The Rumsfeld-Cebrowski doctrine. ABOUT THE WARS IN IRAQ, LIBYA, YEMEN AND SYRIA.

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:

- in your country, a mass surveillance system - the Patriot Act or “Patriot Act” -

- 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:

 · 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.

 · 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.

 · 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.