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Ahmedinejad stands on American soil, threatens war with America By Jim Treacher 09/22/2010 ~ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad warned the Obama administration today that if Iran’s nuclear facilities are attacked, the U.S. will face a war that “would know no boundaries.”

North Korea: War Is Coming To American Soil: October 6, 2006 ~ A rambling, disjointed editorial by a man known as Kim Jong-Il's "unofficial spokesman" tells Asia Times readers that North Korea does not intend to build its nuclear weapons to use as bargaining chips. Kim will build them to turn American cities into "towering infernos"

America's Wars - A Complete (sort of) History: Just the "big ones" really, but an interesting submission by HistoryCentral.com

Do you think we'll see another war on American soil? A Yahoo!Answers question and the 165 answers. See what people think. See also: War on American soil?

“Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers.” (from the Hart-Rudman U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century report, Sept 15, 1999): Look back again, you read that right: “Sept 15, 1999.” In the late 1990s the highest levels of US government and policy-makers organized the broadly bipartisan Hart-Rudman Commission to sketch out major issues of national interest and national security and to make strategic policy recommendations for the 21st century. Their prediction: “Danger Ahead!”

New PS3 Simulates Warfare on U.S. Soil After “EMP attack” Published on March 15, 2011 by Sheree: Predictive Programming, anyone? It’s just a game ; However, the U.S. military has been using video game controllers for years to kill “insurgents” in Afghanistan and Iraq, so this comes as no surprise. However, the world controllers would like to have war on American soil anyway, so why not create a video game designed to depict that?

Small Wars 2.0 Given the experience of the last decade, policymakers are certain to prefer managing future terrorist threats with the fusion of intelligence, law enforcement, and special military operations and not via resource-intensive counterinsurgency (COIN). The prospect of large-scale conventional warfights with competitor states too appears to be of little use to senior decision makers for determining the most demanding future landpower requirements.

Winning in Afghanistan 2009 Ali A. Jalali ~ Since 2001 the situation in Afghanistan has evolved from a relatively simple post-conflict setting into a complex threat environment marked by terrorism, insurgency, and the many challenges of nation-building. Its ever-increasing complexity has perplexed the Afghan government and contributing nations and stymied the development of any unified, long-term vision for the nation and its people. All parties have approached the emerging issues in divergent, uncoordinated ways, with operations on every front being fragmented reactions to events rather than strategic undertakings designed to support long-term goals.

Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age ~ 2009 Michael S. Gerson: This article seeks to expand the current debate about the role and utility of conventional forces in US deterrence strategies by reexamining the traditional logic of conventional deterrence, which focuses on deterrence by denial, in the context of the modern international security environment. It is primarily concerned with the role of US conventional forces in extended deterrence, defined as the threat of force to protect allies and friends, rather than “central” or “homeland” deterrence.

Filling Irregular Warfare’s Interagency Gaps ~ 2009 Lew Irwin: This article advances a number of assertions related to conducting irregular warfare in today’s environment. First, the US government’s existing interagency mechanisms have failed to effectively integrate and coordinate agency resources and efforts, a problem that arises primarily from a disjointedness of authority and vision at the national-strategic level. The result is correspondingly adverse effects at the theater-strategic and operational levels. Commonly proposed solutions to this major problem depend upon a set of faulty assumptions that makes these proposals unlikely to succeed, given the realities of the key agencies’ cultural norms, level of existing expertise, comparative resources, and core defining tasks.

Measuring Effectiveness in Irregular Warfare ~ 2007 JAMES CLANCY and CHUCK CROSSETT: Regardless of the near-term effects of America’s efforts in Iraq and the global war on terrorism, one unmistakable fact has become apparent. The style of warfare for which we prepared ourselves in the post-Vietnam era, namely traditional force-on-force engagements waged within a finite campaign, is not as likely to occur as irregular-style Long War conflicts. One worrisome consequence is that the decisions on which the United States bases equipment acquisition and constructs operational planning over the next decade are dependent upon traditional warfare-style analysis. Our tools, models, and even the methodologies for assessing success are biased toward measuring physical effects on near-peer forces, played out over the days or months of a maneuver and attrition campaign. (.pdf format)

How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? 2005 (.pdf format) Colin S. Gray: The question in this article’s title is answered directly in the main section of the analysis. However, as a necessary precursor to that analysis four caveats, or warnings, are signaled which bear upon the degree of confidence that should, and should not, be placed in strategic futurology. In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.”

