On the way to the demise of the U.S.of A.
Devvy Kidd, the inimitable researcher on NewsWithViews, reveals an excellent link to the problems with NAFTA, CAFTA and the NAU [North American Union].
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Beat our satellites, beat America
Paul brought this piece to my attention. You should also be aware. Thanks, Paul.
A MAGINOT LINE IN THE SKY [Chinese, Russian Capabiltity to Attack US Satellites]Read the original in the NY Post.Source: NY PostOctober 26, 2007 -- AFTER the carnage of the First World War, France responded to the horrors of trench warfare by building the ultimate trenches - the infamous Maginot Line, a system of almost 5,000 individual fortifications arrayed along hundreds of miles of front to a depth of 20 miles.
Published: Oct 26, 2007
Author: Ralph Peters
Only the Great Wall of China was longer - and the Maginot Line was vastly more complex. A marvel of military engineering, the problem was that it required an enemy who played by French rules.
What happened? Paris poured so much money and effort into its network of fortresses that the generals couldn't believe it wouldn't work - the Germans would simply have to behave as required.
The Germans didn't. France fell.
Now the United States sits in imagined security behind its own array of crucial strategic assets - our network of satellites.
Beat our satellites, beat us.
The Chinese know it. The Russians know it. And religious fanatics are bound to figure it out.
The Chinese are developing the capability to attack our satellite network; the Russians already have it - and terrorists would love to get it.
Over the years, a number of analysts, such as Lt.-Col. John A. Gentry (ret.) and Prof. William A. Wulf, have tried to raise the alarm about aspects of our "high-tech" Maginot Line - but the warnings never really stuck.
The ultimate vulnerability would come from a globe-spanning war with a power like China. Beijing has no intention of speeding out of its harbors to provide pop-up targets for the U.S. Navy. The Chinese are developing asymmetrical means to fight us on the broadest possible front - not least, striking our homeland in innovative ways.
Beijing has already tested an anti-satellite weapon, and it's honing its cyber-attack skills to interfere with satellite transmissions and data processing.
What happens if we lose key links in our satellite system? We lose our strategic early-warning capability. We lose our ability to track enemy movements. We lose our ability to communicate, from the dirty-boots level to the National Command Authority.
The Global Positioning System goes away. Most of our hyperexpensive weapons systems can't hit their targets - we lose the precision-guided bombs and cruise missiles without which the Air Force and Navy can no longer fight.
And that's just the military side of things. Try daily life without satellite communications.
The Pentagon's aware of this threat - but, like the interwar French military establishment, refuses to treat it with adequate seriousness: We've spent so much money on weapons and support systems that rely on satellites that we "just say no" when it comes to contemplating a war in which the crucial link in our arsenal goes away.
And satellites are the crucial link. Digitized information is to sophisticated 21st-century militaries what petroleum was to the armies of the last century. Turn off the tap, and the war machine grinds to a halt.
Despite some classified programs underway, we're basically counting on our enemies to play nice and leave our satellites unmolested. Well, good luck. Nor do those $100,000-a-page ads that defense contractors run in the print media (ultimately billed to you, the taxpayer) ever explain that the "Network-centric Warfare" they tout fades to black if the satellites go down.
And they're going to go down - unless we get serious, fast.
There are three basic ways to attack our satellite network: physical destruction or impairment of the satellites themselves, jamming the communications links and cyber attacks on the support and user networks (the latter would range from simply taking down sites to entering them and corrupting data - perhaps to the point of retargeting our weapons).
The Chinese and the Russians are working on all three approaches - counting on the synergies achieved to devastate our warfighting capabilities.
What are we doing about it? Buying more systems that rely on satellites to function.
We're so determined to lock this threat in the closet that we haven't even worked out the legal ramifications of an attack, physical or cyber, on our satellite networks. It might seem obvious to you and me that if a foreign power shot down or crippled one of our satellites, it would be an act of war.
