{"id":30091,"date":"2018-01-24T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30091"},"modified":"2018-01-24T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:30:04","slug":"a-national-defense-strategy-of-sowing-global-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30091","title":{"rendered":"A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In the new U.S. National Defense Strategy, military planners bemoan the erosion of the U.S.\u2019s \u201ccompetitive edge,\u201d but the reality is that they are strategizing to maintain the American Empire in a chaotic world, explains Nicolas J.S. Davies.<\/p>\n

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Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States on Friday at the Johns Hopkins University, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a picture of a dangerous world in which U.S. power \u2013 and all of the supposed \u201cgood\u201d that it does around the world \u2013 is on the decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur competitive edge has eroded in every domain of warfare \u2013 air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cAnd it is continually eroding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Known locations of U.S. military bases around the world (Source: Politico)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What he could have said instead is that the United States military is overextended in every domain, and that much of the chaos seen around the world is the direct result of past and current military adventurism. Further, he could have acknowledged, perhaps, that the erosion of U.S. influence has been the result of a series of self-inflicted blows to American credibility through foreign policy disasters such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n

There were also two important words hidden between the lines, but never mentioned by name, in the new U.S. National Defense Strategy: \u201cempire\u201d and \u201cimperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has long been\u00a0taboo for U.S. officials and corporate\u00a0media to speak of U.S. foreign policy as \u201cimperialism,\u201d or of the U.S.\u2019s global military occupations and network of hundreds of military bases as an \u201cempire.\u201d\u00a0 These words are on a long-standing blacklist of \u201cbanned topics\u201d that U.S. official statements and mainstream U.S. media reports must never mention.<\/p>\n

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A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos\u00a0 In the new U.S. National Defense Strategy, military planners bemoan the erosion of the U.S.\u2019s \u201ccompetitive edge,\u201d but the reality is that they are strategizing to maintain the American Empire in a chaotic world, explains Nicolas J.S. Davies. Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,259,3520,14836,11789,827,18107],"class_list":["post-30091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-empire","tag-imperialism","tag-james-mattis","tag-nicolas-j-s-davies","tag-united-states","tag-us-national-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30092,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions\/30092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}