Coz we have fools in the govt, the downfall of the US has only been
accelerated !!
The are morons who staged 9/11 controlled demolition to kill americans
to start their idiotic war.
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:12:20 -0500
Subject: [nsmworld] war with china? a different approach?
From: "J. Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greater China
Apr 20, 2006
SPEAKING FREELY
If it comes to a shooting war ...
By Victor N Corpus
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One could call this article a worst-case scenario for the new American
century. Why worst case? Because of the hard lessons from history. The
Romans did not consider the worst-case scenario when Hannibal crossed
the
Alps with his elephants and routed them; or when Hannibal encircled and
annihilated the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of
Cannae.
The French did not consider the worst-case scenario at Dien Bien Phu
and
when they built the Maginot Line, and the French suffered disastrous
defeats. The Americans did not consider the
worst-case scenario at Pearl Harbor or on September 11, and the results
were
disastrous for the American people. Again, American planners did not
consider the worst-case scenario in its latest war
in Iraq, but instead operated on the "best-case scenario", such as
considering the Iraq invasion a "cake walk" and that the Iraqi people
would
be parading in the streets, throwing flowers and welcoming American
soldiers
as "liberators", only to discover the opposite.
Scenario One: America launches 'preventive war' vs China
Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This
is a
dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and
requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating
a
region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient
to
generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia,
the
territory of the former Soviet Union and Southwest Asia.
-Paul Wolfowitz, former US deputy secretary of defense and currently
president of the World Bank
Consider these snapshots of China:
Since 1978, China has averaged 9.4% annual GDP growth
It had a five-fold increase in total output per capita from 1982 to
2002
It had $61 billion in foreign direct investment in 2004 alone and
foreign
trade of $851 billion, the third-largest in the world
The US trade deficit with China exceeded $200 billion in 2005
China has $750 billion in foreign exchange reserves and is the
second-biggest oil importer
Last year it turned out 442,000 new engineers a year; with 48,000
graduates
with master's degrees and 8,000 PhDs annually; compared to only 60,000
new
engineers a year in the US.
China for the first time (2004) surpassed America to export the most
technology wares around the world. China enjoyed a $34 billion trade
surplus
with the US in advanced technology products in 2004 (The Economist,
December
17, 2005). In 2005, the surplus increased to $36 billion
It created 20,000 new manufacturing facilities a year
It holds $252 billion in US Treasury Bonds (plus $48 billion held by
Hong
Kong)
Among the five basic food, energy and industrial commodities -grain
and
meat, oil and coal and steel -consumption in China has eclipsed that
of the
US in all but oil.
China has also gone ahead of the US in the consumption of TV sets,
refrigerators and mobile phones
In 1996, China had 7 million cell phones and the US had 44 million. Now
China has more mobile phone users than the US has people.
China has about $1 trillion in personal savings and a savings rate of
close
to 50%; U.S. has about $158 billion in personal savings and a savings
rate
of about 2% (The Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2005)
Shanghai boasts 4,000 skyscrapers - double the number in New York
City (The
Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2005)
Songbei, Harbin City in north China is building a city as big as New
York
City
Goldman Sachs predicts that China will surpass the US economy by 2041.
Before China's economy catches up with America, and before China builds
a
military machine that can challenge American superpower status and
world
dominance, America's top strategic planners (Project for the New
American
Century) decide to launch a "preventive war" against China. As a
pretext for
this, the US instigates Taiwan to declare independence.
Taiwan declares independence!
China has anticipated and long prepared itself for this event. After
observing "Operation Summer Pulse -04" when US aircraft carrier
battle
groups converged in the waters off China's coast in mid-July through
August
of 2004, Chinese planners began preparing to face its own worst-case
scenario: the possibility of confronting a total of 15 carrier battle
groups
composed of 12 from America and three from its close British ally.
China's
strategists refer to its counter-strategy to defeat 15 or more aircraft
carrier battle groups as the "assassin's mace" or shashaujian.
After proper coordination with Russia and Iran and activating their
previously agreed strategic plan, troops and weapon systems are
pre-positioned. China then launches a missile barrage on Taiwan.
Command and
control nodes, military bases, logistics centers, vital war industries,
government centers and air defense installations are simultaneously hit
with
short and medium range ballistic missiles armed with conventional,
anti-radar, thermo baric and electro-magnetic pulse warheads.