But plenty of lawyers today would argue that space isn't U.S. territory and that such an attack falls into a gray area. Nonsense. The obvious legal precedent is the venerable rule that an attack on a U.S.-flagged ship on the high seas constitutes an act of war. But the primary purpose of lawyers today - including some in uniform - seems to be to argue the enemy's case.
What do we need to do? Three things:This issue is second in importance only to the nuclear threat at the height of the Cold War. Just as the French built their entire national defense around a single system, we're constructing the most complex and expensive military in history in a manner that relies on one vulnerable asset - the satellite.
- The president and Congress must publish a far-more-explicit "Satellite Security Doctrine" that makes it clear that a surprise attack on the U.S. defense satellite network will be treated not only as an act of war but also as a war crime - and that our response will be swift, asymmetrical and disproportionate.
- We need to concentrate far more defense dollars on protecting our satellites, rather than on fighter aircraft with no one to fight or the Rube Goldberg missile-defense system that we're determined to foist on the Poles and Czechs (and which relies on satellite communications).
- We need to declare a moratorium on the purchase of new military systems that depend on satellite links - until we can guarantee that those links will be preserved in wartime.
If you were America's enemy, would you charge out to take on our tanks, warships and aircraft?
Or would you rather paralyze them all?
Ralph Peters' latest book is "Wars of Blood and Faith."
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IS CHINA A THREAT?
By Geoff Metcalf
August 14, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
"All warfare is based on deception.” --Sun Tzu The recent Chinese refutation of speculation they intend to use a massive sell-off of U.S. dollar holdings is deception. It is at best disingenuous…at worst, classic Sun Tzu.
China has $1.3-Trillion in foreign exchange reserves and is the largest in the world. The presumption is that the bulk of those massive reserves is in U.S. dollars and represents a double edge sword of Damocles.
The Chicoms are not yet equal to the U.S. in military might (although they are intent at working their plan to correct that). However, as I have stated many times before, the future preparation of the battlefield by the communist Red Chinese will not consist of just rockets and bombs.
Recently, Britain’s The Daily Telegraph quoted Chicom economists as saying China would dump its dollar holdings if or when there were a trade war with Washington. That Scribean (or Machiavellian) slip of the tongue added significantly to the hinkiness on Wall Street already angst ridden by volatility in U.S. share markets.
The China threat is very real and in many ways far more dangerous and ominous that the contemporary dangers of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
• China intends to go to war with us eventually
o They have said so repeatedly.
o Their actions militarily and economically have been in support of their agenda.
• China is meticulously working their plan to correct their military and strategic deficiencies.
o China has control of the Panama Canal and both ends of the channel.
o China is routinely undermining US interests whenever and wherever they can.
o China’s satellite technology (abetted by the Clinton administration) is preparing for preparing the battlefield.
o China’s cyber warfare capacities are significant and growing.
o China has us by the short hairs over the value of the dollar and currency markets worldwide.
I have said it time, Again, Again, and will continue to beat the drum.
Washington has pointed to China's growing reserves as proof that the Chinese currency is undervalued, making Chinese exports cheap, putting American manufacturers at a disadvantage and compounding a hefty U.S. trade deficit. Recently there have been renewed calls by several U.S. senators to punish Beijing if it does not let the currency, the yuan, rise in value. We are being ‘rope-a-doped’ by Chicom money managers.
Communist China, has been, is, and will remain, an enemy of the United States.
Despite the occasion mixed or contradictory messages, China isn't really even being all that covert about their intentions anymore. China is an enemy because they say so.
Sun Tzu declared in "The Art of War," "Attack when they are unprepared, make your move when they do not expect it . . . So a military force is established by deception, mobilized by gain, and adapted by division and combination."
Confusius said, "If you know, to recognize that you know, if you don't know, to realize that you don't know: That is knowledge."
