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The Strategy of Empire

Comment by Larry Ross, March 19, 2005

Chossudovsky is one of the world's leading analysts of US foreign and military policies.
The following paper proves that. His forte is determining where the US is really headed, and what strategy it intends to use to get there. He does not cover the potential dire consequences of US strategy, at least in this article.

But the consequences are huge. We are looking at the rapid militarization of US society as a whole, and harnessing the resources of the state and the people, to achieve bizarre, even paranoid, and exceedingly dangerous military objectives. These will cause reactions to the US and then counter US reactions that can spiral up to a nuclear destruction. It is sobering and disheartening to think that mass populations such as that in the US, can be so easy deceived and manipulated to believe utter rubbish. One thing it proves is that fanatics like Bush's neoconservative administration, are committed, dedicated, criminally unscrupulous, people. They have proven how easily they can prevail over the majority, who are not committed and have few common objectives.

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America's Agenda for Global Military Domination

by Michel Chossudovsky, March 17, 2005

The Pentagon has released the summary of a top secret Pentagon document, which sketches America's agenda for global military domination.

This redirection of America's military strategy seems to have passed virtually unnoticed. With the exception of The Wall Street Journal (see below in annex), not a word has been mentioned in the US media.

There has been no press coverage concerning this mysterious military blueprint. The latter outlines, according to the Wall Street Journal, America's global military design which consists in "enhancing U.S. influence around the world", through increased troop deployments and a massive buildup of America's advanced weapons systems.

While the document follows in the footsteps of the administration's "preemptive" war doctrine as detailed by the Neocons' Project of the New American Century (PNAC), it goes much further in setting the contours of Washington's global military agenda.

It calls for a more "proactive" approach to warfare, beyond the weaker notion of "preemptive" and defensive actions, where military operations are launched against a "declared enemy" with a view to "preserving the peace" and "defending America". For the full story