“What, General, makes you think that this won’t awaken that sleeping giant once again to unleash its wrath on us? Bear in mind that they still have a considerable nuclear force and rocketry to deliver it? This is insanity.”
“The America of today is not the America of seventy-five years ago. The American man on the street does not comprehend realpolitik. The American government has historically been dishonest with its people. Administration after administration has adequately failed to explain the fundamentals of their foreign policy. Their foreign policy changes with every change in the administration. Indeed, they deliberately shield the facts from the people for political gain. While the politicians profess democracy and freedom, particularly in the Middle East, they have supported repressive regimes. Their hypocrisy is overwhelming and is not lost on the rest of the world, but not appreciated by the American public. They hope to control events without explaining the forces that create such events. Academics, journalists and comedians across America are left to espouse their views on foreign policy to fill that void. Fortunately, much of academia is very anti-war, social welfare and liberally oriented. They, academia, in conjunction and supported by socialistic elitists and especially by the media moguls and Hollywood, are a reflection of the perspective of the British politicians between 1918 and 1935. In that period, they disarmed, refused to establish their leadership role in the world, engaged in self-delusion and dreams of economic prosperity. America has done much the same since the end of what they call the ‘Cold War.’”
“Please elaborate, Comrade General.”
“Basically, the American man on the street, particularly the well-to-do, the middle of the middle class and the upper middle classes, see their primary issues as domestic ones, of economic and social improvements in their society. With occasional blips, American politicians in both major parties have been moving towards a socialist society. Government provided services have dramatically increased since the 1960s. In that time frame, increased social welfare was a means of buying off the support of the American people for an unpopular war in Vietnam. It did not work, but the American lower class certainly liked the carrot of welfare. Their politicians found they could buy votes by promising to feed the masses at the public trough. Now, they even provide school clothes for the lower classes, along with free medical care, housing, food in the form of redeemable coupons called food stamps, and unlimited health care for the elderly. Many of these things our government provides, but the Americans do it while accumulating individual wealth. Consequently, they have difficulty in paying for all of these programs. What they do is simply print more paper money, backed by nothing more than the world’s faith in it. Their economic system of a floating currency with constant inflation at varying rates will be their downfall. They are a tremendous debtor nation. The day is not far off when they will not be able to pay their debts, their bonds and loans. All they can do is print more paper money.
“Another factor in our favor is that America’s population is skewed towards middle age and the elderly. They cannot maintain adequate military forces through volunteers and refuse to reinstate conscription. Indeed, of the Anglo-Americans, they are seriously obese and not physically very strenuous or athletically inclined anyway. The Europeans call America ‘the land of the pigs’ behind their backs because so many of their young and middle-aged middle class are so fat. Conscription would be political suicide for any of their politicians. They would never be re-elected. This is why so many of their soldiers are foreign born. Their politicians do not explain any of this to the American people. Rather, they continue to increase their national debt. Now, that has come to haunt them, really overwhelm them. Their politicians reduce defense expenditures to buy votes by providing more and more welfare services. The very rich get richer, the middle class is terribly squeezed economically, and the lower class grows by leaps and bounds.
“What they call the baby boomers are now retired and expecting many social services. This places a tremendous drain on their economy. Out of a nation of three hundred million people, an estimated forty million are aged sixty-five are older. That is closing on fifteen percent of their population. They expect full health care at government expense through their MEDICARE and MEDICAID programs. This is not only for the treatment of acute diseases, but chronic diseases and long term institutionalized geriatric care, what they call ‘assisted living.’ Their families warehouse them at government expense. This number will double by the year 2042, if not sooner. We, on the other hand, have made the difficult choice to limit medical care provided to the elderly and those in the advanced stages of AIDS. We simply cannot afford to squander medical resources on those who no longer contribute to our society.
“These elitists and academics believe all that is necessary for defense is information technology and management, allowing them to control weapons from afar, especially via satellites. This is an outgrowth of what their political scientists and some military chiefs call their Revolution in Military Affairs. They see little need for large land forces and only marginal requirements for naval forces. Incredibly, they somehow believe that you should be able to wage war without bloodshed. Of course, this is nonsense, but you will recognize the fact that they have forced the Department of Defense to squander precious resources on the research and development of non-lethal weapons. Unbelievably, they have appointed their most efficient and aggressive organization, the United States Marine Corps, as the lead agency in research and development of non-lethal weapons. The elitists think war is a game. The Marine Corps does more than twenty-five percent of their defense mission, such as it is, on ten percent of their Department of Defense budget. Not only are they unwilling to accept their own casualties, but they believe you should not harm any of the enemy either.
