- Finally, here it is - the Pentagon's road map to hell
and beyond which they are following right to the letter. Remember this
was written a couple years ago, so some of it has not happened as predicted
or planned. This piece taken straight from the mouthpiece of the pentagon,
speaks volumes.
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- Below is the basic text of a two hour lecture by Dr.
Barnett, last known to be aired from the pentagon on "American Perspectives"
last year. He is a political scientist who works for the pentagon. Incredibly
proud of promoting US global domination, he educates (ie., brainwashes)
all areas of the military about it.
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- If Barnett was born about 50 years earlier, Hitler would
have hired him in an instant.
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- It's all here and spelled out, straight from a pentagon
run .MIL website. Finally, those Americans and countless people in other
nations who are still asleep and un-informed, will FINALLY gain a real
understanding of:
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- * Why our men and women are NEVER coming home from the
mid-east
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- * Why war is planned to continue INDEFINITELY
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- * Why 9-11 happened and how the government gained from
it
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- * Why ALL the westernized countries MUST be conquered
and absorbed into "the core" and much more.
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- This piece should be required reading to wake anyone
up. NONE of this will EVER see the light of day on FOX, CNN or any other
mainstream news source. No one can read this, and think the occasional
administration's slip of the tongue about "the American Empire"
is not true.
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- Barnett's terminology is a bit unique. "The gap"
is codespeak for "those countries who are NOT under US control."
"The Core" is codespeak for those WHO ALREADY ARE UNDER US control.
Barnett all but comes out and states the government caused 9-11, as he
shows how the event will be used to promote and assist US global domination.
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- Without doubt, he proves that "The US has the best
enemies money can buy."
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- Ted Twietmeyer
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- The Pentagon's New Map
It Explains Why We're Going To War...And Why We'll Keep Going To War.
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
U.S. Naval War College
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- Since the end of the cold war, the United States has
been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world and a military
strategy to accompany it. Now there's a leading contender. It involves
identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them.
Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor of warfare analysis,
has been advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense and giving this
briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community.
Now he gives it to you.
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- Let me tell you why military engagement with Saddam Hussein's
regime in Baghdad is not only necessary and inevitable, but good.
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- When the United States finally goes to war again in the
Persian Gulf, it will not constitute a settling of old scores, or just
an enforced disarmament of illegal weapons, or a distraction in the war
on terror. Our next war in the Gulf will mark a historical tipping point
- the moment when Washington takes real ownership of strategic security
in the age of globalization.
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- That is why the public debate about this war has been
so important: It forces Americans to come to terms with I believe is the
new security paradigm that shapes this age, namely, Disconnectedness defines
danger. Saddam Hussein's outlaw regime is dangerously disconnected from
the globalizing world, from its rule sets, its norms, and all the ties
that bind countries together in mutually assured dependence.
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- The problem with most discussion of globalization is
that too many experts treat it as a binary outcome: Either it is great
and sweeping the planet, or it is horrid and failing humanity everywhere.
Neither view really works, because globalization as a historical process
is simply too big and too complex for such summary judgments. Instead,
this new world must be defined by where globalization has truly taken root
and where it has not.
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- Show me where globalization is thick with network connectivity,
financial transactions, liberal media flows, and collective security, and
I will show you regions featuring stable governments, rising standards
of living, and more deaths by suicide than murder. These parts of the world
I call the Functioning Core, or Core. But show me where globalization is
thinning or just plain absent, and I will show you regions plagued by politically
repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder,
and most important - the chronic conflicts that incubate the next generation
of global terrorists. These parts of the world I call the Non-Integrating
Gap, or Gap.
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- Globalization's "ozone hole" may have been
out of sight and out of mind prior to September 11, 2001, but it has been
hard to miss ever since. And measuring the reach of globalization is not
an academic exercise to an eighteen-year-old marine sinking tent poles
on its far side. So where do we schedule the U.S. militaryÅfs next
round of away games? The pattern that has emerged since the end of the
cold war suggests a simple answer: in the Gap.