At the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command and Control
Center,
ranking defense officials watch huge electronic monitor screens showing
seven US and two British aircraft carrier battle groups converging on
the
East China Sea with another three US carrier battle groups entering the
Persian Gulf, while the remaining two US and one British battle groups
remain in the Indian Ocean to serve as a strategic reserve.
As the aircraft carrier battle groups advance, China draws out one of
its
"trump cards" by leaking to the world media that it is dumping its
holdings
of US Treasury bonds and shifting to gold and euros.
Meanwhile, strategic planners at NORAD watch with glee as they observe
on
the screen as monitored by their radar satellites that Chinese surface
ships
are making a hasty retreat as nine allied carrier battle groups advance
toward the Philippine Sea and Chinese waters near Taiwan.
The assassin's mace: China's anti-satellite weapons
Glee and ecstasy soon turn to shock as monitor screens suddenly go
blank.
Then all communication via satellites goes dead. China has drawn its
second
"trump card" (the assassin's mace) by activating its maneuverable
"parasite"
micro-satellites that have unknowingly clung to vital (NORAD) radar and
communication satellites and have either jammed, blinded or physically
destroyed their hosts.
This is complemented by space mines that maneuver near adversary
satellites
and explode. Secret Chinese and Russian ground-based anti-satellite
laser
weapons also blind or bring down US and British satellites used for
C4ISR
(command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance
and
reconnaissance). And to ensure redundancy and make sure that the
adversary
C4ISR system is completely "blinded" even temporarily, hundreds of
select
Chinese and Russian information warriors (hackers) specifically trained
to
attack their adversary's C4ISR systems simultaneously launch their
cyber
offensive.
For a few precious minutes, the US and UK advancing carrier battle
groups
are stunned and blinded by the "mace", ie, a defensive weapon used to
temporarily blind a stronger opponent. But the word mace has another
meaning; one which is deadlier and used in combination with the first.
A mace can be a spiked war club used in olden times to knock out an
opponent. Applied in modern times, the spikes of the assassin's mace
refer
to currently unstoppable supersonic cruise missiles capable of sinking
aircraft carriers that are in China's inventory; complemented by
equally
unstoppable "squall" or SHKVAL rocket torpedoes and regular 65
cm-diameter
wake-homing torpedoes, bottom-rising rocket-propelled mines, and
"obsolete"
warplanes converted into unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) firing
anti-ship missiles from standoff positions and finally dive-bombing
into the
heart of the US and UK aircraft carrier armada.
Missile barrage on advancing carrier battle groups
A few seconds after the "blackout", literally hundreds of short and
medium-range ballistic missiles (DF7/9/11/15s, DF4s, DF21X/As, some of
which
are maneuverable) pre-positioned on the Chinese mainland, and stealthy,
sea-skimming and highly-accurate cruise missiles (YJ12s, YJ22s,
KH31A/Ps,
YJ83s, C301s, C802s, SS-N-22s, SS-NX-26/27s, 3M54s & HN3s) delivered
from
platforms on land, sea and air race toward their respective designated
targets at supersonic speed.
Aircraft carriers are allotted a barrage of more than two dozen cruise
missiles each, followed by a barrage of short and medium-range
ballistic
missiles timed to arrive in rapid succession.
Supersonic cruise missiles constitute China's third deadly "trump card"
against the US - part of the so-called assassin's mace. These
unstoppable
cruise missiles may be armed with 440-lb to 750-lb conventional
warheads (or
200-kiloton tactical nuclear warheads 10 times stronger than Hiroshima)
traveling at more than twice the speed of sound (or faster than a rifle
bullet).
The cruise missiles, together with the SRBMs and MRBMs (short and
medium-range ballistic missiles) may also be armed with radio frequency
weapons that can simulate the electro-magnetic pulse of nuclear
explosions
to fry computer chips, or fuel-air explosives that can annihilate the
personnel in aircraft carriers and battleships without destroying the
platforms.
Their effective range varies from less than 100 to 1,800 kilometers
from
stand-off positions. Delivered by long-range fighter-bombers and
submarines,
their range can be extended even further. In fact, stealthy Chinese and
Russian submarines can deliver such nuclear payloads to the US mainland
itself.
No US defense vs supersonic cruise missiles
The US and UK aircraft carrier battle groups do not have any known
defense
against the new supersonic missiles of their adversaries. The Phalanx
and
Aegis ship defense systems may be effective against subsonic cruise
missiles
like the Exocets or Tomahawks, or exo-atmospheric ballistic missiles,
but
they are inadequate against the sea-skimming and supersonic Granits,
Moskits
and Yakhonts or similar types (Shipwreck, Sunburn and Onyx - North
Atlantic
Treaty Organization codenames) of modern anti-ship missiles in China's
inventory.
