The
Pentagon has been applying the "Rumsfeld-Cebrowski doctrine" in the
"expanded Middle East" for 2 decades. Several times it has considered
extending it to the "Caribbean Basin" but has refrained from doing
so, concentrating its power on its initial target. The Pentagon acts as an autonomous
decision-making center, effectively beyond the power of the President of the
United States. It is a civil and military administration that imposes its
objectives on other military forces.
The
maps that the US Joint Chiefs of Staff prepared in 2001, published in 2005 by
Colonel Ralph Peters, are still in effect in 2021 when determining the actions
of the United States armed forces.
In my book The Great Imposture [1], I wrote,
in March 2002, that the September 11 attacks were aimed at getting Americans to
accept:
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in your country, a mass surveillance system - the Patriot Act or “Patriot Act”
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abroad, a return to imperial policy, about which there was no document then.
Things
only began to become clearer in 2005, when Colonel Ralph Peters, then a Fox
News commentator, published the famous map of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a map
that defined the "redesign" of the "expanded Middle East."
(or "Greater Middle East") [2]. That map caused great agitation in
all the foreign ministries because it showed that the Pentagon planned to
modify the borders inherited from the Franco-British colonization (the Sykes-Picot
Agreements of 1916) without taking pity on any country in the region, whether
or not it was an ally. From Washington.
Since
then, every state in the region did everything possible to avoid the storm. But
instead of uniting with their neighbors in the face of a common enemy, each of
them tried to deflect the Pentagon's hand to strike "the one next
door." The most obvious case was that of Turkey, which repeatedly changed
its coat, giving the impression of having turned into a mad dog.
Two
visions of the world face each other. Since 2001, the Pentagon considers that
the strategic enemy of the United States is… stability. But Russia believes
that stability is the necessary condition for peace.
But the map released by Colonel Peters - who
detested then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - did not allow us to
understand the whole project. Already at the time of the September 11 attacks,
Peters himself had published in Parameters, the magazine of the US Army (the
American ground forces), an article [3] where he mentioned the map that he
would finally publish 4 years later. In that article, Colonel Peters suggested
that the Joint Chiefs of Staff was preparing to turn the contours of its map
into reality by committing heinous crimes through proxies, so as not to get its
hands dirty. At that time it could be thought that they would be private
armies, but experience showed that they cannot be involved in crimes against
humanity either.
The
key to the project was the so-called "Office of Force
Transformation", created at the Pentagon by Donald Rumsfeld in the days
after the September 11 attacks. At the head of that Office for Force
Transformation, Rumsfeld placed Admiral Arthur Cebrowski. Admiral Cebrowski, a
renowned strategist, had conceived the computerization of the US armed forces
[4]. It seemed that this Office should complete this work on Cebrowski,
although no one was opposed to the reorganization anymore. But it was not like
that, the Office had been created to transform the mission of the American
armed forces and this is demonstrated by the existing recordings of some of the
lectures that Cebrowski gave at the military academies.
Admiral
Arthur Cebrowski spent 3 years teaching courses to senior American officers ...
who are now generals.
The
"expanded Middle East" or "Greater Middle East" is not the
only target set by Admiral Cebrowski. Its destructive strategy extends to all
regions not integrated into the globalized economy.
What Admiral Cebrowski taught in his courses
was quite simple:
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The world economy is “globalizing”. To remain the world's leading power, the
United States would have to adapt to financial capitalism. The best way to do
this would be to guarantee developed countries that they will be able to
exploit the natural resources of poor countries without political obstacles.
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Starting from this premise, Cebrowski divided the world into two sectors: on
the one hand, globalized economies –including Russia and China– destined to be
stable markets. On the other side, all the other countries, where it would be
necessary to destroy the structures and institutions that make up the States,
thus plunging them into chaos to guarantee transnational companies the
possibility of exploiting the wealth of those countries without encountering
resistance.
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To achieve this, it is necessary to divide the non-globalized peoples by
resorting to ethnic criteria and dominate ideologically.
