/did-son-nra-connected-private-spy-lose-his-job-because-mom Did the Son of the NRA-Connected Private Spy Lose His Job Because of Mom?], ''MotherJones'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>".
+[[Sean McFate]] has been a mercenary and a member of the US military.  He is married to the counterinsurgency anthropologist [[Montgomery McFate]] and adviser to the [[Human Terrain System]] and his mother [[Mary McFate]] was a spy on the gun control lobby in the US<ref>David Corn, [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/08/did-son-nra-connected-private-spy-lose-his-job-because-mom Did the Son of the NRA-Connected Private Spy Lose His Job Because of Mom?], ''MotherJones'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>".
 According to a report in the US magazine ''Mother Jones'':

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 On his blog McFate lists himself as being in the consultancy business and his profile on an article he wrote for a U.S. military reads as follows:
-:"an expert in security sector reform, conflict analysis and prevention, and the security-development nexus. He was formerly the principal advisor of peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs at [[DynCorp International]], an NYSE-listed company that provides services to the U.S. government. In that capacity, he advised the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, and various foreign governments on topics ranging from national security strategy to disarmament demobilization and reintegration. He has also served as a U.S. Army officer with the 82d Airborne Division and other units. Following military service, he founded a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., that advised transnational corporations on political risk"<ref>Sean McFate, [http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JulAug07/McFate.pdf The Art and Aggravation of Vetting in post conflict environments], U.S. Army, Accessed 04-June-2009</ref>.
+:an expert in security sector reform, conflict analysis and prevention, and the security-development nexus. He was formerly the principal advisor of peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs at [[DynCorp International]], an NYSE-listed company that provides services to the U.S. government. In that capacity, he advised the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, and various foreign governments on topics ranging from national security strategy to disarmament demobilization and reintegration. He has also served as a U.S. Army officer with the 82d Airborne Division and other units. Following military service, he founded a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., that advised transnational corporations on political risk<ref>Sean McFate, [http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JulAug07/McFate.pdf The Art and Aggravation of Vetting in post conflict environments], U.S. Army, Accessed 04-June-2009</ref>.
 ==Affiliations==

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 :Sean McFate is the son of [[Mary Lou Sapone]] (a.k.a. Mary McFate), who infiltrated the U.S. gun control movement on behalf of the [[National Rifle Association]] for 15 years. Sean McFate, a Brown-and Harvard-educated paratrooper, and his wife, Montgomery McFate, a controversial Pentagon adviser, had once both worked for Mary Lou Sapone's business, which specialized, according to an old version of Montgomery's resume, in "domestic and internal opposition research" and "special investigations.<ref>David Corn, [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/08/did-son-nra-connected-private-spy-lose-his-job-because-mom Did the Son of the NRA-Connected Private Spy Lose His Job Because of Mom?], ''MotherJones'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>
-==Think Tank Work==
+==Think tank work==
 McFate was a program director of the national security initiative at the [[Bipartisan Policy Center]], a Washington think tank boasting an advisory board composed of four former Senate majority leaders: [[Howard Baker]], [[Bob Dole]], [[George Mitchell]], and [[Tom Daschle]]. Sean McFate resigned shorty after an article in [[Mother Jones]] revealing his connections to his mother's activities. The BPC denied there was a link between the article and the resignation.<ref>David Corn, [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/08/did-son-nra-connected-private-spy-lose-his-job-because-mom Did the Son of the NRA-Connected Private Spy Lose His Job Because of Mom?], ''MotherJones'', Accessed 04-July-2009</ref>".