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Full Spectrum Information Warfare
Information Operation Roadmap Part 1

5 November 2007

When the US military refers to full spectrum domination, they truly mean full spectrum. Information operations or information warfare is a key part of the military battlespace. Recently, a document entitled Information Operation Roadmap was declassified by the Pentagon because of a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The document was described by the Council on Foreign Relations' website as:

"A 2003 Pentagon document previously classified as 'noforn' (not for release to foreign nationals, including allies), this report details the US military's information operations, including psychological operations, electronic warfare, and involvement in foreign journalism. The document was made public by the National Security Archive on January 26, 2006."

On Par with Air, Ground, Maritime and Special Operations

The importance of information warfare is clearly laid out in the document.

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Iron Fist or a Forked Tongue?
The West's Great Leap Forward

29 October 2007

The motivation of the powerful take on the same primary objectives; more power through more control. The methods used can be different, but the desired outcomes are the same. Is a forked tongue better than a iron fist?

The following quote is from Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time and describes the reforms forced on the Chinese people shortly after the ascendance of the communist regime to power.

The second stage in [communist China's] agrarian reform (1955) sought to establish cooperative farming. In effect it took away from the peasants the lands they had just obtained. The argument for forming collectives was persuasive; most peasant holdings were too small to work effectively, since abundant fertilizers, new crops and methods, specialized tools, and efficient land management could not be used on the average peasant farm of half an acre. To permit such improvements in farm practices, the peasants were forced into cooperatives. By the end of 1956, 83 percent of the peasants, or 125 million families, had joined into 750 thousand cooperatives.

The third stage of agrarian reform, constituting the basic feature of the "Great Leap Forward," merged the 750 thousand collective farms into about 26,000 agrarian communes of about 5,00 families each. This was a social rather than simply an agrarian revolution, since its aims included the destruction of the family household and the peasant village. All activities of the members, including child rearing, education, entertainment, social life, the militia, and all economic and intellectual life came under the control of the commune. In some areas the previous villages were destroyed and the peasants were housed in dormitories, with communal kitchens and mess halls, nurseries for the children, and separation of these children under the communes' control in isolation from their parents at an early age. One purpose of this drastic change was to release large numbers of women from domestic activities so that they could labor in fields or factories. In the first year of the "Great Leap Forward," 90 million peasant women were relieved of their domestic duties and became available to work for the state. In many cases, factories and craft centers were established in the communes to use this labor, manufacturing goods not only for the commune but for sale in the outside market.

Interdependence and the Luxury of War
The Grand Chessboard Part 4

22 October 2007

The following is a series of loosely linked topics taken from Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997). These topics did not fit in to my previous articles about this book but are important topics in their own right and still should be addressed.

The first three articles in this series described the use of American imperial power to bring about world government, the techniques used to bring about the fall of the American empire and the rise of the United Nations, and the purpose of supranational unions within that agenda.

War, a Luxury of the Poor

War is an extraordinary tool for changing the culture of nations into the designs of the elite. The side being attacked and the side doing the attacking are both drastically altered by the process. With this in mind, the statement by Brzezinski, highlighted below, is referring to the usefulness of war to the elite of those countries and is coldly serious.

From The Grand Chessboard:

"That lack of confidence has been intensified by widespread disappointment with the consequences of the end of the Cold War. Instead of a "new world order" based on consensus and harmony, "things which seemed to belong to the past" have all of a sudden become the future. Although ethnic-national conflicts may no longer pose the risk of a central war, they do threaten the peace in significant parts of the globe. Thus, war is not likely to become obsolete for some time to come. With the more-endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self-interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford. In the foreseeable future, the impoverished two-thirds of humanity may not be motivated by the restraint of the privileged." [emphasis mine] - 213

Thank You MySpace For Blocking My Site

19 October 2007

I just received an email informing me that Knowledge Driven Revolution.com has been blocked by MySpace.com. Now, I could use this incident for shameless self promotion, or even take some pride in the fact that my little website managed to ruffle a few feathers on the baby toe of the beast. Or, I could try and rally the troops, to mass email MySpace in hopes of getting reinstated (when I used the term mass, I really meant around three or four emails, including my own, I have no delusions of grandeur).

But, instead I decided to respond like an adult who still has some self respect and politely thank MySpace for blocking my site. The whole concept of MySpace (or Facebook or any of these other self profiling websites) makes my skin crawl.

Self Profiling

Two weeks ago I wrote an article about the ridiculous things people are willing to do to themselves if they can do it for free. It doesn't matter what health problems will arise or what freedoms they will sacrifice, as long as it is free they will sign up. Being fallible, I missed an obvious example, MySpace. To correct that oversight, I will elaborate a little here.

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Supranational Unions As A Stepping Stone
The Grand Chessboard Part 3

15 October 2007

An important step in establishing a world government run by the United Nations is the development of smaller multinational trade and political unions. This step allows for a gradual weakening of nationalistic emotions in the respective countries as borders are slowly erased. It also develops a sense of normalcy with having multinational bureaucracies replacing the roles that national governments formerly played.

This process is strongly supported by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997). As discussed here, Brzezinski makes it plainly clear that the role of the American empire is to pave the way for the emergence of the United Nations as a world government. The tools used for this as well as the necessary fall of the American empire were previously discussed here.

European Union

From The Grand Chessboard:

"By pioneering in the integration of nation-states into a shared supranational economic and eventually political union, Europe is also pointing the way toward larger forms of postnational organization, beyond the narrow visions and the destructive passions of the age of nationalism." [emphasis mine] - 57

Cultural Decay and Motivating Empire
The Grand Chessboard Part 2

8 October 2007

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s described in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), how the focus of American global primacy should be to unify the world under the dictates of the United Nations. This was described in my first article entitled America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower.

There are many problems associated with the emergence of the United Nations out of the ashes of the American empire. Brzezinski makes clear his distain for the limitations that "populist democracy" puts on his desired movements around the Eurasian chessboard and his revulsion at the potential for an "impotent global power".

"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion" [emphasis mine] - 35

"A genuinely populist democracy has never before attained international supremacy. The pursuit of power and especially the economic costs and human sacrifice that the exercise of such power often requires are not generally congenial to democratic instincts. Democratization is inimical to imperial mobilization." [emphasis mine] - 210

The Free Dumb Phone

6 October 2007

It never cesses to amaze me the things people will do to get something for free. No matter what damage is done to them, as long as it is free, they will sign up. No questions asked.

Enriching Your Life For Free

The latest example of this comes to us in an offer from Pudding Media for free long distance phone calls.

"A new media company has just launched an Internet-based phone service that promises free calls to users who sign up - the only catch is that in exchange, the company will monitor your conversations and send advertisements to your computer based on what you talk about."

Corporate Issue Armbands

4 October 2007

When I first saw people walking around with their latest electronic trinket strapped to their arm, I couldn’t figure out why it bothered me. Besides the fact that people are slowly being turned into the Borg with the next obvious step of sliding a device under the skin. But the other day the reason finally solidified in my mind.

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