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- The reason I support going to war in Iraq is not simply
that Saddam is a cutthroat Stalinist willing to kill anyone to stay in
power, nor because that regime has clearly supported terrorist networks
over the years. The real reason I support a war like this is that the resulting
long-term military commitment will finally force America to deal with the
entire Gap as a strategic threat environment.
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- FOR MOST COUNTRIES, accommodating the emerging global
rule set of democracy, transparency, and free trade is no mean feat, which
is something most Americans find hard to understand. We tend to forget
just how hard it has been to keep the United States together all these
years, harmonizing our own, competing internal rule sets along the way
through a Civil War, a Great Depression, and the long struggles for racial
and sexual equality that continue to this day. As far as most states are
concerned, we are quite unrealistic in our expectation that they should
adapt themselves quickly to globalization's very American-looking rule
set.
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- But you have to be careful with that Darwinian pessimism,
because it is a short jump from apologizing for globalization-as-forced-Americanization
to insinuating along racial or civilization lines that "those people
will simply never be like us." Just ten years ago, most experts were
willing to write off poor Russia, declaring Slavs, in effect, genetically
unfit for democracy and capitalism. Similar arguments resonated in most
China-bashing during the 1990's, and you hear them today in the debates
about the feasibility of imposing democracy on a post-Saddam Iraq - a sort
of Muslims-are-from-Mars argument.
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- So how do we distinguish between who is really making
it in globalization's Core and who remains trapped in the Gap? And how
permanent is this dividing line?
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- Understanding that the line between the Core and Gap
is constantly shifting, let me suggest that the direction of change is
more critical than the degree. So, yes, Beijing is still ruled by a "Communist
party" whose ideological formula is 30 percent Marxist-Leninist and
70 percent Sopranos, but China just signed on to the World Trade Organization,
and over the long run, that is far more important in securing the country's
permanent Core status. Why? Because it forces China to harmonize its internal
rule set with that of globalization and banking, tariffs, copyright protection,
environmental standards. Of course, working to adjust your internal rule
sets to globalization's evolving rule set offers no guarantee of success.
As Argentina and Brazil have recently found out, following the rules (in
Argentina's case, sort of following) does not mean you are panicproof,
or bubbleproof, or even recessionproof. Trying to adapt to globalization
does not mean bad things will never happen to you. Nor does it mean all
your poor will immediately morph into stable middle class. It just means
your standard of living gets better over time.
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- In sum, it is always possible to fall off this bandwagon
called globalization. And when you do, bloodshed will follow. If you are
lucky, so will American troops.
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- SO WHAT PARTS OF THE WORLD can be considered functioning
right now? North America, much of South America, the European Union, Putin's
Russia, Japan and Asia's emerging economies (most notably China and India),
Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa, which accounts for roughly
four billion out of a global population of six billion.
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- Whom does that leave in the Gap? It would be easy to
say "everyone else," but I want to offer you more proof than
that and, by doing so, argue why I think the Gap is a long-term threat
to more than just your pocketbook or conscience.
- If we map out U.S. military responses since the end of
the cold war, (see below), we find an overwhelming concentration of activity
in the regions of the world that are excluded from globalization's growing
Core - namely the Caribbean Rim, virtually all of Africa, the Balkans,
the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, and much
of Southeast Asia. That is roughly the remaining two billion of the world's
population. Most have demographics skewed very young, and most are labeled,
"low income" or "low middle income" by the World Bank
(i.e., less than $3,000 annual per capita).
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- If we draw a line around the majority of those military
interventions, we have basically mapped the Non-Integrating Gap. Obviously,
there are outliers excluded geographically by this simple approach, such
as an Israel isolated in the Gap, a North Korea adrift within the Core,
or a Philippines straddling the line. But looking at the data, it is hard
to deny the essential logic of the picture: If a country is either losing
out to globalization or rejecting much of the content flows associated
with its advance, there is a far greater chance that the U.S. will end
up sending forces at some point. Conversely, if a country is largely functioning
within globalization, we tend not to have to send our forces there to restore
order to eradicate threats.
