| The Globalization of War, America’s “Long War” against Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky |
| By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, April 20, 2016 |
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 The Globalization of War is undoubtedly one of the most important books on the contemporary global situation produced in recent years.
In
his latest masterpiece, Professor Michel Chossudovsky shows how the
various conflicts we are witnessing today in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and
Palestine are in fact inter-linked and inter-locked through a
single-minded agenda in pursuit of global hegemony helmed by the United
States and buttressed by its allies in the West and in other regions of
the world. Dr Chandra Muzaffar, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
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PREFACE
The
“globalization of war” is a hegemonic project. Major military and
covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in
the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and
the Far East. The U.S. military agenda combines both major theater
operations as well as covert actions geared towards destabilizing
sovereign states.
 Under
a global military agenda, the actions undertaken by the Western
military alliance (U.S.-NATO-Israel) in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Palestine, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are coordinated at the highest levels
of the military hierarchy. We are not dealing with piecemeal military
and intelligence operations. The July-August 2014 attack on Gaza by
Israeli forces was undertaken in close consultation with the United
States and NATO. The actions in Ukraine and their timing coincided with
the onslaught of the attack on Gaza.
In
turn, military undertakings are closely coordinated with a process of
economic warfare which consists not only in imposing sanctions on
sovereign countries but also in deliberate acts of destabilization of
financial and currencies markets, with a view to undermining the
enemies’ national economies.
The
United States and its allies have launched a military adventure which
threatens the future of humanity. As we go to press, U.S. and NATO
forces have been deployed in Eastern Europe including Ukraine. U.S.
military intervention under a humanitarian mandate is proceeding in
sub-Saharan Africa. The U.S. and its allies are threatening China under
President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”.
In turn, military maneuvers are being conducted at Russia’s doorstep which could potentially lead to escalation.
The
U.S. airstrikes initiated in September 2014 directed against Iraq and
Syria under the pretext of going after the Islamic State are part of a
scenario of military escalation extending from North Africa and the
Eastern Mediterranean to Central and South Asia.
The Western military alliance is in an advanced state of readiness. And so is Russia.
Russia is heralded as the “Aggressor”. U.S.-NATO military confrontation with Russia is contemplated.
Enabling
legislation in the U.S. Senate under “The Russian Aggression Prevention
Act” (RAPA) has “set the U.S. on a path towards direct military
conflict with Russia in Ukraine.”
The
Russian Aggression Prevention Act (RAPA) is the culmination of more
than twenty years of U.S.-NATO war preparations, which consist in the
military encirclement of both Russia and China:
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Worldwide Militarization
From
the outset of the post World War II period to the present, America’s s
global military design has been one of world conquest. War and
globalization are intricately related. Militarization supports powerful
economic interests. America’s “Long War” is geared towards worldwide
corporate expansion and the conquest of new economic frontiers.
The
concept of the “Long War” is an integral part of U.S. military
doctrine. Its ideological underpinnings are intended to camouflage the
hegemonic project of World conquest. Its implementation relies on a
global alliance of 28 NATO member states. In turn, the U.S. as well as
NATO have established beyond the “Atlantic Region” a network of
bilateral military alliances with “partner” countries directed against
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. What we are dealing with is a
formidable military force, deployed in all major regions of the World.
The
“Long War” is based on the concept of “Self-Defense”. The United States
and the Western World are threatened. “The Long War” constitutes “an
epic struggle against adversaries bent on forming a unified Islamic
world to supplant western dominance”. Underlying the “Long War”,
according to a study by the Rand Corporation, the Western World must
address “three potential threats”:
Our
objective in this book is to focus on various dimensions of America’s
hegemonic wars, by providing both a historical overview as well as an
understanding of America’s contemporary wars all of which, from a
strategic viewpoint, are integrated.
Our analysis will focus on the dangers of nuclear war and the evolution of military doctrine in the post-9/11 era.
The
central role of media propaganda as well as the failures of the
anti-war movement will also be addressed. While the first chapter
provides an overview, the subsequent chapters provide an insight into
different dimensions of America’s long war.
Chapter I, Imperial Conquest: America’s “Long War” against Humanity provides
a post World War II historical overview of America’s wars from Korea
and Vietnam to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. There is a continuum in U.S.
Foreign Policy from the Truman Doctrine of the late 1940s to the
neocons and neoliberals of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama
administrations.
Part II focuses on the dangers of nuclear war and global nuclear radiation.
Chapter II, The Dangers of Nuclear War Conversations with Fidel Castro consists
of Conversations with Fidel Castro and the author pertaining to the
future of humanity and the post-Cold War process of militarization. This
exchange took place in Havana in October 2010.
Chapter III focuses on the doctrine of Pre-emptive Nuclear and the Role of Israel in triggering a first strike use of nuclear weapons against Iran.
Chapter IV, The Threat of Nuclear War, North Korea or the United States? focuses
on the persistent U.S. threat (since 1953) of using nuclear weapons
against North Korea while labeling North Korea a threat to global
security.
