11.22.2017:
Dear Forum Members and Readers:
My Analyses to the Removal of JFK, MX, MLK, and RFK, the Oklahoma Bombing, 09.11.2001, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libia, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Syria, etc., is from a TOTALLY TOP DOWN APPROACH.PLEASE FOLLOW MY THINKING, THEN CRITIQUE IT:JFK, MX, MLK, AND RFK SOUGHT TO BRING PEACE IN OUR TIME, AND TO CHANGE THINGS AS WE KNOW THEM.JFK, MX, MLK, AND RFK ARE STILL DEAD.WARFARE AND WARS ARE STILL PROCEEDING FULL SPEED AHEAD.THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE.WARFARE AND WARS ARE BIG BUSINESS.YOU CAN'T KILL THE GOOSE/GEESE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS."We the People..." ARE CANNON FODDER, AND PAWNS EXPENDABLE ON THE CHESS BOARD OF THE SECRET STATE, THE SECRET GOVERNMENT, THE HIGH CABAL, THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS.DEMOCRACY IS A PLACEBO TO PLACATE, SEDATE, AND SOOTHE "We the People..."THERE IS ONLY ONE PARTY IN THE U.S. THE PARTY THAT ADVANCES WARFARE AND WARS.THE U.S. SPENDS MORE MONEY ON NATIONAL DEFENSE THAN THE ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED.WARS MUST NEVER END.WARS PROVIDE FOR CONTROL OF THE POPULATION.WARS PROVIDE FOR POPULATION CONTROL.THE WAR POWERS ACT IS THE MOST POWERFUL "LAW" OVER "We the People..."THE WAR POWERS ACT PROVIDES FOR THE SECRET STATE, etc., TO COLLECT REVENUE ENDLESSLY, AND TO PREPARE FOR WARFARE AND WARS, ENDLESSLY.(11.22.2017, BB.) Why America Loses Every War It Starts:President John F. Kennedy meets with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara at the White House on Oct. 2, 1963.BY HARLAN ULLMANNOVEMBER 17, 2017There’s no school for presidents, JFK said — but there needs to be a way to bring knowledge and understanding to bear on presidents’ decisions.Most Americans believe that their military is the finest in the world, a belief well-founded by several measures. Yet if the U.S. military were a sports team, based on its record in war and when called upon to defend the nation since World War II, it would be ranked in the lowest divisions.Consider history. The United States won the “big one”: the Cold War. But every time Americans were sent to wars that it started or into combat for reasons that lacked just cause, we lost or failed. Korea was at best a draw, ended not by a peace treaty but a “temporary” truce. Our record in subsequent conflicts was too often no better, and too often worse. Vietnam was an outright and ignominious defeat in which over 58,000 Americans died. George H.W. Bush’s administration deserves great credit in the first Iraq War and in handling the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the Afghanistan intervention begun in 2001 is still going with no end in sight. The Second Iraq War, launched in 2003, was rightly termed a fiasco. Even far smaller interventions — Beirut and Grenada in 1983, Libya in 2011 — failed.Americans need to know why. Notably, failure was not the fault of the Pentagon. My new book, Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts, analyzes and explains why this record of failure has occurred and why these setbacks, if uncorrected, will continue. Interestingly, the reasons for failure span generations of leaders and apply equally to both political parties, suggesting that somehow this predilection for failure has become part of the national DNA.Failure begins at the top. Americans elect presidents who, too often, are unprepared, unready and too inexperienced for the responsibilities of arguably the most difficult office in the world. This has led to flawed strategic judgment made worse by an absence of sufficient knowledge and understanding of the conditions in which force is to be used.President John F. Kennedy tartly observed that there is no school for presidents. Yet both he and his successor Lyndon Johnson became trapped in the Vietnamese quagmire because of poor strategic judgment and a near-total lack of knowledge and understanding of that conflict.Ronald Reagan wrongly believed he could bankrupt the Soviet Union by engaging in an arms race. Along the way, he blundered into Beirut, which cost the lives of 241 American servicemen blown up in a barracks; and Grenada, where he sought to protect American medical students who were in no danger and to stop the construction of a “Soviet air base” that was in fact a government effort to increase tourism.It took Bill Clinton 78 days to force Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to stop the killing of Kosovars through a bombing campaign that, if accompanied by the threat of ground forces, might have done the job in hours. George W. Bush invaded Iraq to change the “geostrategic landscape of the greater Middle East” by democratizing the region — and produced arguably the greatest American catastrophe since the Civil War. And Barack Obama touched off civil war in Syria by bombing Benghazi, leading to the death of Muramar Qaddafi and regional violence.Tragically, the U.S. started