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- Now, that may seem like a tautology in effect defining
any place that has not attracted U.S. military intervention in the last
decade or so as "functioning within globalization" (and vice
versa). But think about this larger point: Ever since the end of World
War II, this country has assumed that the real threats to its security
resided in countries of roughly similar size, development, and wealth in
other words, other great powers like ourselves. During the cold war, that
other great power was the Soviet Union. When the big Red machine evaporated
in the early 1990's, we flirted with concerns about a united Europe, a
powerhouse Japan, and most recently a rising China.
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- What was interesting about all those scenarios is the
assumption that only an advanced state can truly threaten us. The rest
of the world? Those less-developed parts of the world have long been referred
to in military plans as the "Lesser Includeds," meaning that
if we built a military capable of handling a great power's military threat,
it would always be sufficient for any minor scenarios we might have to
engage in the less advanced world.
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- That assumption was shattered by September 11. After
all, we were not attacked by a nation or even an army but by a group in
Thomas Friedman's vernacular Super Empowered Individuals willing to die
for their cause. September 11 triggered a system perturbation that continues
to reshape our government (the new Department of Homeland Security), our
economy (the de facto security tax we all pay), and even our society (Wave
to the camera!). Moreover, it launched the global war on terrorism, the
prism through which our government now views every bilateral security relationship
we have across the world.
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- In many ways, the September 11 attacks did the U.S. national-security
establishment a huge favor by pulling us back from the abstract planning
of future high-tech wars against "near peers" into the here-and-now
threats to global order. By doing so, the dividing lines between Core and
Gap were highlighted, and more important, the nature of the threat environment
was thrown into stark relief.
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- Think about it: Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are pure products
of the Gap in effect, its most violent feedback to the Core. They tell
us how we are doing in exporting security to these lawless areas (not very
well) and which states they would like to take "off line" from
globalization and return to some seventh-century definition of the good
life (any Gap state with a sizable Muslim population, especially Saudi
Arabia).
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- If you take this message from Osama and combine it with
our military-intervention record of the last decade, a simple security
rule set emerges: A country's potential to warrant a U.S. military response
is inversely related to its globalization connectivity. There is a good
reason why Al Qaeda was based first in Sudan and then later in Afghanistan:
These are two of the most disconnected countries in the world. Look at
the other places U.S. Special Operations Forces have recently zeroed in
on: northwestern Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen. We are talking about the ends
of the earth as far as globalization is concerned.
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- But just as important as "getting them where they
live" is stopping the ability of these terrorist networks to access
the Core via the "seam states" that lie along the Gap's bloody
boundaries. It is along this seam that the Core will seek to suppress bad
things coming out of the Gap. Which are some of these classic seam states?
Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan,
Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia come readily to mind.
But the U.S. will not be the only Core state working this issue. For example,
Russia has its own war on terrorism in the Caucasus, China is working its
western border with more vigor, and Australia was recently energized (or
was it cowed?) by the Bali bombing.
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- IF WE STEP BACK for a minute and consider the broader
implications of this new global map, then U.S. national-security strategy
would seem to be: 1) Increase the Core's immune system capabilities for
responding to September 11-like system perturbations; 2) Work the seam
states to firewall the Core from the Gap's worst exports, such as terror,
drugs, and pandemics; and, most important, 3) Shrink the Gap. Notice I
did not just say Mind the Gap.
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- The knee-jerk reaction of many Americans to September
11 is to say, "Let's get off our dependency on foreign oil, and then
we won't have to deal with those people." The most naive assumption
underlying that dream is that reducing what little connectivity the Gap
has with the Core will render it less dangerous to us over the long haul.