1. China has SAID intend to go to war with us ‘eventually’.
2. We know they have a stranglehold on our economic well being.
3. We know they have been and continue to build their military.
4. We know they have extended and developed significant strategic footholds beyond their territory.
5. We know they are increasing their satellite technology.
6. We know they are increasing their capacity to wage cyber war.
7. We know they have a plan and are working their plan.
Americans may want/need instant gratification. However, Asians tend to not only develop long-term plans — decade-long plans — they also actually work their plans…and China personifies that axiom.
Eventually, inevitably, failing some unlikely policy or political sea change, China will pick a fight with us. They are preparing . . . we are not.
• China intends to attack Taiwan if or when Taiwan attempts to declare independence.
• Within 15 years Communist China will control over 80 percent of the South China Sea.
• Within three years (2010) China will have a navy FIVE TIMES LARGER THAN OURS.
If you throw in the economic collapse card, mixed with a strategic biological attack, added to global isolation and trade sanctions, the U.S. would be S.O.L. (simply out of luck) when the Red Dragon decided to roll out the bombers and tanks.
Over a decade ago students at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, played out a ‘war game’ in a 2010 environment that resulted in the U.S. Seventh Fleet being crushed by China.
China IS a for-real, you damnbetcha threat.
© 2007 Geoff Metcalf - All Rights Reserved
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US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance
Paul Craig Roberts as usual tells it as it truly is:
This week the Russian and Chinese militaries are conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the military alliance.
This new potent military alliance is a real world response to neoconservative delusions about US hegemony. Neocons believe that the US is supreme in the world and can dictate its course. The neoconservative idiots have actually written papers, read by Russians and Chinese, about why the US must use its military superiority to assert hegemony over Russia and China.
Cynics believe that the neocons are just shills, like Bush and Cheney, for the military-security complex and are paid to restart the cold war for the sake of the profits of the armaments industry. But the fact is that the neocons actually believe their delusions about American hegemony.
Russia and China have now witnessed enough of the Bush administration's unprovoked aggression in the world to take neocon intentions seriously. As the US has proven that it cannot occupy the Iraqi city of Baghdad despite 5 years of efforts, it most certainly cannot occupy Russia or China. That means the conflict toward which the neocons are driving will be a nuclear conflict.
In an attempt to gain the advantage in a nuclear conflict, the neocons are positioning US anti-ballistic missiles on Soviet borders in Poland and the Czech Republic. This is an idiotic provocation as the Russians can eliminate anti-ballistic missiles with cruise missiles. Neocons are people who desire war, but know nothing about it. Thus, the US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war. However, US administrations after Reagan's have broken the agreements and understandings. The US gratuitously brought NATO and anti-ballistic missiles to Russia's borders. The Bush regime has initiated a propaganda war against the Russian government of Vladimir Putin.
These are gratuitous acts of aggression. Both the Russian and Chinese governments are trying to devote resources to their economic development, not to their militaries. Yet, both are being forced by America's aggressive posture to revamp their militaries.
Americans need to understand what the neocon Bush regime cannot: a nuclear exchange between the US, Russia, and China would establish the hegemony of the cockroach.
In a mere 6.5 years the Bush regime has destroyed the world's good will toward the US. Today, America's influence in the world is limited to its payments of tens of millions of dollars to bribed heads of foreign governments, such as Egypt's and Pakistan's. The Bush regime even thinks that as it has bought and paid for Musharraf, he will stand aside and permit Bush to make air strikes inside Pakistan. Is Bush blind to the danger that he will cause an Islamic revolution within Pakistan that will depose the US puppet and present the Middle East with an Islamic state armed with nuclear weapons?
Considering the instabilities and dangers that abound, the aggressive posture of the Bush regime goes far beyond recklessness. The Bush regime is the most irresponsibly aggressive regime the world has seen since Hitler's.
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UNCOMFORTABLE FACTS IN EVIDENCERead the original NewsWithViews article by LtCol Metcalf.