these wars for reasons that proved wildly wrong, or intervened based on lack of knowledge and understanding that led to failure. While Donald Trump, fortunately, has not suffered a crisis such as 9/11, his strategic judgment and understanding seem as poor as or even worse than his predecessors’.To prevent or mitigate future failures, we must discard our 20th-century thinking and adopt a new, brains-based approach to strategic judgments. Deterring the Soviet Union was far different from deterring a Russia that has no intent of attacking NATO or al Qaeda and the Islamic State that lack armies and navies. Moreover, our policymakers must have far greater knowledge and understanding of conditions in which force is to be used. And the focus of policy and strategy must be to affect, influence, and even control the will and perception of friends, foes and enemies.Unless and until Americans recognize why we fail too often in using force and correct these flaws, the chances of future reverses may not be inevitable. But it is highly likely.Dr. Harlan Ullman is a Distinguished Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I.; a Senior Advisor at Washington D.C.’s Atlantic Council and Business Executives for National Security; chairman of two private companies; and principal author of the doctrine ... FULL BIO
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BB.
WHY AMERICA LOSES EVERY WAR IT STARTS:
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Bruce Patrick Brychek
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Re: WHY AMERICA LOSES EVERY WAR IT STARTS:
War is a business no war = No ProfitIf war is finished or won fast there is no profitA short war means less bombs less profitWar is like any other business If they won the war it would be over= no more profitsNow they prolong the war. When did we have a 16 year war? Will it ever end? No it will not war is here to stay as part of life. https://www.google.ca/amp/observer.com/ ... tarts/amp/
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https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.globalr ... 5825/ampDo you think the politicians get a kick back? Of course they get Christmas bonuses
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I agree with Bruce's and Slav's synopsis 100%. I find Harlan's credentials in the Naval War College and as a Senior Washington Advisor and his other credentials puts him in the wrong mindset to make sense to me. He is lumping JFK and LBJ in the same camp as getting mired in Vietnam due to lack of knowledge. In fact JFK was a WWII vet and understood war as only a combat vet can. He ignored the Pentagon and cabinet members to make a move to extricate the US from Vietnam. In fact I believe this was a major motive for his elimination, and his moves to extricate US troops from Vietnam were overturned by Johnson before JFK was buried.Secondly, Harlan is talking about better ways to win wars. How about better ways not to start them?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5WN8KdTrGYWar is criminal it can only get worse to increase profits
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Apparently the CIA wanted a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, according to the Douglass book "JFK and the Unspeakable". The typewritten letter by a fake "Oswald" to the Russian embassy and the fake "Oswald" going to Mexico City to talk to the Russians about the "plan"--all set up a pretext for the US to initiate a war based on Oswald being part of a Communist conspiracy. In the early 60s there were a lot of military veterans who saw things in terms of endless conflict and war between opposing ideologies. The "good" capitalist Americans and the "bad" Communists. The good US Christian capitalists and the evil communist atheists. It was a false and hollow vision, a stereotypical illusion of us vs. them. Wars of aggression always fail, if the terrorists really attacked the US we deserve every casualty due to the horrors we have inflicted on other countries, under virtually every President we have had. The US will go bankrupt and default on its debts due to the war making, unfunded liabilities connected to military spending and social spending. Harvard economists have looked at the US year by year and the baby boom generation retiring as well as other unfunded commitments will create economic crisis.This is completely unnecessary. The US was ripping with money in the 50s, 60s, even into the 70s, with good jobs for most everyone. The "intelligence" services have performed the opposite of their purpose; they are the reason for the illegal immigrant crisis as South Americans had their governments upended and destabilized by the CIA with people fleeing north. Same thing has happened in the Mid-east, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, as well as Asia. Our military is in over 120 countries, and is not helping maintain peace, but meddles with countries it doesn't treat properly with non-intervention.