“Many of these elitists are not nationalists but consider themselves as internationalists. They do not profess any significant loyalty to the United States. They claim, rather, that the entire world should be considered as one nation. The environmentalists are also very supportive of this point of view, and the two groups, the environmentalists and the advocates of a New World Order, are very overlapping, with most of each group belonging to the other. Hollywood is a tremendous psychological factor in this respect. Most of the prominent American movie stars belong to this movement and have provided us with a tremendous psychological edge over their fans, especially people between the ages of ten and forty. They have been taught by Hollywood that they, the elitists, are too good to serve in their armed forces. Their attitude is the same as expressed in the days of their Vietnam conflict. Let some other mothers’ sons serve. Not my son! They have no patriotism. Very few members of the American Congress have ever served in their armed forces. They have no personal experience to draw upon. Only for their Air Force do they see significant requirements. At one time, politicians wearing the US Air Force blue uniform had so brainwashed some of their congressmen, that those congressmen actually thought the US did not need a navy or land force. They thought only air power was necessary and could accomplish all missions. Again, this is what the British thought in 1918. The military revolution at that time consisted of the tank, the airplane, and field radio. Britain thought they could control ground forces from the air. Americans should have learned otherwise from Vietnam. They did not. They repeated this again in the Balkans. Of course, after the Balkans affair of the 1990s, that view was somewhat modified. Even now, they define air power essentially as the Space Command with the United States Air Force.
“We owe a great deal to the United States Air Force. For the last decade, they have convinced their American Congress of the superiority of their needs and assets over the other branches of the armed forces. With the budget constraints imposed upon them, the micromanagement by Congress, the attitude of the politicians to ‘protect the defense jobs in my district,’ whether or not they are necessary for defense, is practiced by virtually all members of the American Congress. The Air Force, and to a lesser extent the Navy, have the high value technological weapons systems that result in high paying jobs in their design and building. Deploying them is something else. The Americans, however, have reduced their military manpower as one means of funding these expensive weapons. Technology is worthless without people who have the knowledge and skills to use it. They do not retain their skilled people in the military due to micromanagement by careerist superiors, overburdening workloads, that is, do more with fewer resources, extended overseas assignments and lower compensation than the civilian markets.
“The less technical forces, the Army, the US Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard, are woefully unprepared to interfere with our plans. By purchasing very expensive highly technical weapons, especially planes and satellites, they can buy fewer of them. When these high value weapons systems are attrited, they have nothing left. The Americans today believe that mass is no longer a principle of war. Ironically, some Congressmen might look at our endeavors with a concealed glee.”
“Why, Comrade General, would they consider such plans as you have proposed with glee?”
“They would rejoice because of the destruction, or at least the interruption of, competition in heavy manufacturing. The American steel and metals industries have suffered for decades from cheap, competitive imports. Americans do not even manufacture their own clothes or footwear. We manufacture most of these items for them. Most of their consumer electronics goods are made overseas or are assembled overseas from parts manufactured in a variety of countries. By the mid 1980s, over 40% of the electronic components of American weapons systems were manufactured overseas. Today, that is much closer to 80%. We manufacture a great deal of them ourselves, as subcontractors for the major American defense companies. In point of fact, we manufacture the great majority of the computers in use in the United States, at all levels, from home use through the highest Department of Defense supercomputers. These people would see the possibility of a return of heavy manufacturing to the United States, especially steel, automobiles, appliances, and others. This translates into jobs in their sagging economy. In the 1980s, American economic theorists surmised that their economy would shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. They were right in that regard, but they were wrong in the outcome. They predicted the service economy would be more than capable of providing adequate employment for all. Indeed, they even predicted that more jobs would be created than there are workers to accept them. We all know that this turned out not to be the case. In the 1990s, service jobs began to migrate in large numbers from America to overseas locations as well. Financial services, communications, and processed foods were especially affected. Many of them went to our province of Taiwan, our Southeast Asian neighbors, Central and South America and their offshore islands. Labor is cheaper there, even for service employment.