Not only China and Russia have these modern cruise missiles, so do
Iran,
India and North Korea. These missiles can be delivered by SU-27
variants,
SU-30s, Tu22M Blackjacks, Bears, J6s, JH-7/As, H-6Hs, J-10s, surface
ships,
diesel submarines or common trucks.
Adding to the problems facing aircraft carriers are the SHKVAL or
"squall"
rocket torpedoes installed in some Chinese and Russian submarines and
surface ships. At 6,000 lbs apiece, these torpedoes travel at 200 knots
(or
230 miles per hour) with a range of 7,500 yards guided by autopilot.
They
are designed to sink aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. Again,
it is
unfortunate for the US and UK to have no known or existing defenses
against
this new generation of rocket torpedoes.
China's sea mines
Complicating matters for the US aircraft carrier battle groups are the
hundreds of hard-to-detect, rocket-propelled, bottom-rising sea mines
that
are anchored and hidden on the sea bottom covering pre-selected battle
sites
in the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea designed to home in on
submarines and surface ships, particularly aircraft carriers.
These sophisticated sea mines (EM-52s) have been deployed by Chinese
and
Russian submarines before the missile attack on Taiwan in anticipation
of
the major event that is to follow.
Finally, in addition to all these asymmetric weapons, the US and UK
aircraft
carrier battle groups will have to contend with the thousands of
"obsolete"
Chinese fighter planes converted into unmanned combat aerial vehicles
(UCAVs) launching missiles at stand-off positions and finally diving
kamikaze-style into the heart of the carrier battle groups.
Chinese and Russian submarines fire their inventory of anti-ship cruise
missiles (ASCMs) and "squall" rocket torpedoes at the aircraft carriers
and
submarines of the US and UK as the carrier battle groups come within
range.
As the battle progresses, the Chinese and Russian submarines maneuver
to the
rear of the carrier battle groups to complete the encirclement.
In less than an hour after launching the saturation barrage of missiles
on
the US and UK naval armada, all the aircraft carriers and their escorts
of
cruisers, battleships and several of the accompanying submarines are in
flames, sinking or sunk, turning the East China Sea and the Philippine
Sea
into a modern-day "Battle of Cannae".
Meanwhile, the Chinese fleet that conducted a strategic retreat forms a
phalanx along the forward positions off China's coast, ready to augment
the
hundreds or thousands of land-based long-range surface-to-air missiles
of
China (SA-10s, SA-15s and SA-20s) with their own short, medium and
long-range air defense missile systems.
Applying its long-held military doctrine of "active defense", China
also
launches simultaneous missile attacks on the forces-in-being and
logistics-in-place of the US and its allies in Japan, South Korea,
Guam,
Okinawa, Diego Garcia and Kyrgyzstan, hitting these US bases with
missiles
armed with radio frequency weapons, fuel-air explosives and
conventional
warheads. As another Chinese military doctrine states: "Win victory
with one
strike."
Chinese and Russian missiles cocked
Both Chinese and Russian inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs),
submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and the two countries'
extensive air defense systems have been coordinated and ready to
respond in
the event that the US and UK decide to retaliate with a nuclear attack.
In addition, Ranets-E and Rosa-E radio frequency/electro-magnetic pulse
systems scattered all along China's coastal cities are on the look-out
to
neutralize incoming missiles and aircraft that may respond after the
attack
on the aircraft carrier battle groups. These systems can work in tandem
with
airborne-based anti-missile laser systems now in China's inventory.
China's trump cards vs the US
China's deadly "trump cards" (ie, the huge holdings of US Treasury
bonds,
the anti-satellite weapons system, the supersonic anti-ship cruise
missiles,
SRBMs, MRBMs, "squall" rocket torpedoes, sea mines, UCAVs, DF31A and
DF41
road-mobile ICBMs, JL2 SLBMs, air defense system, IO/EW/IW, and other
RMA
weapons) are the key ingredients of the assassin's mace.
China may not possess any of those expensive aircraft carriers of the
superpower, but it can wipe out those carrier battle groups with a
"single
blow" of its assassin's mace or shashaujian -its major tool for
conducting
asymmetric warfare to defeat the US in a major confrontation over the
Taiwan
issue or other issues.
