« THE ART OF WAR »
by Manlio Dinucci
At first glance, it
reads like the script for a Hollywood catastrophe movie. And yet it's one of
the scenarios that is actually being considered in the official 2018 report by
the Commision, tasked by the United States Congress with studying the national
defense strategy - « In 2019, on the basis of fake news announcing atrocities
committed against Russian citizens in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Russia
invades these countries. While US and NATO forces prepare to respond, Russia
declares that an attack against its forces in these countries would be viewed
as an attack on Russia itself, and
considers a nuclear riposte. Russian submarines attack transatlantic optical
fibre cables, and Russian hackers cut the electrical networks in the USA, while
Russian military forces destroy US military and commercial satellites. The
major citites of the United States are paralysed, since the Internet and
cell-phones are rendered inoperative ».
The bipartisan
Committee, composed of six Republicans and six Democrats, are looking at a
similar scenario in Asia - in 2024, China stages a surprise attack and occupies
Taiwan, and the United States are unable to intervene in a cost-effective manner,
because Chinese military capacities have
continued to grow, while those of the USA have stagnated due to insufficient
military spending.
« These scenarios –
explains the Commission - exemplify the fact that the security and the
well-being of the United States are in greater danger than they have been for
the last few decades ». Since the Second World War, « the United States have
guided the construction of a world of unusual prosperity, freedom and security.
This development, from which it has benefited enormously, has been made
possible by the unequalled military might of the United States ».
For the moment,
however, their military power - « the backbone of world influence and the
national security of the USA » - has eroded to a dangerous level. This is due
to the fact that « concurrent
authoritarian forces - especially China and Russia – are in the process
of seeking regional hegemony and the means with which to project their power on
an international scale ». This would be a tragedy of unimaginable dimensions,
but perhaps terrible – warns the Commission – if the United States should allow
their own national interests to be compromised by a lack of the will to make «
hard choices and the necessary investments ». They therefore propose an
ulterior increase of US military
spending (which today is already equivalent to a quarter of the federal budget)
of between 3 and 5 % annually – particularly to increase the deployment of US
forces (submarines, strategic bombers, long-range missiles) in the Indo-Pacific
region, where « four or five of our adversaries are active - China, North
Korea, Russia and terrorist groups, (the fifth being Iran) ».
The strategic vision
which emerges from the Congressional report – even more worrying when we note
that the Commission is composed of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats –
leaves no room for doubt. The United States – which, since 1945, has provoked
wars causing between 20 and 30 million deaths (plus the hundreds of millions
caused by the indirect effects of these wars) to « guide the construction of a
world of unusual prosperity, freedom and security, from which it has benefitted
enormously » is now preparing to do anything necessary to maintain its «
unequalled military power » upon which their empire is founded, but which is
now beginning to crumble with the emergence of a multipolar world.
For this purpose, the
Congressional Commission is examining scenarios of aggression against the
United States, which are no more than the mirror image of their own aggressive strategy,
which runs the risk of dragging the world into catastrophe.
Translator : Pete
Kimberley
Source: Réseau Voltaire
NO WAR NO NATO
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video in the making
video in the making
Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018.
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