“There is one other interesting psycho-social factor that is now being expressed by a few minor sociologists and psychologists in the United States. They have begun to ask: for what will America fight? Americans are no longer tied to the land, with the great majority of Americans now in urban and suburban environments. They have no allegiance to anything higher than their own materialism and economic well-being. Some of the more adventurous political scientists in the United States are even predicting a breakup of their country along regional-economic and racial lines in less than fifty years, perhaps much sooner than that. Already, strains of regional conflict are evident and growing if one cares to carefully look for them.”
“Comrade General, you do not see this as potentially devastating the American market for our goods? You know they are by far our biggest market. We must not do anything at all which will disrupt our trade with the Americans.”
“Comrade, where will they go? They have few other places to trade for even their basic needs other than food. Europe? Europe is hardly in a position to complain or to take our place. They are almost as reliant upon us Asians as the Americans are. South America? Half of South America is in the hands of drug lords who employ private armies to grow, refine and transport drugs for the American and European markets. With South America’s growing population, they are more concerned with growing food than manufacturing. Many of the South American countries are suffering borderline instability. Several of their national governments are expected to collapse within the next few years. None have significant military resources. No, it will take years for America to restore their manufacturing capacity. In the interim, they have no choice but to continue to trade with us. By the time they even make the decision as to how to respond, our endeavors will be over. No doubt that a great public debate will occur as to how to best approach the situation. It would not be unreasonable to expect demonstrations, even riots in the streets of America. America is no longer a unified country. They have many cultural centers, many beliefs, and now many histories and languages. There are no longer any unifying factors in the United States. The current political leadership is far less decisive than in the recent past.
“Even if the Americans choose to militarily respond, they have few forces capable of doing so, at least as regards to our main objectives. After the Americans left Iraq in 2005, so many of their military personnel, especially in their Reserve and National Guard units, left their armed forces that they have not been able to reconstitute their reserves. The majority of personnel that remained in the armed forces are, for the most part, considered to be of mediocre quality, and they are stretched very thin in their current commitments. That is not to mean that they don’t have some quite brilliant people; they do, but the mass of enlisted personnel is not of the same quality. Their only significant option is nuclear, and they will not let that genie out of the bottle. No, Comrade, the Americans will realize they have no choice and acquiesce to our strategic plans. After all, this momentous effort will guarantee us the resources we so very much require in order to continue trade with both America and Europe. If America goes to war outside its own borders again, it is as likely to go to the aid of Israel as anywhere. I shouldn’t even mention the threat that an unstable Mexico poses. The Americans made a secret treaty with the Israelis to come to their aid if the Egyptians and other Arab countries attacked them when they reduced their foreign aid program to both nations.
“What, Comrade Commissar, will be the decisive factors in America not resisting us are, first and most importantly, the lack of a national will and secondly, the inability to adapt to our countermeasures to their supposed technological superiority. In fact, we are very close to them in the technological aspects of their concept of the Revolution in Military Affairs. We can already easily counter their technological weapons, neutralize them, so to speak, today.
“Another subtle but very significant factor occurring in American society is what they call the cultural war. Indeed, that is what it is, with political overtones. The American middle class is the primary tax paying class and has some religious beliefs and values. The elitists, of whom I just spoke, do not necessarily share that middle class value system. This class war is sometimes expressed as political correctness. The elitists have been, for years, attempting to remold American society through legislation and the courts as they think it should be. In so doing, they are attacking the religious, cultural and economic bases of the middle class. As one banker put it in economic terms, ‘The rich and the poor gang up on the middle class to pay the taxes. The rich aren’t going to pay them, and the poor cannot.’ It is most evident when their movie stars make forty million dollars a motion picture, while an average family struggles trying to pay all the bills on thirty thousand dollars a year and cannot afford health insurance. The parallels between the United States today and Rome in its last few decades are amazing.”
“Comrade General, will this plan not unite Islam against us?”
