A half century after World War II in 1945--and end of the Cold War in early 1990's--outdated, obsolete national policies oriented to WAR--not PEACE--still dominate the nation.
Unknowledgeable, civilizationally-retarded Presidentsand Members of Congress accord higher priority to WAR and to perpetuating WAR SYSTEMS to KILL PEOPLE--than to advancing well-being of citizens and promoting PEACE.
WAR ORIENTED policies are reflected in:
- Annual, high-cost expenditures for MILITARY FORCES for KILLING PEOPLE--far greater than for advancing PEACE
- Over-costly national-global scope military system operating more than 100 military installations in United States, as well as deployment of military forces in 50 countries around the world
- Perpetuation of programs to TRAIN-PEOPLE-TO-KILL-PEOPLE at institutions such as West Point, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy, War Colleges, and other war-training institutions, including international programs to teach killing and war in more than 100 nations around the world--rather than promoting PEACE
- Maintenance of unnecessary arsenals, mothball fleets, supply systems, equipment, and materiel--often redundant or obsolete--at multi-billion dollar annual costs to taxpayers
- Retention of unnecessary military bases for economic or political, rather than defense, purposes
- Vainly attempting to develop an illogical, non-valid strategy--at projected costs of trillions of dollars--to fight TWO WARS at the same time--based on WW II and Cold War strategies, tactics, and armaments--against UNIDENTIFIED--in essence, non-existent--ENEMIES
- Unnecessary, overly-costly competition among branches of the Armed Forces for research, development, production, purchase, and deployment of weapons of war--costing taxpayers billions of dollars
- Perpetuation of an unrealistic, unmanageable, slow-to-mobilize, duplicative, inter-service competitive, multi-component military system comprised of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, Air National Guard, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and other systems.
- Schizophrenically, engaging in contradictory policies of (a) giving "lip service" to peace, while (b) proliferating massive armaments to make United States the No. 1 arms proliferator in the World--irresponsibly spreading weaponry to spark wars of the future
- Invalidly engaging in aggressive, macho-type, political and military policies emanating from WW II and the Cold War that attempt to posture Uncle Sam as ROBOCOP of the world
ROBOCOP
of WORLD
Victory of the Allies at the end of World War II catapulted the United States to a new, high status as a political and military superpower in the world.
More than 50 years after WW II--and the end of the Cold war in early 1990's, U.S. policy still vainly attempts to give highest priority to Uncle Sam's role as MILITARY SUPERPOWER--NOT PEACEMAKER--in the world.
Experience has proven, however, that Uncle Sam does not--and cannot--successfully perform as POLICEMAN of Planet Earth.
U.S. failure as global ROBOCOP is reflected in:
- Failure to provide leadership in preventing wars, massacres, genocide, displacement of millions of refugees--irrefutably demonstrating Uncle Sam's ineffectiveness as Policeman of the World: for example, U.S. eunuch role in wars and civil strife in countries around the world including recurrence of Hitler-type "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and mass killings in Somalia, Rwanda, Sri-Lanka, Afghanistan, and elsewhere
- Failed arbiter of international disputes--such as shuttle diplomacy in Middle East. For more than 50 years, U.S. Presidents have been dispatching emissaries (with full brief cases but empty heads) to the Middle East in abortive attempts to establish stability and peace. Concurrently, U.S. policies subsidized development of Israel's war machines, including nuclear weapons, at a high cost of $2-4 billion a year for U.S. taxpayers for a half century.
- Perpetuation of broad-scale, military programs for promoting wars of the future by providing weapons, military training, and/or assistance to more than 100 nations
- Over-burdening U.S. taxpayers with high-cost expenditures for outdated, out-moded U.S. military policies and forces with armaments and bases scattered around the world
With only 5% of the world's population of 6 billion people, the United States cannot--and should not--recklessly, invalidly, and futilely attempt to act as ROBOCOP of the WORLD.
Strategy…for
FUTURE
Acknowledging
the need for reorientation of national policies from WAR to
PEACE, we recognize that--in a volatile world-- it will
still be necessary to maintain a strong, military force to
protect the nation.
Coping with needs for traditional defense, as well as new challenges, will require reorientation of national planning, strategy, tactics, logistics, and deployment of military resources in accordance with challenges of the 21st century--not endless replication of obsolete, hold-over strategies from WW II and the Cold War.
Under a new U.S. Constitution for 21st Century and Beyond, reorientation of national military strategy will involve:
- Creation of a Military Strike Force for 21st Century comprised of a unified, single-component, land-sea-air-space military force--capable of responding to an international, global, or space threat to national security within MINUTES or HOURS--not days, months, or years.
- A President--acting as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces--will be required to be KNOWLEDGEABLE in military affairs. Although the existing Constitution designates the President as Commander in Chief of Armed Forces, it does not require Presidents to possess knowledge of military strategy and systems. Consequently, Presidents--with a hand on the red nuclear button--rank as security risks because of ignorance of military strategy, forces, and systems.
