PENTAGON:AMERICA ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE

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>The report, based on a year-long intensive research process involving consultation with key agencies across the Department of Defense and U.S. Army, calls for the U.S. government to invest in more surveillance, better propaganda through “strategic manipulation” of public opinion, and a “wider and more flexible” U.S. military.
>Observing that U.S. officials “naturally feel an obligation to preserve the U.S. global position within a favorable international order,” the report concludes that this “rules-based global order that the United States built and sustained for 7 decades is under enormous stress.”
>Warning that “global events will happen faster than DoD is currently equipped to handle”, the study concludes that the U.S. “can no longer count on the unassailable position of dominance, supremacy, or pre-eminence it enjoyed for the 20-plus years after the fall of the Soviet Union.”
>So weakened is U.S. power, that it can no longer even “automatically generate consistent and sustained local military superiority at range.”

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>Top on the list of forces that have knocked the U.S. off its position of global “pre-eminence”, says the report, are the role of competing powers—major rivals like Russia and China, as well as smaller players like Iran and North Korea.
>Russia and China are described as “revisionist forces” who benefit from the U.S.-dominated international order, but who dare to “seek a new distribution of power and authority commensurate with their emergence as legitimate rivals to U.S. dominance.” Russia and China, the analysts say, “are engaged in a deliberate program to demonstrate the limits of U.S. authority, will, reach, influence, and impact.”
>Any effort to make global order also work “favorably” for anyone else is automatically seen as a threat to U.S. power and interests.
>The document also sets out the real reasons that the U.S. is hostile to “revolutionary forces” like Iran and North Korea: they pose fundamental obstacles to U.S. imperial influence in those regions
>… neither the products of, nor are they satisfied with, the contemporary order… At a minimum, they intend to destroy the reach of the U.S.-led order into what they perceive to be their legitimate sphere of influence. They are also resolved to replace that order locally with a new rule set dictated by them.”

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>The “hyper-connectivity and weaponization of information, disinformation, and dis¬affection”, the study team observes, is leading to the uncontrolled spread of information. The upshot is that the Pentagon faces the “inevitable elimination of secrecy and operational security”.
>“Wide uncontrolled access to technology that most now take for granted is rapidly undermining prior advantages of discrete, secret, or covert intentions, actions, or operations… In the end, senior defense leaders should assume that all defense-related activity from minor tactical movements to major military operations would occur completely in the open from this point forward.”

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>Highlighting the threat posed by groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, the study also points to “leaderless instability (e.g., Arab Spring)” as a major driver of “a generalized erosion or dissolution of traditional authority structures.”
>The document hints that such populist civil unrest is likely to become prominent in Western homelands, including inside the United States.
>“The United States and its population are increasingly exposed to substantial harm and an erosion of security from individuals and small groups of motivated actors, leveraging the conflu¬ence of hyperconnectivity, fear, and increased vulner¬ability to sow disorder and uncertainty. This intensely disorienting and dislocating form of resistance to author¬ity arrives via physical, virtual, and psychological vio¬lence and can create effects that appear substantially out of proportion to the origin and physical size or scale of the proximate hazard or threat.”
>In short, the U.S. Army War College study team believe that the spread of ‘facts’ challenging the legitimacy of American empire is a major driver of its decline: not the actual behavior of the empire which such facts point to.

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>Having mourned the loss of U.S. primacy, the Pentagon report sees expanding the U.S. military as the only option.
>The document demands a military force so powerful it can preserve “maximum freedom of action”, and allow the U.S. to “dictate or hold significant sway over outcomes in international disputes.”
>Accordingly, a core goal of this military expansionism is ensuring that the United States and its international partners have “unimpeded access to air, sea, space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum in order to underwrite their security and prosperity”.
>“Failure of or limitations on the ability of the United States to enter and operate within key regions of the world, for example, undermine both U.S. and partner security.”
>“… some are fighting globalization and globalization is also actively fighting back. Combined, all of these forces are rending at the fabric of security and stable governance that all states aspire to and rely on for survival.”
>This is a war, then, between US-led capitalist globalization, and anyone who resists it.

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>>134061872
Thanks Obama

Finally, the world is waking up to how america is literally everything it proclaims to stand against

>>134061872
>AMERICA ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE
>the U.S.-backed international order established after World War 2 is “fraying” and may even be “collapsing”
Stop lying like that.

>>134062369
>"War college"
My ancestors are guffawing

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>Tfw America will be ground zero for the greatest Happening in history
>Tfw America will have the race war it so desperately deserved
>Tfw Americans will be able to shoot guns, kill niggers, remove kebab, and crack open a cold one with the boys

>Danger comes not just from great power rivals like Russia and China, both portrayed as rapidly growing threats to American interests, but also from the increasing risk of “Arab Spring”-style events
>but also from the increasing risk of “Arab Spring”-style events
It was just a prank bro! We don't want the Arab Spring anymore!

>>134061872
>arab spring style events

Democracy spring still on the menu

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chinks. chinks everywhere

>>134061872
>US doesnt have 100% control of the world
>Thus
>need more military spending

Paper is an ad for the military industrial complex