“No, Comrade Commissar Chen, I do not believe it will. In fact, I anticipate that it will initially unite the Muslim world behind us. Islam is not a cohesive force. There are many sects, and the major divisions of Sunni and Shiite revile each other. Only three things tend to unite Islam. The first is the perceived threat that western cultural values have upon Islam. The second is a united hatred of Israel. Third is their hatred of Russia. To a lesser extent, is the belief held by many older Muslims, especially in Europe and America, that although they are not ready to take up the sword, so to speak, that no religion other than Islam should exist on the planet. I would point out that the Madrassas, funded throughout the world by the Saudis, have taught that there are three demons, Jews, America, and Russia. The nations of Southwest Asia have no economies other than the export of petroleum. They are being overwhelmed by their own population growth. Saudi Arabia’s population growth exceeds 3.5% a year. Over 50% of the population of the Muslim Middle East is less than twenty years of age. They have little education outside of the Madrassas and no jobs. Our surreptitious funding of militant Islamic groups through various front organizations has bought us temporary friends. They have used these resources to wage guerilla warfare against Russia, against the Hindus of India and Kashmir. The resources that we have provided have been much too modest to be any significant factor in resisting us.”
“As you pointed out, General, the Mongol invaders of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries slaughtered Muslims by the millions. Will they not regard this invasion in the same light?”
“That is possible, Comrade Commissar Chen, but I do not think so. The Central Asian Republics are composed of diverse peoples, Mongols, Turkic peoples and others. They are fractious among themselves. Our goal here is not to conquer peoples as a resource, but rather to eliminate them as obstacles. They are too weak as individual nations to offer us much resistance, and they have never been able to unite to form a strong coalition for opposition.
“All of the populations of the Central Asian Republics exceed ninety percent Muslims. Our own Uighers have looked to them for guidance. Elimination of these irritating populations at the same time would be favorably considered in some western circles. The terrorist war Muslims have carried out against the western powers, particularly the United States, Great Britain and France, has generated a considerable anti-Muslim backlash in these countries. Indeed, Muslim American organizations have even sued the U.S. Attorney General and the American Government for perceived bias. Unlike Germany, which expelled its Turkish immigrant workers, the elitists in control of the legal system in America demanded, and the U.S. continued, to accept Muslims immigrants from countries essentially inimical to U.S. interests. Why they have done so escapes me and any logic. Nevertheless, they have in their midst a classic fifth column. Most of them are in supportive roles, supplying money, intelligence, hiding places and weapons to the active terrorists. Many Europeans will cheer, along with Americans, at what they perceive as a reduction in the power and the threat from Islam.
“Egypt, largest of the Islamic nations, is in turmoil, disintegrating with ethnic strife. Radical Islamism rules, with food and water shortages, massive over population, a very youthful population of young men in their teens and twenties who are unemployed and unemployable, suppressed women, and a government that is barely functional. In an attempt to appear even-handed, the United States reduced its commitments to both Egypt and Israel under the previous administration. The Egyptians were receiving conquerable amounts or were close to Israel in the amount of foreign aid they received. This reduction in aid has resulted in a tremendous outburst of anti-U.S. sentiment. Israel has had to fortify Gaza as a result, to deal with constant infiltration attempts. With no settlement on the West Bank or Gaza, Egypt is boiling over against the United States and Israel.
“The only potential difficulty I see is interference by Iran. Our nonaggression pact with them has lowered their guard. It has allowed us to put thousands of our people within their territory for development of their resources and aid in their manufacturing. These are a truculent people who have been warlike throughout history, before the days of Xerxes. They continuously interfere, intervene, and disrupt the internal affairs of their neighbors. They have sufficient unrest within their own population, in spite of their attempts at crushing their internal dissenters over the last few years. Most importantly, our presence there has supported internal turmoil and civil strife by funding various factions within their society. Indeed, we have funded and supplied small arms to both the hard line mullahs and those who wish a more open society. As you are aware, they have begun to kill each other in the back alleys. The mullahs remain in control and still believe in establishing a puritanical Islamic state throughout the world. Our agents in Africa report that the Iranians even have active agents in several countries. It is possible, even likely, that they will declare a Jihad against us at some point in time. If they do come against us, it will be our pleasure to send them to meet Allah. They will find that they do not have the resources to guard the Persian Gulf, threaten their neighbors, and resist us all at the same time. They have a limited number of nuclear weapons, of small yield size, some of their own that they have built, and some they have acquired on the black market from somewhere in the former Soviet Union. If they attempt to use biological weapons, we will respond in kind or with tactical nuclear strikes ourselves. They do have rockets capable of delivering such weapons to a range of one thousand kilometers. That is not sufficient to reach major targets in our country. Our resources are scattered to some extent. While much of our manufacturing is located close to our shoreline, much has also been dispersed throughout the country in the last fifteen years.
