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People walk amongst US national flags erected by students and staff from Pepperdine University as they pay their respects to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, at their campus in Malibu, California.
As a new report by the Army War College tracks the loss of "US primacy" around the world, it prescribes more of the same; propaganda, surveillance and war.
It's public knowledge that, from the point of view of the Pentagon, the United States faces five
existential threats: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and terrorism, in that order. Way beyond rhetoric,
all Pentagon actions should be understood and analyzed under this framework.
Now global public opinion may have access to an even more intriguing document;
a new study by the Army War College titled 'At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World'. Readers are actively encouraged to download it and study the fine print.
Researcher Nafeez Ahmed has proposed some helpful
decoding of this "post-primacy" predicament that took virtually ten months to be put together.
The intellectual firepower concerned involved all sections of the Pentagon scattered around the world, as well as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Intelligence Council, and proverbial neocon-heavy think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the RAND Corporation, and the Institute for the Study of War.
Comment: What will happen remains to be seen, but one thing's for certain: the liberals are playing with fire in the tinderbox that is America.