Imperial Washington, like Berlin in the late 1930s, has become a
psychedelic capital where one megalomaniacal hallucination succeeds
another. Thus, in addition to creating a new geopolitical order in the
Middle East, we are now told by the Pentagon's deepest thinkers that the
invasion of Iraq will also inaugurate "the most important
'revolution in military affairs' (or RMA) in two hundred years."
According to Admiral William Owen, a chief theorist of the revolution,
the first Gulf War was "not a new kind of war, but the last of the
old ones." Likewise, the air wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan were
only pale previews of the postmodern blitzkrieg that will be unleashed
against the Baathist regime. Instead of old- fashioned sequential
battles, we are promised nonlinear "shock and awe."
Although the news media will undoubtedly focus on the sci-fi gadgetry
involved - thermobaric bombs, microwave weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), PackBot robots, Stryker fighting vehicles, and so on - the truly
radical innovations (or so the war wonks claim) will be in the
organization and, indeed, the very concept of the war.
In the bizarre argot of the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation
(the nerve center of the revolution), a new kind of "warfighting
ecosystem" known as "network centric warfare" (or NCW) is
slouching toward Baghdad to be born. Promoted by military futurists as a
"minimalist" form of warfare that spares lives by replacing
attrition with precision, NCW may in fact be the inevitable road to
nuclear war.
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Link:
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http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/07/4881571
pr writes on Friday March 07 2003 @
10:06AM PST: [ reply |
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As most people in the world want peace and will eventually buy it in a
leaderless network the US war machine is doomed.(I trust they wont take
us all with them.)They would have bought in assassination politics by now
if they were not scared it would boomerang.