The US may possess the most powerful war machine in the world, but it
can be
defeated by an inferior force by avoiding the superpower's strength and
exploiting its weaknesses. Again, an integral part of Chinese doctrine
is:
"Victory through inferiority over superiority." One famous Chinese
strategist, Chang Mengxiong, compared asymmetric warfare to "a Chinese
boxer
with a keen knowledge of vital body points who can bring a stronger
opponent
to his knees with a minimum of movement".
The sad part for the American people, particularly the innocent sailors
who
will be manning the battle groups, is that even if US planners come to
realize that the aircraft carrier battle groups (which are the mainstay
of
the US Navy and the main instrument of US power projection worldwide),
have
been rendered vulnerable or obsolete by China's assassin's mace.
The US cannot simply change strategy or discard such a weapons system.
To
change strategy or "retool" would mean wasting hundreds of billions of
dollars invested in those highly sophisticated systems. The strong
lobbying
of influential defense contractors making those systems would make
change
extremely difficult.
For defense authorities to admit the strategic blunder constitutes an
almost
insurmountable barrier to a change of strategy. And finally, the loss
of
hundreds of thousands of jobs related to those systems may be
politically
and economically unbearable for any US administration to bear should
the
program for the aircraft carrier battle groups be scrapped. Because of
these
factors, America may be stuck with an obsolete system that is too
expensive
to maintain but will only lose the war for the US when employed in a
major
conflict.
Meanwhile, on the Middle East Front
On another major front, on previously coordinated signals with China
and
Russia, Iran lets loose its own barrage of supersonic Granit, Moskit,
Brahmos and Yakhont cruise missiles carried by trucks or hidden in
man-made
tunnels all along the mountainous shoreline of Iran fronting the
Persian
Gulf.
The three US aircraft carrier groups that entered the Persian Gulf to
ensure
the unhindered flow of Arab oil are likely to be helpless "sitting
ducks"
against the bottom-rising sea mines and low-flying, supersonic
anti-ship
cruise missiles in Iranian hands. In the process, a couple of oil
tankers
about to exit the Strait of Hormuz are hit with the aid of
rocket-propelled
sea mines, thus effectively blockading the narrow strait and stopping
oil
supplies from coming out of the Middle East.
A "weak" nation like China or Iran, without a single aircraft carrier
in
their respective navies, could thus obliterate the carrier battle
groups of
a superpower. Here, one can see the hidden and often unnoticed power of
asymmetric warfare, which may well spell the end of "gunboat diplomacy"
in
the not so distant future.
The Central Asian front
On yet another major front in Central Asia, Russian troops lead the
other
member-countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO -
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) into a major offensive against
US
military bases in Central Asia.
The bases are first subjected to a simultaneous barrage of missiles
with
fuel-air explosives and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) warheads before
they are
overrun and occupied by SCO coalition forces. The missile attack on the
US
bases is followed by a lightning attack by four mechanized armored
divisions
coming from the Yili Korgas pass of China's Xinjiang province, linking
up
with Russia's own armored divisions in a pincer offensive against US
forces
in Central Asia and the Middle East.
America crippled on three major fronts
In just a few hours (or days) after the outbreak of general
hostilities,
America, the world's lone superpower, finds itself badly crippled
militarily
in three major regions of the world: East Asia, Central Asia and the
Middle
East.
Impossible? Unfortunately, the answer is no. China now has the know-how
and
the financial resources to mass-produce hundreds, if not thousands, of
Moskit, Yakhont and Granit-type supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles
and
"squall"-type rocket torpedoes against which US and UK aircraft
carriers and
submarines have no known defense.
Iran, on the other hand, already possesses the same supersonic cruise
missiles that can destroy any ship in the Persia Gulf, including
aircraft
carriers. Russia and China, meanwhile, are operating on familiar
grounds
close to their territory, compared to the US, which needs to cross the
Atlantic and Pacific to replenish troops and logistics.
A geopolitical reality America has to face
An important consideration in any US-China conflict is the geopolitical
reality that the US and its allies will be operating on exterior lines,
while China will operate on interior lines. This gives China a huge
advantage in a major war in Asia against US and allied forces.
Consider the long sea lanes of communication (10,000 kilometers) that
the US
alliance would be forced to cross each time its forces had to resupply
and
you get an idea of the huge logistics problem that the US would face in
a
confrontation with China.
Such lengthy sea lanes of communication (SLOC) are highly vulnerable to
a
gauntlet of Chinese and Russian submarines lying in ambush along the
route
laden with underwater sea mines. This will make transporting personnel
and
equipment by the US over the Pacific or the Atlantic extremely
dangerous and
expensive.
