We live in a time of unsuspected dangers....a time that requires attention and competence in the President.
There is neither at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
1. "General Chi Haotian is a general of the People's Liberation Army." Chi Haotian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. "The following is the actual text of a speech delivered in December, 2005 by Comrade Chi Haotian ¬the Vice-Chairman of China's Military Commission to top officers and generals.
Keep in mind that China has for many years advocated deceitful and covert warfare against its enemies....
'It is historical destiny that China and United States will come into unavoidable confrontation on a narrow path and fight....We still need America. Therefore, we must do everything we can to promote our relationship with America, learn from ... Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves.... It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century,..." Speech by Comrade Chi Haotian Vice-Chairman of*China's Military Commission
2. Having witnessed the how rapidly the United States defeated Iraq, the Chinese know that victory will not be attained through conventional warfare. Their intended path is known as "unrestricted warfare."
a. "Unrestricted Warfare (超限战, literally "warfare beyond bounds") is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by twocolonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良
and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means.... The novels Foreign Influence and Full Black by Brad Thor are based on this book." (A major source for this post) Unrestricted Warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
b. Surprise, deception, a warfare with no rules.
3. The life's-blood of our society is electricity. A primary target will be the electrical grids, and the Internet. There are those who attribute the 2003 blackout that hit eight states and parts of Canada, and some 55 million people, to Chinese hackers who managed to get into the US electrical power system, and installed software called Trojan horses, which they activated. A test for future attacks. "if there is a significant failure in the power grid caused by the attack, massive power outages could result, crippling industry, defense, medicine, and all other areas of life."
Ibid.
4. Another asymmetrical attack is via support of those who represent a change in cultural values to those that weaken America.
"'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia.... the diminished status of military service. "The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military servicehardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster," she says. "These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too. They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality." The Weekend Interview With Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues - WSJ.com
5. The obvious attempts to stall and block America's interests by actions at the United Nations.
6. Cornering and rigging markets for things America needs, such as oil and rare earth minerals.
7. Manipulating the value of the dollar, and influencing banking and the stock market.
"... in China, because the government constantly prints new currency and uses it to buy U.S. dollars and U.S. government debt, thereby flooding the market with Chinese currency and increasing demand for American dollars." China currency manipulation: How does it harm the U.S. and what can we do about it?
8. Attacking networks. Networks are increasingly important in not only data exchange but also transportation, financial institutions, and communication.
9. "Another famous instance of Unrestricted Warfare policy is terrorism. Terrorism is used by a group to gain satisfaction for certain demands. Even if these demands are not satisfied, a terrorist attack can have vastly disproportionate effects on national welfare. One only has to look at the economic crisis that followed the terrorist attacks against the United States, or the extensive security measures put in place after those same attacks.." Unrestricted Warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
10. "The wars of the future will require what most soldiers find themselves unprepared to do: to win the unconventional wars and the battles off the battlefield. From this point of view even Generals Powell, Schwarzkopf and Shalikashvili are not "modern" but rather traditional military men. There is a big gap between the conventional and the modern. A gap that can be bridged, but only by deep thinkers. What soldiers need to do now is to be military Machiavellis." PLA Senior Colonels on Strategy and Geopolitics: Unrestricted Warfare: Part IV
This is the bulletin-board quote for our time:
"....Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves.... It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans...."
Who we elect has a far more immediate effect on our lives than entitlements do.
Is the priority to be our lives and the lives of our loved ones, or our comforts and petty differences?
There is neither at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
1. "General Chi Haotian is a general of the People's Liberation Army." Chi Haotian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. "The following is the actual text of a speech delivered in December, 2005 by Comrade Chi Haotian ¬the Vice-Chairman of China's Military Commission to top officers and generals.
Keep in mind that China has for many years advocated deceitful and covert warfare against its enemies....
'It is historical destiny that China and United States will come into unavoidable confrontation on a narrow path and fight....We still need America. Therefore, we must do everything we can to promote our relationship with America, learn from ... Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves.... It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century,..." Speech by Comrade Chi Haotian Vice-Chairman of*China's Military Commission
2. Having witnessed the how rapidly the United States defeated Iraq, the Chinese know that victory will not be attained through conventional warfare. Their intended path is known as "unrestricted warfare."
a. "Unrestricted Warfare (超限战, literally "warfare beyond bounds") is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by twocolonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良
and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means.... The novels Foreign Influence and Full Black by Brad Thor are based on this book." (A major source for this post) Unrestricted Warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediab. Surprise, deception, a warfare with no rules.
3. The life's-blood of our society is electricity. A primary target will be the electrical grids, and the Internet. There are those who attribute the 2003 blackout that hit eight states and parts of Canada, and some 55 million people, to Chinese hackers who managed to get into the US electrical power system, and installed software called Trojan horses, which they activated. A test for future attacks. "if there is a significant failure in the power grid caused by the attack, massive power outages could result, crippling industry, defense, medicine, and all other areas of life."
Ibid.
4. Another asymmetrical attack is via support of those who represent a change in cultural values to those that weaken America.
"'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia.... the diminished status of military service. "The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military servicehardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster," she says. "These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too. They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality." The Weekend Interview With Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues - WSJ.com
5. The obvious attempts to stall and block America's interests by actions at the United Nations.
6. Cornering and rigging markets for things America needs, such as oil and rare earth minerals.
7. Manipulating the value of the dollar, and influencing banking and the stock market.
"... in China, because the government constantly prints new currency and uses it to buy U.S. dollars and U.S. government debt, thereby flooding the market with Chinese currency and increasing demand for American dollars." China currency manipulation: How does it harm the U.S. and what can we do about it?
8. Attacking networks. Networks are increasingly important in not only data exchange but also transportation, financial institutions, and communication.
9. "Another famous instance of Unrestricted Warfare policy is terrorism. Terrorism is used by a group to gain satisfaction for certain demands. Even if these demands are not satisfied, a terrorist attack can have vastly disproportionate effects on national welfare. One only has to look at the economic crisis that followed the terrorist attacks against the United States, or the extensive security measures put in place after those same attacks.." Unrestricted Warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
10. "The wars of the future will require what most soldiers find themselves unprepared to do: to win the unconventional wars and the battles off the battlefield. From this point of view even Generals Powell, Schwarzkopf and Shalikashvili are not "modern" but rather traditional military men. There is a big gap between the conventional and the modern. A gap that can be bridged, but only by deep thinkers. What soldiers need to do now is to be military Machiavellis." PLA Senior Colonels on Strategy and Geopolitics: Unrestricted Warfare: Part IV
This is the bulletin-board quote for our time:
"....Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves.... It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans...."
Who we elect has a far more immediate effect on our lives than entitlements do.
Is the priority to be our lives and the lives of our loved ones, or our comforts and petty differences?
