User Guide

GLOBAL DEFENSE

INITIATIVE

Commonly, GDI. Before 1990, known as Special Operations Group Echo, Black Ops 9.

FOUNDED

: 12 October 1995, in accordance with the United Nations Global Defense

Act (UNGDA)

IDEOLOGY

: To enforce the United Nations Global Defense Act and uphold the ideals

as outlined in the United Nations Charter.

CURRENT HEAD OF STATE

: Brigadier General Mark Jamison Shepherd, Chief of

Staff, United Nations Military Command.

BASE OF OPERATIONS

: United Nations Military Command Center, location

CLASSIFIED.

MILITARY STRENGTH

: Within parameters of the UNGDA, Article V, Section 3A,

Paragraph 12.

ECONOMIC STRENGTH

: Funded by United Nations and various national

governments, public organizations, and private enterprise.

POLITICAL STRENGTH

: Not applicable: operates within parameters of the UNGDA

and under the orders of the United Nations Security Council.

AFFILIATIONS

: United Nations.

SEE ALSO: Shepherd, M.J.; United Nations, 1995 to present; United Nations Global

Defense Act, 1995; Mobius, Dr. R.H.

HISTORY

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