US generals planning for resource wars

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US generals planning for resource wars

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"We have entered an era of persistent conflict." US generals planning for resource wars By Tom Clonan 22 Sep 2008 Under the auspices of the US department of defence and department of the army, the US military have just published a document entitled 2008 Army Modernization Strategy which makes for interesting reading against the current backdrop of deteriorating international fiscal, environmental, energy resource and security crises. The 2008 modernisation strategy, written by Lieut Gen Stephen Speakes, deputy chief of staff of the US army, contains the first explicit and official acknowledgement that the US military is dangerously overstretched internationally. It states simply: "The army is engaged in the third-longest war in our nation's history and . . . the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has caused the army to become out of balance with the demand for forces exceeding the sustainable supply." Against this backdrop, the 90 page document sets out the future of international conflict for the next 30 to 40 years - as the US military sees it - and outlines the manner in which the military will sustain its current operations and prepare and "transform" itself for future "persistent" warfare. In its preamble, it predicts a post cold war future of "perpetual warfare".

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SammyWinstonJack

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Mon Sep-22-08 11:12 AM
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1. ...

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CLG_News

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Mon Sep-22-08 11:18 AM
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2. Well, I hope the resources win! n/t

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SammyWinstonJack

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Mon Sep-22-08 10:17 PM
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4. I hope the resources for the people win! And that we don't steal from the people who hold them.

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L0oniX

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Mon Sep-22-08 11:53 AM
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3. Resources for who? Wall Street? Carlyle? Haliburton? Bilderberg? IMF? WTO?

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Sep-22-08 10:52 PM
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5. And if the shit hit the fan again, but in a very different way, and the .......

.... military was unprepared, people would **righteously** be yelling about that.

The Pentagon is planning and gaming. It is their DUTY to do so. They game all sorts of loony shit. That's their job.

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