Turning the Middle East into Central Africa will not build a better world
for my kids. We cannot simply will those people away.
- The Middle East is the perfect place to start.
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- Diplomacy cannot work in a region where the biggest sources
of insecurity lie not between states but within them. What is most wrong
about the Middle East is the lack of personal freedom and how that translates
into dead-end lives for most of the population, especially for the young.
Some states like Qatar and Jordan are ripe for perestroika-like leaps into
better political futures, thanks to younger leaders who see the inevitability
of such change.
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- Iran is likewise waiting for the right Gorbachev to
come along if he has not already.
- What stands in the path of this change? Fear. Fear of
tradition unraveling. Fear of the mullah's disapproval. Fear of being labeled
a "bad" or "traitorous" Muslim state. Fear of becoming
a target of radical groups and terrorist networks. But most of all, fear
of being attacked from all sides for being different - the fear of becoming
Israel.
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- The Middle East has long been a neighborhood of bullies
eager to pick on the weak. Israel is still around because it has become
sadly one of the toughest bullies on the block. The only thing that will
change that nasty environment and open the floodgates for change is if
some external power steps in and plays Leviathan full-time. Taking down
Saddam, the region's bully-in-chief, will force the U.S. into playing that
role far more fully than it has over the past several decades, primarily
because Iraq is the Yugoslavia of the Middle East - a crossroads of civilizations
that has historically required a dictatorship to keep the peace. As baby-sitting
jobs go, this one will be a doozy, making our lengthy efforts in postwar
Germany and Japan look simple in retrospect.
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- But it is the right thing to do, and now is the right
time to do it, and we are the only country that can. Freedom cannot blossom
in the Middle East without security, and security is this country's most
influential public-sector export. By that I do not mean arms exports, but
basically the attention paid by our military forces to any region's potential
for mass violence. We are the only nation on earth capable of exporting
security in a sustained fashion, and we have a very good track record of
doing it.
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- Show me a part of the world that is secure in its peace
and I will show you a strong or growing ties between local militaries and
the U.S. military. Show me regions where major war is inconceivable and
I will show you permanent U.S. military bases and long-term security alliances.
Show me the strongest investment relationships in the global economy and
I will show you two postwar military occupations that remade Europe and
Japan following World War II.
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- This country has successfully exported security to globalization's
Old Core (Western Europe, Northeast Asia) for half a century and to its
emerging New Core (Developing Asia) for a solid quarter century following
our mishandling of Vietnam. But our efforts in the Middle Ease have been
inconsistent in Africa, almost nonexistent. Until we begin the systematic,
long-term export of security to the Gap, it will increasingly export its
pain to the Core in the form of terrorism and other instabilities.
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- Naturally, it will take a whole lot more than the U.S.
exporting security to shrink the Gap. Africa, for example, will need far
more aid than the Core has offered in the past, and the integration of
the Gap will ultimately depend more on private investment than anything
the Core's public sector can offer. But it all has to begin with security,
because free markets and democracy cannot flourish amid chronic conflict.
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- Making this effort means reshaping our military establishment
to mirror-image the challenge that we face. Think about it. Global war
is not in the offing, primarily because our huge nuclear stockpile renders
such war unthinkable for anyone. Meanwhile, classic state-on-state wars
are becoming fairly rare. So if the United States is in the process of
"transforming" its military to meet the threats of tomorrow,
what should it end up looking like? In my mind, we fight fire with fire.
If we live in a world increasingly populated by Super-Empowered Individuals,
we field a military of Super-Empowered-Individuals.
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- This may sound like additional responsibility for an
already overburdened military, but that is the wrong way of looking at
it, for what we are dealing with here are problems of success, not failure.
It is America's continued success in deterring global war and obsolescing
state-on-state war that allows us to stick our noses into the far more
difficult subnational conflicts and the dangerous transnational actors
they spawn. I know most Americans do not want to hear this, but the real
battlegrounds in the global war on terrorism are still over there. If gated
communities and rent-a-cops were enough, September 11 never would have
happened.