July 9, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
Geoff Metcalf
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” --Bertrand Russell
The United States faces two significant growing threats to national security that are compounded and enabled by the lack of courage and commitment of our leadership.
• Communist Red China is a for real threat.
o The US has raised concerns with the Chinese government about the discovery of Chinese-made weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Read]
o New Chicom Nuclear Sub [Read]
• Islamic terrorists are a for real threat. [Read]
In the British "Observer" of July 2, 2007, a former terrorist, Hassan Butt, looked at the terrorism problem from experience as an insider.
“I remember how we used to laugh whenever people on TV proclaimed that the cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombing, and 7/7, was Western foreign policy. What this does is help to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence : Islamic theology.” According to a one time terrorist, the problem of Islamic terrorism is Islamic theology.
“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all MidEast terrorists are certain to be Muslims. So if Islam produces them, then Islam is the problem. This is the great fact that the world needs to recognize to make any progress in stopping terrorism, which will eventually mean catastrophic destruction of cities including ours.” Gee, I know talk show hosts who have been fired for saying what a former terrorist acknowledges as an empirical axiom.
The Islamic radicals are taught that a reclassification of globe as a Land of War (Dar ul-Harb) actually allows any Muslim to annihilate the five rights every human is supposed granted under Islam. Anything goes in jihad. Treachery, cowardice, attacking civilians are not only allowed, but required.
So-called ‘moderate Muslims’ face a classic ‘catch-22’. The solution to their dilemma (and ubiquitous bad public relations) is to revise the Koran, but that is not doable given the mandate to interpret the Koran literally. The logical solution (not than anyone is inclined toward logic) is to discredit the philosophy of Islam. However the inherent problem for ‘peaceful Muslims’ is there is no foundation in the Koran for condemning violence.
There are clear and present facts in evidence which contradict opinions and prejudices. Islam as a ‘peaceful’ religion is tainted by obstinate facts. Fourteen centuries of brutal, imperialistic conquering focused on the establishment of a superanational Muslim world order, and obligation to impose Shari’a totalitarianism is a tough nut to ignore…and yet that seems the obligation. “By refusing to challenge centuries-old theological arguments, the tensions between Islamic theology and the modern world grow larger every day.” Butts said.
If or when anyone dares to introduce facts into the discussion they are immediately attacked as purveyors of ‘hate speech’. BULLFEATHERS! The Emperor has no clothes…
• Michael Graham was run out of WMAL, D.C. by the radical apologists at CAIR.
• I was attacked (on the same station) for quoting the Koran. “…believers in Islam are not required to tell infidels, and that's us, the truth. So they apparently have permission to lie when it is appropriate." In its press release, CAIR did not refute the substance of my comments, but called on area Muslims to exert pressure regarding "the incitement of anti-Muslim hatred caused by its talk show hosts."
• Cal Thomas was recently attacked by CAIR. "But guys like [Cal] Thomas come along and want to say every Muslim should be suspect and should be treated in a certain way. That's not just and that's not the American way," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said.
No, it is not the American way…but it IS for sure the CAIR way. Hassan Butt is right when he says, “if Islam produces them, then Islam is the problem.”
However, the simple logic of the former terrorist is anathema to the politically correct dogma and to myopic policy wonks.
Unable to refute facts that contradict the preconceived, opinion and prejudice, the p.c. carcinogen is censoring purveyors of facts (see ‘Muzzling Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer.
The obvious collorary to Butt’s axiom is if Islam produces terrorists…it is Islam’s responsibility to fix the problem. But they can’t and won’t. What to do…what to do?
It is not hate speech to repeat words and dogma of a protagonist. It is not hate speech to point out glaring hypocrisy. It is not hate speech to expose purveyors of for real hate speech.
Thomas Fuller once observed, “If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.” Duh!?!?! Likewise, we should not enable evil by restricting the disinfectant quality of sunlight.