“What they have is sufficient to threaten all of their neighbors and the U.S. forces positioned offshore. Indeed, they are potentially a greater threat to us than the United States, as they are not afraid of their own deaths or certainly not of killing infidels. Iranian Islam is something of an unknown in terms of our proposed endeavors. The Iranian mullahs are unstable, and therefore unpredictable. Should they choose to interfere prior to our reaching their borders, I do not think anyone will come to their aid. They are the true pariah of the western world. There will be no nation from the east capable of helping them by that time.
“The Muslim world has no idea of our designs. Once the Arab part of the Muslim world realizes that all of the U.S. forces are tied down in response to our initial actions, or more appropriately, those of our allies, it is conceivable that they will briefly unite to launch an attack on Israel; if they do, so much the better for us. The United States cannot fight a two-front war, one in the western Pacific Littoral, and one in the Middle East, if they choose to fight at all. I am confident that they will not. In that regard, Islam is more likely to, at least initially, consider us an ally.”
“Do you consider it likely, Comrade General, that the Arabs will attack Israel at this point in time?”
“No, Comrade Commissar, I think it is most unlikely but not out of the realm of possibility. If it occurs, it will be fueled primarily by Iran and Syria but conducted by Egypt.”
“Will you inform the Arabs of this plan, Comrade General?”
“Most certainly not, Comrade Commissar Chen. The Arabs are utterly untrustworthy. They have historically been known to change sides in the middle of a battle, according to who pays the highest bribe. They have no honor. They have no central organization. Rather, they are organized into movements based on their religious sect and/or cause. These organizations are often at odds with, and fight, each other. If the Arabs know of our plans, the western governments will soon know of them as well. No, we will not rely on any support activity by them, but if it occurs, we will regard it as most favorable to us.”
“Comrade General, why do you believe that the Muslims will not wage guerilla war on our rear areas as they did to the Americans in Iraq? How will you stabilize your lines of communication?”
“Comrade Commissar, there will be no guerilla operations on our lines of communications simply because there will be no one to conduct such operations. One of our primary objectives is the annihilation of potential adversaries. There will be no civilian population to support any such activities. We will leave no enemies behind. We will consume everything in our path. There will be no food, fuel, haven, or civilian population to support them. They cannot hide without starving or freezing, there will be no bases for them from which to operate. Quite simply and bluntly, this is a true scorched earth campaign that will leave no conquered people. They will simply cease to exist as they did under Timur the Lame.”
“And what of other Asian nations, Comrade General?”
“Your policy that began in the closing decade of the twentieth century that continues to this day has served us very well, indeed, Comrade Commissar. Our political leaders over the last twenty years have successfully wooed on an individual basis all the nations of Southeast Asia. By pointing out American perfidy, the lack of will and resourcefulness, that America has only been here on a transitory basis, when it serves their economic interest and advantage, you have undermined any further strategic alliances that the United States might have forged and eroded previous ones. The ‘China is here forever’ strategy has been enormously successful. We have won many friends in Southeast Asia by declaring war on the rampant piracy on the South China Sea, the Philippine Sea, in the straits of Malacca and the Yellow Sea. Our naval forces that patrol these waters and attack these pirates have made shipping so much safer and cheaper that many are indebted to us and look upon us as a big brother.
“America’s Asian allies fail to agree in theory or practice for concerted defense. The Philippine Republic has been fighting a two decades old guerilla war with Muslim insurgents with little success. They are initiating negotiations with the Muslims. The United States has abandoned the Philippines in disgust to prevent another version of Vietnam for them. Singapore has no army, Myanmar, or Burma if you prefer, is a basket case. Vietnam is modestly militarily strong but economically and politically very weak. Due to AIDs, drugs have replaced sex as the primary economic commodity in Thailand. They expelled the Americans because they interfered too much with the drug trade. Who will survive against us?”
“Comrade General, this Committee demands that you keep us informed of your plans as they progress. Is there any difficulty you see in complying with that demand?”
“Of course not, Comrade Commissar. The People’s Liberation Army Navy is absolutely forthright with the Security Council of National People’s Congress. We will keep you informed as plans unfold.” Like hell we will, silently thought General Chang, Mao Lin.
Chapter 2