The
first region where this doctrine would be put into practice would be the
Arab-Muslim zone that runs from Morocco to Pakistan - except for Israel and two
neighboring microstates, Jordan and Lebanon, which would have to prevent the
spread of the fire. That is what the State Department called the "expanded
Middle East" or "Greater Middle East." The contours were not
defined based on the oil reserves that exist there but on common cultural
elements among their populations.
The
war that Admiral Cebrowski envisioned would have to encompass, at first, the
entire region, regardless of the divisions or alliances that emerged in the
cold war. In other words, the United States would no longer have friends or
enemies. The enemy was no longer defined in terms of ideology (such as the
opposition between capitalists and communists) or religion (as in the
"clash of civilizations") but only by its non-integration into the
globalized economy of finance capitalism. Nothing could protect those who had
the misfortune to be independent.
Contrary
to previous wars, designed to allow the United States to monopolize natural
resources, the new war would put resources within the reach of all globalized
states. The United States would no longer even be interested in capturing
natural resources, but would tend above all to divide the work on a planetary
scale and to make others work for it.
All
this would imply tactical changes in the way of waging war since it would not
be about winning but about imposing an "endless war", according to
the formula used by then-President George Bush Jr. And, indeed, we have seen
how all the wars that started since September 11, 2001 are still continuing
today on 5 different fronts: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.
It
matters little that allied governments interpret these wars according to what
the United States media affirms: they are not civil wars but stages of a plan
drawn up by the Pentagon.
The
"Cebrowski Doctrine" shook the US military. His assistant, Thomas
Barnett, wrote an article for Esquire Magazine [5] and later, to present it in
more detail, published a book entitled The New Pentagon Map: War and Peace in
the 21st Century [6]
In
his book, published after the death of Admiral Cebrowski, Barnett claims the
paternity of the strategy outlined by Cebrowski, which should be interpreted
only as a maneuver by the Pentagon not to assume his conception. The same thing
happened before with the "clash of civilizations" - initially there
was talk of the "Lewis doctrine", a propaganda stunt conceived in the
National Security Council to sell new wars to the American public opinion, and
it was presented publicly by Bernard Lewis's assistant Samuel Huntington as the
college description of an unavoidable reality.
The
application of the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski doctrine has run into numerous pitfalls,
some originating in the Pentagon itself and others due to the responses of the
people it wanted to crush. For example, Admiral William Fallon was forced to
resign as head of the CentCom for having tried to negotiate - on his own
initiative - a reasonable peace with the government of then Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The resignation of Admiral Fallon was caused precisely by…
Barnett himself, who published an article in which he accused Fallon of having
made abusive statements against then-President Bush Jr. In Syria, the failure
of attempts to destroy the Syrian state is due to the resistance of the Syrian
people and the entry into the scene of the Russian armed forces. In the case of
Syria, the Pentagon has lately been dedicated to burning crops and organizing a
trade blockade to starve Syrians, acts of abject revenge that show that it has
not succeeded in destroying the Syrian state.
During
his election campaign, Donald Trump spoke out publicly against the
"endless war" and for the return of American soldiers home. During
his tenure, Trump managed to prevent the Pentagon from starting new wars, he
also managed to repatriate a certain number of troops, but he could not
"tame" the Pentagon, which for its part developed its special forces
under the mode of "Signature reduction" [7] and managed to destroy
the Lebanese state without using soldiers in a visible way. And now the
Pentagon is applying that same strategy in Israel, where it organizes
indiscriminately anti-Arab and anti-Jewish programs in the midst of the
confrontation between Hamas and Israel.
On
several occasions the Pentagon tried to extend the "Rumsfeld-Cebrowski
doctrine" to the Caribbean Basin. There he planned not the overthrow of
the government of President Nicolás Maduro but the destruction of the
Venezuelan State, but he ended up postponing the operation.