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- History is full of turning points like that terrible
day, but no turning-back-points. We ignore the Gap's existence at our own
peril, because it will not go away until we as a nation respond to the
challenge of making globalization truly global.
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- Handicapping the Gap
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- My list of real trouble for the world in the 1990s, today,
and tomorrow, starting in our own backyard:
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- 1) HAITI-- Efforts to build a nation in 1990s were disappointing.
We have been going into Haiti for about a century, and we will go back
when boat people start flowing in during the next crisis ,without fail.
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- 2) COLOMBIA -- Country is broken into several lawless
chunks, with private armies, rebels, narcos, and legit government all working
the place over. Drugs still flow. Ties between drug cartels and rebels
grew over decade, and now we know of links to international terror, too.
We get involved, keep promising more, and keep getting nowhere. Piecemeal,
incremental approach is clearly not working.
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- 3) BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA -- Both on the bubble between
the Gap and the Functioning Core. Both played the globalization game to
hilt in nineties and both feel abused now. The danger of falling off the
wagon and going self-destructively leftist or rightist is very real. No
military threats to speak of, except against their own democracies (the
return of the generals). South American alliance MERCOSUR tries to carve
out its own reality while Washington pushes Free Trade of Americas, but
we may have to settle for agreements with Chile or for pulling only Chile
into bigger NAFTA. Will Brazil and Argentina force themselves to be left
out and then resent it? Amazon a large ungovernable area for Brazil, plus
all that environmental damage continues to pile up. Will the world eventually
care enough to step in?
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- 4) FORMER YUGOSLAVIA-- For most of the past decade, served
as shorthand for Europe's inability to get its act together even in its
own backyard. Will be long-term baby-sitting job for the West.
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- 5) CONGO AND RWANDA/BURUNDI-- Two to three million dead
in central Africa from all the fighting across the decade. How much worse
can it get before we try to do something, anything? Three million more
dead? Congo is a carrion state, not quite dead or alive, and everyone is
feeding off it. And then there's AIDS.
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- 6) ANGOLA-- Never really has solved its ongoing civil
war (1.5 million dead in past quarter century). Basically at conflict with
self since mid-seventies, when Portuguese "empire" fell. Life
expectancy right now is under forty!
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- 7) SOUTH AFRICA-- The only functioning Core country in
Africa, but it's on the bubble. Lots of concerns that South Africa is a
gateway country for terror networks trying to access Core through back
door. Endemic crime is biggest security threat. And then there's AIDS.
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- 8) ISRAEL-PALESTINE-- Terror will not abate, there is
no next generation in the West Bank that wants anything but more violence.
Wall going up right now will be the Berlin Wall of twenty-first century.
Eventually, outside powers will end up providing security to keep the two
sides apart (this divorce is going to be very painful). There is always
the chance of somebody (Saddam in desperation?) trying to light up Israel
with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and triggering the counterpunch
we all fear Israel is capable of.
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- 9) SAUDI ARABIA-- The let-them-eat-cake mentality of
royal mafia will eventually trigger violent instability from within. o
Paying terrorists protection money to stay away will likewise eventually
fail, so danger will come from outside, too. Huge young population with
little prospects for future, and a ruling elite whose main source of income
is a declining long-term asset. And yet the oil will matter to enough of
the world far enough into the future that the United States will never
let this place really tank, no matter what it takes.
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- 10) IRAQ-- Question of when and how, not if. Then there's
the huge rehab job. We will have to build a security regime for the whole
region.
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- 11) SOMALIA-- Chronic lack of governance. Chronic food
problems. Chronic problem of terrorist-network infiltration. o We went
in with Marines and Special Forces and left disillusioned - a poor man's
Vietnam for the 1990s. Will be hard-pressed not to return.
