Pentagon rapport geeft aan dat VS zich voorbereidt op totale oorlog

Onder
andere uit door het Pentagon vrijgegeven documenten blijkt dat de VS
zich voorbereidt op een oorlog met Rusland en China, ofwel de VS wil
WOIII starten……

Lees het volgende artikel van Andre Damon, eerder geplaatst op WSWS (World Socialist Web Site) door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House (en huiver….):

Pentagon
Report Points To US Preparations For Total War

By
Andre Damon

October
11, 2018 “Information
Clearing House” – Over
the past two weeks, with next to no media coverage, the United States
has moved substantially closer toward open military confrontation
with both Russia and China, the second- and third-ranked nuclear
powers in the world.

On
October 3, the United States threatened, for the first time since the
Cold War, to directly attack the Russian homeland. UN Ambassador to
NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison accused the country of violating the
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty by developing a
nuclear cruise missile and said that Washington was preparing to
“take out” the weapon with a US strike.

This
statement came just three days after a Chinese warship set a
collision course with a US destroyer carrying out a so-called
“freedom of navigation” operation in the South China Sea, forcing
the American ship to maneuver to avoid a collision and the
potentially deadliest military clash in the Pacific in decades.

Behind
such hair-raising incidents, the United States is undertaking
serious, long-term preparations to restructure the American economy
to fight a major war with a “peer” adversary, entailing radical
changes to American economic, social and political life.

This
is the essential content of a 146-page document released by the
Pentagon last Friday, titled “Assessing and Strengthening the
Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency
of the United States.” It makes it clear that Washington is
preparing not just for isolated regional clashes, but rather for a
massive, long-term war effort against Russia and China under
conditions of potential national autarchy.

The
document made clear that a major restructuring of the American
economy will be necessary to reach the United States military’s
stated goal of being prepared to “fight tonight” against a “peer
adversary.” The United States must “retool” for “great-power
competition,” the document declared.

“America’s
manufacturing and defense industrial base,” observes the report,
creates the “platform and systems” upon which “our Warfighter
depends.” This complex encompasses not just the government, but the
private sector, as well as “R&D organizations” and “academic
institutions.” In other words, the entire economy and society.

It
warns that “The erosion of American manufacturing over the last two
decades… threatens to undermine the ability of U.S. manufacturers
to meet national security requirements. Today, we rely on single
domestic sources for some products and foreign supply chains for
others, and we face the possibility of not being able to produce
specialized components for the military at home.”

Correcting
this strategic deficiency, the report concludes, means that “support
for a vibrant domestic manufacturing sector, a solid defense
industrial base, and resilient supply chains is a national priority.”

The
report squarely targets China, declaring, “China’s economic
strategies, combined with the adverse impacts of other nations’
industrial policies, pose significant threats to the U.S. industrial
base and thereby pose a growing risk to U.S. national security.”

The
promotion of US manufacturing dominance, in other words, is vital for
promoting military dominance.

The
protection of heavy industry goes together with the administration’s
efforts to defend America’s high-tech sector, the source of a vast
portion of US profitability.

As
the report notes, “One of the Chinese Communist Party’s primary
industrial initiatives, Made in China 2025, targets artificial
intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, autonomous and new energy
vehicles, high performance medical devices, high-tech ship
components, and other emerging industries critical to national
defense.”

It
warns that “Chinese R&D spending is rapidly converging to that
of the U.S. and will likely achieve parity sometime in the near
future,” and worriedly points to the fact that the Chinese
manufacturer DJI dominates the commercial aerial drone market.

The
Pentagon’s plans for protecting and expanding the US high-tech
sector include its backing for the administration’s efforts to
limit the admission of Chinese students to US universities through
visa restrictions. The report complains that, with as many as 25
percent of “STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics]
graduates in the U.S. being Chinese nationals… American
universities are major enablers of China’s economic and military
rise.”

The
vision in the document, in other words, is the concrete expression of
the conception outlined in the latest US national security strategy,
calling for “the seamless integration of multiple elements of
national power—diplomacy, information, economics, finance,
intelligence, law enforcement and military.”

A
leading element of this equation is the American corporate technology
sector, which has scrambled for fat Pentagon contracts to develop the
latest generation of weapons systems. In exchange for these payouts,
and aggressive protection from their international rivals, they have
worked closely to implement what one leaked internal Google document
called a “shift towards censorship” in cooperation with the
demands of the US military and intelligence agencies.

The
logic of this growing fusion between the repressive apparatus of the
state and increasingly powerful monopolies is the necessary
correlation between “total war” and a “totalitarian” society,
in which key constitutional provisions are rendered effectively
meaningless.

The
central target of such measures will be the forcible suppression of
the class struggle in the name of promoting “national security.”
The escalation of global US militarism has coincided with a major
upsurge in the class struggle, including the rejection of a
concessions contract by workers at UPS, the logistics giant whose
powerful workforce is capable of crippling not just America’s
industrial base, but substantial sections of the wartime economy.air

This
article was originally published by “WSWS” –

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