Posted by 2EyesnEars at 2:55 AM
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BARACK OBAMA SAYS:
"Whether you like it or not
we remain a dominant military superpower"
Concerning the Ukraine crisis, President Obama has declared and raised publicly the question
"Use military force?" 
America And Its Use of Military Force?
Well, "military force"does not only mean having to go out there and kill people. In fact, "military force" should permit to win by NOT using military force at all. President Obama, the Commander-in-Chief, better have Sun Tzu (6th century BC) and Carl von Clausewitz (19th century AD) as bedside reading to know the art of war and be victorious without having to fire a shot!
Well, "military force"does not only mean having to go out there and kill people. In fact, "military force" should permit to win by NOT using military force at all. President Obama, the Commander-in-Chief, better have Sun Tzu (6th century BC) and Carl von Clausewitz (19th century AD) as bedside reading to know the art of war and be victorious without having to fire a shot!
For the great American
nation to be a "dominant military superpower" is not just
to flex its muscles by showing off at parades its plentiful and
sophisticate military hardware, including its scary nuclear weapons
(BOUM? BOUM? BOUM?) In competition with Russia, China or even in
anticipation of a really good H-bomb by Iran on Israel and by North Korea
on South Korea. Everybody predicts such suicide-holocaust except probably the
Iranians and the north Koreans themselves! The time for conventional warfare
has passed and we have much more difficult problems to solve.
Coming back to America's
actual military power, it means 3 very clear and specific things:
- First and foremost,
its force of dissuasion must
deter any adversary from thinking of attacking it.
- Second, its force of strike must be able to
defeat the enemy attacks.
- Third, its force of occupation is to
have significant US troops stationed in foreign countries.
In this 21st century the
United States of America as "dominant military
superpower" can now rely only obits Force of
Dissuasion because its enormous Force of Strike and Force of
Occupation deal mainly with conventional warfare and are not
much effective against subversive warfare and terrorism.
After the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991, the great American nation is still
considered a "dominant military superpower" but the past 5
years have revealed its serious failure in the exercise of its force
of dissuasion when faced with provocations and confrontations by
other major powers like Russia in the Ukraine crisis or China in the
South China Sea disputes involving the national security of American
allies or even by lesser ones like Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea
...
America's enormous
conventional war machine in the exercise of its force of strike in Iraq
and Afghanistan has simply exposed its painful limitations when there
is no clear cut "fighting front" with enemy troops not wearing
any uniforms and completely mingled in the local population.
As for America's force of occupation in foreign
lands with the mission of fighting terrorism, subversive warfare
and nation building, the presence of US troops has
generated even increasing antagonism and fighting with more death and
devastation everyday for the civilian population. Now with the
withdrawal of the US forces of occupation, the situation has become
catastrophic without any light at the end of the tunnel for anybody!
America and its use of military force?
by 2 EyesnEars
