{"id":34736,"date":"2018-06-04T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34736"},"modified":"2018-06-04T06:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:45:55","slug":"the-american-way-of-war-evolution-stops-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34736","title":{"rendered":"The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here<\/a><\/h3>\n
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America does what it wants.<\/p>\n

This is obvious, except it\u2019s also monstrously unnerving. Let\u2019s at least add some quote marks: \u201cAmerica\u201d does what it wants \u2014 this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but is, in fact, a narrowly focused amalgam of generals, politicians and corporate elites who value only one thing: global dominance, from now to eternity.<\/p>\n

Indeed, they\u2019re capable of imagining nothing else, which is the truly scary part. Until this changes, \u201cpeace\u201d is a feel-good delusion and \u201cdisarmament\u201d (nuclear and otherwise) is the butt of a joke. The American empire may be collapsing, but the war games continue.<\/p>\n

So I realized with a sudden start as I read Nick Turse\u2019s analysis of a collection of U.S. military documents, which the TomDispatch website got hold of via the Freedom of Information Act. The documents contained a detailed description of the 33rd annual Joint Land, Air, and Sea Strategic Special Program, \u201can elaborate war game,\u201d Turse explains, \u201ccarried out in 2016 by students and faculty from the U.S. military\u2019s war colleges, the training grounds for its future generals and admirals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The war game was wrapped around a fantasy future of \u201cdystopian dangers,\u201d set in 2020, in which, \u201cas the script for the war game put it, \u2018lingering jealousy and distrust of American power and national interests have made it politically and culturally difficult for the United States to act unilaterally.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, as Turse explains, quoting the war game\u2019s summary, the threat to America\u2019s near-future security is completely a matter of maintaining its global hegemony in the face of scientific and military advances \u201cby both state and non-state actors\u201d that \u201chave increasingly constricted U.S. freedom of action.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it\u2019s also monstrously unnerving. Let\u2019s at least add some quote marks: \u201cAmerica\u201d does what it wants \u2014 this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but […]<\/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":[5493,259,1467,15990,20334,712,827,862],"class_list":["post-34736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-empire","tag-hegemony","tag-nick-turse","tag-robert-koehler","tag-security","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34736","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=34736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34737,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34736\/revisions\/34737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}