Chapter V, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War. The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation examines
the dangers of nuclear energy and its unspoken relationship to nuclear
weapons. Nuclear energy is not a civilian economic activity. It is an
appendage of the nuclear weapons industry which is controlled by the
so-called defense contractors. The powerful corporate interests behind
nuclear energy and nuclear weapons overlap.
Part III illustrates
at a country level, the modus operandi of U.S. military and
intelligence interventions, including regime change and the covert
support of terrorist organizations. The country case studies
(Yugoslavia, Haiti, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine) illustrate
how individual nation states are destabilized as a result of U.S.-NATO
covert operations and “humanitarian wars.” While the nature and
circumstances of these countries are by no means similar, there is a
common thread. The purpose is to provide a comparative understanding of
country-level impacts of America’s long war against humanity. In all the
countries analyzed, the intent has been to destroy, destabilize and
impoverish sovereign countries.
Chapter VI, NATO’s War on Yugoslavia: Kosovo “Freedom Fighters” Financed by Organized Crime examines
the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as an instrument of
political destabilization. In Yugoslavia, the endgame of NATO’s
intervention was to carve up a prosperous and successful “socialist
market economy” into seven proxy states. The political and economic
breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s served as a “role model” for
subsequent “humanitarian military endeavors.”
Chapter VII, The U.S. led Coup d’Etat in Haiti against
the government of Jean Bertrand Aristide was carried out in February
2004 with the support of Canada and France. In a bitter irony, the U.S.
ambassador to Haiti James Foley, had previously played a central role as
U.S. special envoy to Yugoslavia, channeling covert support to the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In Haiti, his responsibilities included
U.S. aid to the Front pour la Libération et la reconstruction nationale
(FLRN) (National Liberation and Reconstruction Front) largely integrated
by former Tonton Macoute death squads. Closely coordinated with the
process of regime change and military intervention, the IMF-World Bank
macroeconomic reforms played a crucial role in destroying the national
and impoverishing the Haitian population.
Chapter VIII, “Operation Libya” and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa reveals
the hidden agenda behind NATO’s 2011 humanitarian war on Libya, which
consisted in acquiring control and ownership of Libya’s extensive oil
reserves, that is, almost twice those of the United States of America.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) played a key role in the war on Libya in
coordination with NATO.
Libya
is the gateway to the Sahel and Central Africa. More generally, what is
at stake is the redrawing of the map of Africa at the expense of
France’s historical spheres of influence in West and Central Africa,
namely a process of neocolonial re-division.
Chapter IX, The War on Iraq and Syria. Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads examines
U.S.-NATO’s covert war on Syria, which consists in creating Al Qaeda
affiliated terrorist entities. The U.S.-led covert war consists in
recruiting, training and financing Islamist death squads which are used
as the foot-soldiers of the Western military alliance. The ultimate
military objective is the destruction of both Iraq and Syria.
Chapter X, War and Natural Gas. The Israel Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields focuses on Israel’s attack directed against Gaza with a view to confiscating Gaza’s offshore gas reserves.
In Chapter XI, The U.S. has Installed a Neo-Nazi Government in Ukraine,
the structure of the U.S.-EU sponsored proxy regime in Kiev is
examined. Key positions in government and the Armed Forces are in the
hands of the two neo-Nazi parties. The Ukraine National Guard financed
and trained by the West is largely integrated by Neo-Nazis Brown Shirts.
Part IV is entitled Breaking the American Inquisition. Reversing the Tide of War focuses on some of the contradictions of the antiwar movement.
Chapter XII, The “American Inquisition” and the “Global War on Terrorism” analyzes
the central role of America’s “war on terrorism” doctrine in harnessing
public support for a global war of conquest. The “Global War on
Terrorism” (GWOT) is a fabrication based on the illusion that one man,
Osama bin Laden, outwitted the multi-billion dollar U.S. intelligence
community.
Today’s
“Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) is a modern form of inquisition. It
has all the essential ingredients of the French and Spanish
Inquisitions. Going after “Islamic terrorists”, carrying out a worldwide
pre-emptive war to “protect the Homeland” are used to justify a
military agenda.
In
turn, “The Global War on Terrorism” is presented as a “Clash of
Civilizations”, a war between competing values and religions, when in
reality it is an outright war of conquest, guided by strategic and
economic objectives.
Chapter XII, “Manufactured Dissent”, Colored Revolutions and the Antiwar Movement in Crisis examines
the role of corporate foundations in funding dissent and the inability
of “progressive” civil society organizations and antiwar collectives to
effectively confront the tide of media disinformation and war
propaganda.
Michel Chossudovsky, Montreal, December 2014
COMMENDATIONS
The
Globalization of War is an extraordinarily important book. It tags the
origin of a long series of wars and conflicts, from the end of World War
II to the present, as being direct products of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Nothing happens by accident. U.S. provocateurs, usually agents of the
CIA, incite one conflict after another in what Michael Chossudovsky
labels America’s “Long War” against Humanity.
