{"id":50318,"date":"2019-12-25T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50318"},"modified":"2019-12-25T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:35:41","slug":"pepe-escobar-you-say-you-want-a-russian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50318","title":{"rendered":"PEPE ESCOBAR: You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/12\/21\/pepe-escobar-you-say-you-want-a-russian-revolution\/\">PEPE ESCOBAR: You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Andrei Martyanov\u2019s latest book provides unceasing evidence about the kind of lethality waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real armies&nbsp;(not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein\u2019s).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pepe-Escobar-130x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29825\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>O<\/strong>nce in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That\u2019s the responsibility carried by&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/product\/the-real-revolution-in-military-affairs\/\">The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;by Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press), arguably the most important book of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martyanov is the total package \u2014 and he comes with extra special attributes as a top-flight Russian military analyst, born in Baku in those Back in the U.S.S.R. days, living and working in the U.S., and writing and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/smoothiex12.blogspot.com\/\">blogging&nbsp;<\/a>in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-7.57.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42267\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right from the start, Martyanov wastes no time destroying not only Fukuyama\u2019s and Huntington\u2019s ravings but especially Graham Allison\u2019s childish and meaningless Thucydides Trap argument \u2014 as if the power equation between the U.S. and China in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>century could be easily interpreted in parallel to Athens and Sparta slouching towards the Peloponnesian War over 2,400 years ago. What next? Xi Jinping as the new Genghis Khan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By the way, the best current essay on Thucydides is in Italian, by Luciano Canfora (\u201c<em>Tucidide: La Menzogna, La Colpa, L\u2019Esilio\u201d<\/em>). No Trap. Martyanov visibly relishes defining the Trap as a \u201cfigment of the imagination\u201d of people who \u201chave a very vague understanding of real warfare in the 21st century.\u201d No wonder Xi explicitly said the Trap does not exist.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martyanov had already detailed in his splendid, previous book, \u201cLosing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning,\u201d how \u201cAmerican lack of historic experience with continental warfare\u201d ended up \u201cplanting the seeds of the ultimate destruction of the American military mythology of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>and 21<sup>st<\/sup>centuries which is foundational to the American decline, due to hubris and detachment of reality.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEPE ESCOBAR: You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution? Andrei Martyanov\u2019s latest book provides unceasing evidence about the kind of lethality waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real armies&nbsp;(not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein\u2019s). ***** Once in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity [&hellip;]<\/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":[28762,6963,4076,694],"class_list":["post-50318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-andrei-martyanov","tag-consortium-news","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50318","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=50318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50319,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50318\/revisions\/50319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}