Compare this US handicap with troop movement by Chinese troops using
heavy-lift aircraft, railways and highways within the China mainland.
China's interior lines of communication are shorter and protected, with
little chance for enemy interdiction. Chinese troops can concentrate
numerically superior forces rapidly at any given point to defeat
invading US
forces one by one with much shorter and less vulnerable lines of
communication.
And in the event that the US forces and their allies are lucky enough
to
land on the Chinese mainland, they will be faced not only with a
conventional People's Liberation Army of more than 2 million, but also
with
a people's militia conducting asymmetric warfare and a people's war in
its
teeming millions. US forces and their allies will be like a raging bull
charging and goring a hive of killer bees. US forces may be able to set
foot
in China, but it is highly doubtful if they could come out alive.
Grimmer scenarios
There is a scenario grimmer than described above, however, and that is
if
strategic planners belonging to that elite group called the Project for
the
New American Century decide to launch a nuclear "first strike" against
China
and Russia and risk a mutually-assured destruction: 1)In defense of
Taiwan
... or 2) In launching a "preventive war" to stop China from catching
up
economically and militarily. Or, if China decides to start an offensive
against Taiwan with a one-megaton nuclear burst 40 kilometers above the
center of the island. Or, if China and Russia decide to arm a number of
their short and medium-range ballistic missiles and supersonic cruise
missiles with tactical nuclear warheads in defending themselves against
US
and UK aircraft carrier battle groups.
Land-attack versions of these supersonic cruise missiles armed with
nuclear
warheads carried by stealthy Chinese and Russian submarines can also
put
American coastal cities at great risk to nuclear devastation. Strategic
planners must also consider these worst-case possibilities.
Scenario two: America vs a medium power
"In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to
remain
the predominant outside power in the region and preserve US and Western
access to the region's oil." - Paul Wolfowitz
"I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly
to
become as strategically significant as the Caspian. But the oil and gas
there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both
political and economic sense is through Afghanistan." - Dick Cheney
in 1998
as chief executive of a major oil services company
History is replete with vivid examples where a much stronger and larger
force has been defeated by a weaker and smaller force. The French were
defeated by Vietminh guerrillas in Dien Bien Phu. Soviet Union forces,
still
a superpower at that time, were defeated in Afghanistan. And another
superpower, the United States, was defeated by "ill-clad, ill-fed and
ill-armed" Vietcong guerrillas in Vietnam.
Asymmetric warfare
If the US pushes through its plan of world domination, then it should
expect
all the smaller and weaker countries that do not wish to be pushed
around to
fight back using asymmetric warfare. This is a form of warfare that
allows
the weak to fight and defeat a much stronger foe by "attacking the
enemy's
weakness while avoiding his strengths".
The US, for instance, may possess the most sophisticated weapons system
on
Earth. It may have the most modern planes, helicopters, ships, guns,
precision-guided weapons, sophisticated sensors and command and control
systems, but if it cannot see its adversary, if it is fighting a
shadowy and
"invisible" enemy (like American and British forces are experiencing in
Iraq), such advanced and sophisticated weapons systems are rendered
useless.
In asymmetric warfare, most of the fighting is conducted at the team
level.
Thousands of agile and elusive teams consisting of two to five members
equipped with man-portable surface-to-air missiles, portable anti-tank
guided weapons, sniper rifles, man-portable mortars, anti-tank mines,
anti-personnel mines, sea mines, C4 explosives (for making car bombs,
booby-traps and improvised explosive devices or IEDs) riding on
bicycles and
motorcycles and fast boats will make the lives of any invading or
occupying
forces extremely miserable.
These "invisible" agile teams merge with the population most of the
time and
come out only when there is a vulnerable target to strike at. Then,
they
disappear into the shadows. They communicate via runners bringing coded
written messages, so there are no electronic signals to track down.
They
operate semi-autonomously, so there are no centers of gravity that can
be
targeted.
And since they are indigenous to the area and united with the local
people,
their human intelligence (humint) is far more superior to that of the
invaders. They will also enjoy a tremendous advantage in psychological
operations (psyops), for it is much easier to mobilize nationalist
sentiments against a foreign occupier than for an aggressor to justify
occupation.