• War should not be approached in ways that would divorce it from its political, social, and cultural contexts.
• Defense establishments are apt to develop impressive military solutions to problems that they prefer to solve, rather than those that a cunning or lucky foe might pose.
• Trend-spotting and analysis is not a very helpful guide to the future. The strategic future is driven by the consequences of the trends we see, trends which interact and can trigger nonlinear developments.
• Surprises happen. Some are agreeable, while some are not. It is unlikely that we will prove any more farseeing than were our predecessors. Beware of the workings of the law of unintended consequences. Because war is a duel, there are intelligent adversaries out there who will strive to deny us a mode of warfare that privileges the undoubted strengths of our transforming military power.

What Will It Take to Deter the United States? by RICHARD K. BETTS; From Parameters, Winter 1995, pp. 70-79.: Americans have gotten used to thinking about deterrence, but usually in terms of what it takes us to deter an adversary. Few Americans like to think about being deterred by others. It offends their sense of righteousness: good guys deter, bad guys are deterred. It offends their sense of honor: wimps or bullies are cowed by threats, not brave souls like we are. But the logic of deterrence has no moral content. Deterrence should work against anyone, anytime, and anywhere that the costs of the action being deterred outweigh the gains. [Link updated 4/15/11]

low-intensity conflict Low-Intensity Warfare / Low-Intensity Conflict / Counterinsurgency. The U.S. Army's training manual FC 100-20, issued in May of 1986, defined low-intensity warfare (conflict) as follows: "LIC is a limited politico-military struggle to attain political, military, social, economic or psychological objectives. It is often of lengthy duration and extends from diplomatic, economic and psychological pressure to terrorism and insurgency. LIC is generally confined to a specific geographical area and is often characterized by limitations of armaments, tactics and level of force. LIC involves the actual or contemplated use of military means up to just below the threshold of battle between regular armed forces."

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies July 15, 2002 - The "Patriot Act," passed earlier this year calls for a Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS). The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity". A pilot program, described on the government Web site www.citizencorps.gov, is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants participating in the first stage. By the time the program is fully operational in the 10 largest cities, there will be 1 million informant, or one for every 24 people in those cities. Civil liberties groups are already alarmed about the potential for abusive, large-scale investigations of US citizens.

Modern Conventional Warfare: An Overview [PDF] What has been happening to conventional warfare; how does it stand in relation to other forms of war around the world; and where may it be going in the future? Partly because fifteen years are not enough to provide a true perspective, partly for other reasons that will become clear in a moment, the best starting-point for answering these questions is not the end of the Cold War (1989), as was proposed by the organizers of the present conference. Instead, the starting point of paper will be the end of World War II (1945); and the perspective it takes, the widest one possible. [Link recovered 4/15/11 ~ now hosted on site!]

Why Study Small Wars? by Colonel TX Hammes, USMC. Small Wars Journal: You need to study Small Wars for the same reason our enemies do – they work. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the United States has continued to pursue high technology as the holy grail of war fighting. This is a natural outgrowth of America’s fascination with and prowess in the development, production and fielding of extraordinary high tech weapons systems. Even our European allies admit they cannot match U.S. capabilities. Pursuing this course has led to total dominance of the conventional battlefield by U.S. forces. It has even led some to believe America is so dominant on the battlefield that none would dare challenge us.

Small Wars Council is the Warriors' Council for those engaged in the practice of Small Wars. Warrior in this sense is not a military term -- successful conduct of Small Wars requires consideration and coordination across the many elements of national power and the broader international community. Bring your voice to our discussion.