It
comprises a war on two fronts. Those countries that can either be
“bought,” or destabilized by a corrupt international financial system,
are easy targets for effective conquest. In other cases insurrection,
riots and wars are used to solicit American military intervention to
fill the pockets of the military-industrial complex that General
Eisenhower warned us about. The “End Game” is a New World Order
embracing a dual economic and military dictatorship prepared to use
atomic weapons and risk the future of the entire human species to
achieve its ends.
Michel
Chossudovsky is one of the few individuals I know who has analyzed the
anatomy of the New World Order and recognized the threat to the entire
human species that it is. The Globalization of War is a must read for
anyone who prefers peace and hope to perpetual war, death, dislocation
and despair. Hon. Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence
Professor
Michel Chossudovsky is the most realistic of all foreign policy
commentators. He does not lie for money and position, and he does not
sell his soul for influence. His book provides an honest appraisal of
the extreme danger that hegemonic and demonic American neoconservatism
poses to life on earth. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts,
former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury, former Wall Street Journal
editor, former Wm. E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University.
At
these moments when the threat of humanity’s extinction by the
forces unleashed by the empire and its vassals, it is imperative
that we grasp the nature of the beast that threatens us with its
endless wars perpetrated in the name of the highest levels of freedom.
This
vital work by an outstanding teacher will remain an enduring
testimony of the author’s all-embracing humanism and scholarship that
has always been inseparable from his political activism that spans
several decades. It should be mandatory reading for those seeking to
understand , and thus to contain and repel, the compulsive
onslaughts of the hegemon’s endless wars with its boundless
bestialities and crimes against humanity..Dr Frederic F. Clairmonte,
award winning author and political economist, distinguished (former)
economic analyst at the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD).
The
Globalization of War is undoubtedly one of the most important books on
the contemporary global situation produced in recent years. It comes
from the pen of one of the most insightful and incisive writers on
global politics and the global economy alive today.
In
his latest masterpiece, Professor Michel Chossudovsky shows how the
various conflicts we are witnessing today in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and
Palestine are in fact inter-linked and inter-locked through a
single-minded agenda in pursuit of global hegemony helmed by the United
States and buttressed by its allies in the West and in other regions of
the world. This Machiavellian, indeed, diabolical agenda not only
centres around wars of conquest and subjugation but also seeks to
dismember and destroy sovereign states. Russia, China and Iran are the
primary targets of this drive for dominance and control. The underlying
economic motives behind this drive are camouflaged in the guise of a
civilized West fighting “barbaric Islamic terrorism” which as
Chossudovsky exposes is sometimes sponsored and sustained by intelligent
networks in the West.
Chossudovsky
has aptly described this US helmed agenda for hegemony as a “long war
against humanity.” It is an assertion that is backed by solid facts and
detailed analysis in a brilliant work that should be read by all those
who are concerned about the prevailing human condition. And that should
include each and every citizen of planet earth. Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President
of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) and former
Professor of Global Studies at the Science University of Malaysia.
The
media, political leaders, academics and the public at large often
forget to put into historical perspective the spiral of daily news: we
tend to concentrate on the latest events and crisis.
This
may explain why the latest report of the US Senate on CIA’s rendition
flights, detention places in black wholes and use of torture following
9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq has been received as a surprise
and shocking news. Such practices have been well known by the
international community and depicted, among others, in a number of
United Nations documents as well as in Dick Marty’s reports to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
This
CIA’s behavior has a long history including assassination plots of
political leaders, coups d’Etat, terrorist attacks and other subversive
actions that merge into a recurrent pattern.
The
Pax Americana like the Pax Romana has been built through wars and
domination. General Smedley D. Butler, a hero and the most decorated
soldier of the United States had already denounced the US policy in his
book “War is a racket”, written over 70 years ago.
Michel
Chossudovsky’s book “The Globalization of Warfare” has the great merit
of putting into historical perspective the hegemonic project that has
been carried out by the United States through various centuries for the
control and exploitation of natural resources. Jose L. Gomez del Prado, UN Independent Human Rights Expert, Former Member UN Group on the use of mercenaries
Michel
Chossudovsky leads the world in communicating critical information that
few or none know. He is a perfect guide for the East European to Russia
war now in the making. John McMurty, professor emeritus, Guelph University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Michel
Chossudovsky ranks as the world’s leading expert on globalization – a
hegemonic weapon that empowers financial elites and enslaves 99 percent
of the world’s population. The Globalization of War exposes covert
operations waging economic warfare designed to destabilize national
economies deemed to be inimical to the USA and her NATO allies. The
military dimension of western hegemonic strategies threatens to trigger a
permanent global war. Chossudovsky’s book is diplomatic dynamite – and
the fuse is burning rapidly. Michael Carmichael, President of the Planetary Movement
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