- Second in military command, the Secretary of Defense--charged with responsibilities for management of National Defense Forces--also will be required to be knowledgeable in military affairs--not required under existing Constitution or laws.
- Military Chiefs of Staff--professional career officers heading respective components of defense--will be oriented to functioning as ONE UNIFIED FORCE: not be dominated--or encumbered--by competitive warfare among components of the Armed Forces--Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines--fighting to posture as "most important" in the defense plans of the nation
New
THREATS to SECURITY
For
the future, military strategy and forces must be oriented
not just for defense against a major military aggressor(s);
but, also, for coping with new, national and international
threats to security.
Strategy, tactics, and deployment of military power should--and will--be involved in utilizing military forces to cope with such threats to security as:
- Combating--or discouraging--development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, chemical, and biological
- Global terrorism--individual, organizational, and national, including terrorism with a potential for utilizing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
- International narcotics trafficking that endangers health and well-being of populaces of nations
- International crime organizations that threaten economic, political and military stability and security of nations
- Coping with a multi-million, global refugee crises resulting from wars, civil strife, famines, floods, and other causes
- Control of crime on the streets of America and the world--a threat to safety, security, and tranquility for citizens and communities of the nation and humanity
- Attaining a dominant intelligence system capable of conducting (1) psychological warfare against real and potential enemies; (2) hacker warfare--corrupting or overriding information of foes and potential foes; and (3) assembling accurate intelligence for providing vital security information for U.S. and allies
For the 21st century, the priority for national security must be directed toward (1) protection against threats of overtly aggressive nations and forces; (2) coordinating with global community in preventing wars between nations and civil strife within nations; and (3) establishment of a system of enforcing international law under which wars will be outlawed and peace will be enforced in accordance with will of the world community.
Unless--and until--international law is established to prevent wars and enforce peace, there will be NO PEACE on Planet Earth.
In a world of political, economic, and military competition among powerful nations, U.S. foreign policy is severely handicapped by vainly attempting to posture as a Global Messiah of Human Rights--a status clearly unwarranted by history.
Under ignorant-of-history Presidents and Members of Congress, the United States has adopted an invalid international policy of attempting to dictate human rights standards for other nations.
True: Americans strongly support high ethical, moral, and humanitarian standards of conduct by people and nations.
In stark contradiction to its claim of global righteousness, however, the United States is encumbered with a long, abominable record of violations of human rights--invalidating any claim to human rights sainthood.
The infamous record of violations of human rights include:
- In the frontier days, Government and citizens committed mass genocide against millions of Native Americans Indians, raped women, stole land, and broke treaties. Victims of aggression and oppression, Indians who survived were incarcerated in concentration camps (deceptively called Reservations) for hundreds of years
- In the 1600-1800 era, American slave traders viciously tore millions of Africans from their families and homelands. Under whips, chains, and guns, Africans were enslaved in the United States--transforming it into the Great Plantation of Slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Heir of a slavery past, the nation became ethically and morally handicapped--crippled with discriminatory attitudes and policies against racial and ethnic minorities. The deeply embedded cancer of discrimination threatens to plague the nation far into the 21st century.
- In the 1840's, U.S. incumbents of high office--lustful for more land and wealth--launched aggression against Mexico seeking control of the Southwest Territory. The flagrant aggression against Mexico resulted in acquiring Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and California--an act comparable to violators of national and human rights by other aggressors of world history.
- In the 1800-1900 era, industrial capitalists engaged in massive abuses of human rights in employment, including chaining women to machines of factories, child labor, burial of miners in unsafe mines, and other dangerous, anti-human acts.
- INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM still kills about 70,000 workers in the workplace and injures more than 13 million a year.
Under the old Constitution, scars of a long, abominable record of VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS will last far into the 21st century: ample evidence to disprove any claim to human rights sainthood.
A half century after World War II--and end of the Cold War in early 1990's--NATIONAL POLICIES are still oriented to WAR--not PEACE.
Schizophrenically, Uncle Sam engages in contradictory policies of (a) giving "lip service" to PEACE; while (b) massively proliferating armaments to make the United Sates No.1 Arms Proliferator in the world--irresponsibly spreading weapons for war of the future.
With less than 5% of the world's population of 6 billion people, the United States CANNOT--and SHOULD NOT--attempt to posture as POLICEMAN of the WORLD!
For the future, U.S. MILITARY STRATEGY must be oriented to creating a unified, single-component Military Strike Force for 21st Century capable of responding to threats against national security within MINUTES or HOURS--not days, months, or years.
For the 21st century, national strategy must be oriented not just for defense against a major military aggressor(s); but, also, to coping with new national and international threats to security.
UNLESS--and UNTIL--INTERNATIONAL LAW is established to PREVENT WAR and ENFORCE PEACE, there will be NO PEACE on PLANET EARTH.
Under ignorant-of-history Presidents and Members of Congress, Uncle Sam has adopted an invalid policy of posturing as "GLOBAL MESSIAH of HUMAN RIGHTS"
Historically, the United States has a long, abominable record of violations of human rights--invalidating any claim to "Human Rights Sainthood."