Morty's Cabin - The Mexican Invasion Of America BEYOND WORDS...LOU DOBBS REFERS TO THE ILLEGALS AS AN INVADING ARMY: DOBBS: There are some Mexican citizens and some Mexican- Americans who want to see California, New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States given over to Mexico. These groups call it the reconquista, Spanish for reconquest. And they view the millions of Mexican illegal aliens in particular entering the United States as potentially an army of invaders to achieve that takeover. See also: Frosty Wooldridge -- How to Destroy America

RED DAWN- ASIAN MILITARY INVASION OF USA- A few years back I read the story of an American woman who ran a business in Hong Kong. She fired one of the Chinese workers, who went into a rage [probably justifiable] against the forces of western corporate imperialism. He told her with full assurance that one day China would stage a massive military invasion of the USA. They would flood into the coast in the millions in massive wave after wave of invaders. They expected heavy losses, however the living soldiers would simply walk over the bodies of their dead comrades, and continue the battle. They would be like a massive wave of army ants, unstoppable [consider that Red China's active military numbers well over 5 million with tens of millions of "reserves", whereas the U.S.A.'s active military force numbers less than one million, and most of these are entangled in foreign U.N. "peace keeping" operations. This does not include Russia, Cuba, the Arab League or any other nation that might choose to side with China in a military invasion of the USA]. Eventually, according to this former Chinese employee, the Americans would eventually run out of bullets and the invaders would prevail as a result of sheer numbers...

Invasion USA- America Overrun - TFP This is a discussion forum with some ... interesting... posts. See also: All Empires History Forum- Chinese Invasion of America

INVASION OF AMERICA This link may rightly belong in the conspiracy theory section, but I was working on this page when I found it, so here you go. See also: The Final Invasion Of The United States

The Military Invasion Of America by PG Wodehouse Editor's Note -- It may be thought that in this story Mr. Wodehouse has painted in too lurid colors the horrors of a foreign invasion of the United States. Realism, it may be argued, can be carried too far. We prefer to think that our readers will acquit the author of a desire to rouse America to a sense of peril, and only by setting down without flinching the results of an invasion can this be done. If McClure's and all the other magazines can do it, why shouldn't Vanity Fair have a shot at it? Mr. Wodehouse holds an established position as a military expert, his two most recent articles, "What to do When the Zeppelin Comes," and "Is It Contrary to International Law for Germany to Use Culture as a Weapon of Offense," having caused widespread comment and alarm among military students everywhere. [Link recovered 4/15/11 ~ now hosted on site!]

Stanley Kurtz on Christians and the Left on National Review Online Harper’s Magazine’s May cover stories about “The Christian Right’s War On America,” frightened me, although not the way Harper’s meant them to. I fear these stories could mark the beginning of a systematic campaign of hatred directed at traditional Christians. Whether this is what Harper’s intends, I cannot say. But regardless of the intention, the effect seems clear...

The New York Times at War With America By Michael Barone. Why do they hate us? No, I'm not talking about Islamo-fascist terrorists. We know why they hate us: because we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, because we refuse to treat women as second-class citizens, because we do not kill homosexuals, because we are a free society. No, the "they" I'm referring to are the editors of The New York Times. And do they hate us? Well, that may be stretching it. But at the least they have gotten into the habit of acting in reckless disregard of our safety.

Will China's Lust for Power Bring War to America? What will America do if someday China attacks Taiwan? Beijing recently authorized the use of force if Taiwan ever declares its independence. America has a defense treaty with Taiwan, but honoring that treaty would likely mean war with China.

Prophetic Dream - War on American Soil? "... They were flying low to the ground, and my husband (a former marine) kept saying that something just wasn't right. Then, we saw one of the planes drop a bomb on a building. Now, the bombs on these planes were not the big bombs that we see on TV. When they dropped, they took out 2-3 floors of each building. They were also manned planes. We watched in awe as a swarm of them appeared in the sky and just starting dropping bombs on building after building."

Saturday, January 06, 2007 Either World War III Starts on American Soil in 2007 Or We End The Game Now I have previously issued the warning I promised more than 20 years ago that I would give when I saw the imminent collapse of the dollar and the world economy. I did that in my last article on this blog though I had already stated several times the dollar would collapse before the end of 2009. Now I must add my second warning. I have always told my friends and acquaintances that I would warn them when WW III was imminent. I now must warn you that World War III starts before the end of 2007. And it will start on American soil.

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