© 2007 Geoff Metcalf - All Rights Reserved
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STRATEGIC NIGHTMARE
By Geoff Metcalf
June 18, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreter of their thoughts.” --John Locke
Communist China, has been, is, and will remain an enemy of the United States.
This is not right wing knuckle dragging sophistry…it is so because China says it is so.
I have been writing and grousing about the China Threat for over a decade. I have interviewed dozens of experts and collected significant documentation and empirical facts which clearly indicate, China means us harm. All the diplomatic spin about Chicoms as strategic trading partners offering a vast potential consumer market for us to exploit is bullfeathers. State Department erotic dreams of regime change through inertia is criminally myopic.
Murphy’s Law dictates, “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.” Add to that Hanlon’s razor, a corollary of Finagle’s Law, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
A recent British ‘Telegraph’ article read, ‘America prepares for cyber war with China.’ [Read] It is about time.
Cyberspace is the significant area of operation for preparation of any future conventional or nuclear battlefield. China isn’t even being covert about their intentions anymore.China is an enemy because THEY SAY SO. [Read]
Everything China has done, and is doing, is in preparation for what they are planning…and they are planning (according to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, “for war with the United States”).
I have previously observed that a nightmare strategic scenario would be this:
* The United States is up it’s hips in alligators in the Mideast. That has happened.
* We are militarily engaged in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Israel et al. We are on the way to that sad reality.
* North Korea rolls south to ‘unify’ the Koran peninsular.
* And/Or China executes their established plans for retaking Taiwan. We know their plans because they gave them to us (correctly presuming our CIA would muck up any intelligence gathering effort).
What do we do? Except for issuing a sternly worded snotty memo, and empty threats of nebulous economic sanctions, there isn’t a lot we CAN do.
Sun Tzu declared in The Art of War, “Attack when they are unprepared, make your move when they do not expect it… So a military force is established by deception, mobilized by gain, and adapted by division and combination.”
Hell-o!?!?
The recent focus on cyber war isn’t all that surprising. In fact, cyber warfare and attacks on satellite are inevitable.
Preparation of the battlefield is a military axiom. Roman legions used flaming oil thrown from catapults. English archers attrited French forces at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day. Mustard gas was used in WWI. Artillery was used in WWII and still is an accepted standard. ‘Smart’ bombs with GPS and laser guidance have improved battlefield efficiencies.
Given the ubiquitousness of computers and their increased role in everything from intelligence gathering to fire direction control and navigation, it is a given that in future armed conflicts generals are going to focus on defending and destroying computers and satellites.
The 2007 Chinese budget marked an increase of $6.84 billion over last year. China's 2.3 million-strong military is the world's largest. The Pentagon believes China is sandbagging and its military spending may be much greater since the announced budget didn't include weapons purchases and other key items.
Six years ago [Read] it was noted that China was developing cyber warfare capabilities that could put at risk the computer networks that the US military increasingly relies on for its operations.
Air Force General Ralph Eberhart, who was head of the US Space Command, said (six years ago) the US military was concerned about China’s focus on developing the means to carry out computer network attacks. "We see this in terms of capabilities we know they have, we see this written in their doctrine, we see this espoused by their leadership,'' he told defense reporters six years ago.
We know what China's intentions are. There is a compendium of books crystallizing the growing, inevitable, significant 'China Threat'.
* The China Threat by Bill Gertz
* Hegemon: China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World by Steven Mosher
* The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein
* Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America by Qiao Liang
* China: The Gathering Threat by Constantine C. Menges
* Red Dragon Rising: Communist China's Military Threat to America by Edward Timperlake
A ‘metsubishi’ is a martial arts technique of using blinding powders or even just distracting an opponent to anticipate an attack ‘here’ when you really hit them ‘there.’
Unless or until the U.S. acknowledges the Chicoms are not our friends and DO intend to harm us, we remain vulnerable to a catastrophic ‘metsubishi’ from the China Threat.
© 2007 Geoff Metcalf - All Rights Reserved
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