Asymmetric warfare may be compared to a fierce lion invading the
territory
of a school of piranhas; or a king cobra encroaching into a colony of
fire
ants. The lion may be the king of beasts, mighty and strong, but it is
no
match against the tiny piranhas in their own territory. The sharp fangs
and
claws of the lion are rendered useless. The same is true with the
cobra's
venom. The analogy applies to the French in Dien Bien Phu, the Soviets
in
Afghanistan and the Americans in Vietnam and now in Iraq.
Asynchronous warfare
Aside from asymmetric warfare, weak nations fighting the strong can
also
avail themselves of asynchronous warfare. If a strong nation invades or
occupies a weak one, the weak bides its time before striking back. And
it
strikes at a time and place when and where the adversary least expects.
An example is Iraq. The underground resistance movement in Iraq may
recruit
Iraqi scientists or sympathetic scientists of other nationalities to
infiltrate the US (via the Mexican border, for instance) and
manufacture
dirty bombs as well as chemical and biological weapons inside the US.
Such
weapons may be brought to Washington and detonated in or near the US
Congress.
They could also hire a private plane, or buy one themselves, and use it
to
spread biological or chemical weapons they have manufactured in-country
over
New York or Washington. They can mail letters containing anthrax to key
offices of vital services all over the US and paralyze utilities and
other
government functions nationwide.
Or they can smuggle, say, the components of a hundred portable
surface-to-air missiles, assemble them in the US, and employ them
simultaneously in all of the major airports in America. Or they can
employ
those portable surface-to-air missiles to simultaneously target
American
airlines taking off or landing in different international airports all
over
the world.
Some major powers may pass on their research on RMA (revolution in
military
affairs) to the Iraqi resistance to be tested inside the US. These
weapons
include laser weapons, ultrahigh frequency weapons, ultrasonic wave
weapons,
stealth weapons, high-powered microwave weapons and electromagnetic
guns.
They include miniature robot ants that infiltrate computers, stay
dormant
and then activate on the signal to destroy their hosts. The Iraqi
underground could also recruit hackers to work inside and/or outside
the US
to hack into key US systems.
American crossroad
As the sole superpower, the US stands at a critical crossroad. One road
leads to world domination. Using its pre-eminent military war machine
without equal, it can strike at any perceived threat, change foreign
sovereign regimes at will, grab precious mineral resources anywhere in
the
world and control local economies with its host of transnational
corporations. It can also sabotage the economy of up-coming rivals, or
launch preventive wars to preempt prospective competitors and try to
defeat
them militarily while they are still weak compared to America.
Such a course of action is very tempting, especially to leaders with
global
ambitions of becoming "Lords of the Earth". But such a road is full of
risks
and what is planned on paper, as what was done in Iraq, may not turn
out as
hoped. And such a path will necessarily ignite the outrage of most
right-thinking people. America will earn for itself the enmity and
hatred of
people all over the world.
America had outlined its blueprint for world domination, by force if
necessary, in the following documents:
National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September
2001
President George W Bush's speech at the Graduation Ceremony at West
Point,
June 1, 2002
Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for the
New
Century, a report of the Project for the New American Century,
September
2000
Defense Planning Guidance written by then deputy defense secretary Paul
Wolfowitz in February 18, 1992
In these documents, the US outlined some of its new doctrines and
policies,
such as: preventive war, pre-emptive military action, unilateralism,
regime
change, acting as the world's constabulary or "cavalry", establishment
of
military bases and spreading US forces all over the world, control of
outer
space and the global commons of cyberspace and control of the world's
oil
resources.
The alternate road, on the other hand, leads to world leadership. The
US can
choose to use its power, wealth and influence to sincerely do good for
the
people on this planet. It can lead in easing or obliterating the debt
burden
of poor nations, or in promoting the spread of quality education
through
distance learning in remote villages of developing countries.
It can focus in the fight against poverty, or the fight against drugs,
or
the effort to save the deteriorating environment of planet earth. It
can
lead the fight against HIV/AIDS, or malaria and other deadly diseases.
The
whole world is waiting for the US to lead in these important battles.
If the US chooses to focus its huge resources on the latter, I am
confident
that it will gain the hearts and minds of people all over the world.
Then it
can be a true world leader. Then it can maintain its preeminent world
status. By gaining the world's sympathy and support, terrorism directed
against Americans and the US mainland will be greatly minimized. The
alternate road, in fact, is the key to defeating the phenomenon of
"terrorism" gripping the world today.
Victor N Corpus is a retired brigadier general. He has a master's
degree in
public administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. His major assignment while serving in the armed forces of
the
Philippines was as chief of the intelligence service.
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