The
8 members of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Everything
shows us that the Pentagon has become an autonomous power. It has an
astronomical budget of 740 billion dollars, or twice the annual budget of the
entire French State. In practice, the power of the Pentagon extends far beyond
the borders of the United States as it also controls all of the NATO member
states.
The
Pentagon is supposed to be accountable to the President of the United States.
But the experiences of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump demonstrate
just the opposite. President Obama could not impose on General John Allen the
policy he wanted to apply against the Islamic Emirate (Daesh) and President
Trump was simply deceived by the CentCom when he wanted to withdraw US troops
from the Middle East, specifically from Iraq and Syria. And there is nothing to
suggest that he will act differently with President Joe Biden.
The
recent open letter from a large group of retired US generals [8] shows that no
one knows who runs the US military anymore. It is true that the political
analysis made by the signatories of that open letter is worthy of the times of
the cold war, but that does not detract from their point: the federal
administration and the Pentagon generals are no longer in the same position.
frequency.
The
American journalist William Arkin demonstrated in the Washington Post that,
after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the federal state organized a whole
nebula of agencies supervised by the Department of Homeland Security or
Homeland Security [9 ]. These agencies secretly intercept and archive the
communications of everyone living in the United States. Now, Arkin has just
revealed in Newsweek that, for its part, the Department of Defense created
secret special forces not linked to those who operate wearing American uniforms
[10]. Those are the forces that today are in charge of the application of the
Rumsfeld-Cebrowski doctrine, regardless of who is in the White House or their
foreign policy.
The
Pentagon has equipped itself with a special clandestine force that numbers
60,000 troops. Its members do not appear in any official document and operate
without a uniform. Supposedly intended to fight terrorism, they actually
practice it. Meanwhile, the classical armed forces are dedicated to fighting
against Russia and China.
In
2001, when the Pentagon attacked Afghanistan and later Iraq, it did so using
its classic armed forces - it had no others - and those of its British ally.
But during the "endless war" in Iraq, the US military formed Iraqi
jihadist forces - Sunnis and Shiites as well - to plunge the country into civil
war [11]. One of these forces, originated within al-Qaeda, was used in Libya in
2014, under the name of Daesh. Little by little, these groups have replaced the
United States military to do the dirty work that Colonel Ralph Peters described
in 2001.
Today,
no one has seen soldiers in American uniforms in Yemen, Lebanon or Israel. The
Pentagon even highlights in the media the withdrawal of those who are deployed
in other countries. But there is a 60,000-strong clandestine special force - in
no uniform - whose mission is to wreak havoc in those countries through
so-called civil wars.
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[1]
Everyone believes that this book is dedicated to the attacks of September 11,
2001, but it is not. Only the first part, entitled "A bloody
staging", is dedicated to demonstrating that what is stated in the official
version is materially impossible. The other two parts are devoted to the policy
of mass surveillance ("Death of Democracy in the United States") and
the subsequent imperial project ("The Empire Strikes").
[2]
“Blood borders. How a better Middle East would look, ”Ralph Peters, Armed
Forces Journal, June 1, 2006.
[3]
"Stability. America’s ennemy ”, Ralph Peters, Parameters, # 31-4, Winter
2001.
[4]
Transforming Military Force. The Legacy of Arthur Cebrowski and Network Centric
Warfare, James R. Blaker, Praeger Security International, 2007.
[5]
“Why the Pentagon Changes Its Maps. And why we’ll keep going to war ”, Thomas
Barnett, Esquire Magazine, March 2003.
[6]
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century, Thomas P. M.
Barnett, Paw Prints (2004).
[7]
"According to Newsweek, the Pentagon has secret special forces 10 times
those of the CIA", Voltaire Network, May 19, 2021.
[8]
"Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals", Voltaire Network,
May 9, 2021.
[9]
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, William M.
Arkin and Dana Priest, Back Bay Books, 2012.
[10]
"Exclusive: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army," William M.
Arkin, Newsweek, May 17, 2021.
[11]
From the imposture of September 11 to Donald Trump, p. 101 and following,
Thierry Meyssan, Orfila, 2017.
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