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- 12) IRAN-- Counterrevolution has already begun: This
time the students want to throw the mullahs out. Iran wants to be friends
with U.S., but resurgence of fundamentalists may be the price we pay to
invade Iraq. The mullahs support terror, and their push for WMD is real:
Does this make them inevitable target once Iraq and North Korea are settled?
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- 13) AFGHANISTAN-- Lawless, violent place even before
the Taliban stepped onstage and started pulling it back toward seventh
century (short trip) Government sold to Al Qaeda for pennies on the dollar.
Big source of narcotics (heroin). Now U.S. stuck there for long haul, rooting
out hardcore terrorists/rebels who've chosen to stay.
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- 14) PAKISTAN-- There is always the real danger of their
having the bomb and using it out of weakness in conflict with India (very
close call with December 13, 2001, New Delhi bombing). Out of fear that
Pakistan may fall to radical Muslims, we end up backing hard-line military
types we don't really trust. Clearly infested with Al Qaeda. Was on its
way to being declared a rogue state by U.S. until September 11 forced us
to cooperate again. Simply put, Pakistan doesn't seem to control much of
its own territory.
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- 15) NORTH KOREA-- Marching toward WMD. Bizarre recent
behavior of Pyongyang (admitting kidnappings, breaking promises on nukes,
shipping weapons to places we disapprove of and getting caught, signing
agreements with Japan that seem to signal new era, talking up new economic
zone next to China) suggests it is intent (like some mental patient) on
provoking crises. We live in fear of Kim's G_tterd_mmerung scenario (he
is nuts). A Population deteriorating - how much more can they stand? After
Iraq, may be next.
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- 16) INDONESIA-- Usual fears about breakup and "world's
largest Muslim population." Casualty of Asian economic crisis (really
got wiped out). Hot spot for terror networks, as we have discovered.
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- New/integrating members of Core I worry may be lost in
coming year:
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- 17) CHINA-- Running lots of races against itself in terms
of reducing the unprofitable state-run enterprises while not triggering
too much unemployment, plus dealing with all that growth in energy demand
and accompanying pollution, plus coming pension crisis as population ages.
New generation of leaders looks suspiciously like unimaginative technocrats
- big question if they are up to task. If none of those macro pressures
trigger internal instability, there is always the fear that the Communist
party won't go quietly into the night in terms of allowing more political
freedoms and that at some point, economic freedom won't be enough for the
masses. Right now the CCP is very corrupt and mostly a parasite on the
country, but it still calls the big shots in Beijing. Army seems to be
getting more disassociated from society and reality, focusing ever more
myopically on countering U.S. threat to their ability to threaten Taiwan,
which remains the one flash point that could matter. And then there's AIDS.
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- 18) RUSSIA-- Putin has long way to go in his dictatorship
of the law; the mafia and robber barons still have too much power. Chechnya
and the near-abroad in general will drag Moscow into violence, but it will
be kept within the federation by and large. U.S. moving into Central Asia
is a testy thing - a relationship that can sour if not handled just right.
o Russia has so many internal problems (financial weakness, environmental
damage, et cetera) and depends too much on energy exports to feel safe
(does bringing Iraq back online after invasion kill their golden goose?).
And then there's AIDS.
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- 19) INDIA-- First, there's always the danger of nuking
it out with Pakistan. Short of that, Kashmir pulls them into conflict with
Pak, and that involves U.S. now in way it never did before due to war on
terror. o India is microcosm of globalization: the high tech, the massive
poverty, the islands of development, the tensions between cultures/civilizations/religions/et
cetera. It is too big to succeed, and too big to let fail. Wants to be
big responsible military player in region, wants to be strong friend of
U.S., and also wants desperately to catch up with China in development
(the self-imposed pressure to succeed is enormous). And then there's AIDS.
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- Web link to download this document:
- http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets
- /ThePentagonsNewMap.htm
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- Actual document is from:
- http://www.oft.osd.mil/initiatives/
- ncw/docs/The_Pentagon_s_New_Map.doc
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