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This is the book the enemy doesn't want you to read.... We ARE in a war for our survival. War Footing is a blueprint to not just survive this threat, but vanquish it. -- Dr. Monica Crowley
Posted on 01/18/2006 5:08:39 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2006 – The American people must remind themselves every day that the United States is at war, a top Army general said today. Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute here, said that 21st century warfare is more about "will and perception, than taking territory or enemies killed."
The will of the American people and people around the world to confront the terrorists and defeat them is the center of gravity in what Pentagon officials are calling "the long war," Odierno, assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.
The enemy realizes this, he said. "Ultimately, they believe they will be more patient than Western states and they will, over time, win out," he said.
Information is just as critical as firepower in the long war, Odierno said, and this, too, the enemy understands.
The enemy in the long war is not a traditional foe. Terror networks are "violent, elusive, global in nature and loosely connected," Odierno said. The only tie is the tie of ideology, and that ideology is to make a "caliphate" -- a land in which political, social and religious aspects of life are solidified and led by a single supreme ruler.
"The (terrorist) propaganda on the Internet is clear, they want to re-establish the caliphate," Odierno said. "The center of the caliphate was initially going to be Afghanistan and was supported by the Taliban. Once the Taliban was defeated and overthrown, they shifted. And now in all their writings they say the center of the caliphate will be in the 'Land of Two Rivers' -- Iraq."
Their goal is to start in Iraq, expand the caliphate throughout the Middle East and then ultimately across the entire world, Odierno said. "Will they do this? No," he said. "But that's their intent."
Americans need to talk about these terror goals, he said. Americans need to understand the way the terrorists think and understand the threat they pose, because this may help Americans foster the will to combat these groups, he said.
Pentagon had a poster up about a month ago that said something like "We're at War What are you doing to help?" Or something like that. Anyone have a .jpg of it?
The Country is at war...the world is at war! Our leaders have fallen asleep. Not so the leaders of the enemy.
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It was an Uncle Sam poster if I remember correctly.
If our leaders would only tell the world and lay out the strategy. We all need to be brought into the effort.
The world needs definition so it can gather itself together...so it can direct it energy against the real enemy.
Moderate muslims are not the enemy, unless they choose to be. They need to know and so do we.
In the end, a stake must be driven into the hearts of islam and mohammed.
So far, they have been half right. The Liberals, MSM and anti-war crowd gave up long ago.
Sec. Rumsfeld had them around him at a Town Hall Meeting
SEC. RUMSFELD: Now I might just call attention to the posters. There's one over there and one over there that says, "We're at war. Are you doing all you can?"
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Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left
And a very good review:
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Vastly Illuminating, September 25, 2004
| Reviewer: | Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews |
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Editorial Reviews
America has been at war for years, but until now, it has not been clear with whom or precisely for what. And we have not been using the full resources we need to win.
With the publication of War Footing, lead-authored by Frank Gaffney, it not only becomes clear who the enemy is and how high the stakes are, but also exactly how we can prevail.
War Footing shows that we are engaged in nothing less than a War for the Free World. This is a fight to the death with Islamofascists, Muslim extremists driven by a totalitarian political ideology that, like Nazism or Communism before it, is determined to destroy freedom and the people who love it.
Mr. Gaffney and his esteemed colleagues offer ten specific steps that Americans, as individuals and as communities, can take to ensure their way of life and safety and the future well-being of their children and grandchildren. These steps include detailed recommendations about how to:
-- Know the enemy
-- Really support U.S. troops
-- Provide for the country's energy security
-- Stop investing in terror
-- Equip the country for war at home
-- Counter the mega-threat: an EMP attack
-- Secure U.S. borders and the interior against illegal immigration
-- Wage political warfare
-- Launch regional initiatives
-- Wield effective diplomacy
This book is a highly readable and definitive owners manual for the War for the Free World. Whether we like it or not, every American owns a stake in its outcome. War Footing tells us how we can make sure it comes out right.
About the Author
Frank Gaffney is one of the most thoughtful and visible national security experts of our time. He held senior positions in the Reagan Defense Department and on the staffs of leading Democratic and Republican senators.
Since he founded the Washington, D.C.- based Center for Security Policy in 1988, Mr. Gaffney and his organization have become widely recognized by policy makers, the media, and the public alike as go-to sources for timely, informed, and articulate analysis of current defense and foreign policy developments.
Under Mr. Gaffney s leadership, the Center for Security Policy has promoted policies consistent with the Reagan philosophy of peace through strength. To advance this agenda, the organization brings together and works with many of America’s finest security policy practitioners and other experts. As a group, they comprise the Special Forces in the War of Ideas. War Footing is their playbook.
Among those who contributed brilliant analyses and commonsense recommendations to War Footing are: R. James Woolsey, Victor Davis Hanson, General Tom McInerney, General Paul Vallely, Alex Alexiev, Andrew McCarthy, Claudia Rosett, Michael Rubin, Daniel Goure, Caroline Glick, and Michael Waller. Their inputs - and those of twenty other contributors - help make this strategy for winning the War for the Free World as readable as it is needed.
21st century warfare is more about "will and perception, than taking territory or enemies killed."
There is merit to this statement. However, my gut tells me that the Enemy will PERCEIVE that he's winning if we DON'T kill him and take his territory.
If there is a spiritual world (and most people either agree that there is or that such is extremely likely), islam isn't just a system of belief. It was founded by a force, a spiritual force. The power that founded islam will not permit its moderation.
The core of islam seems evil...and powerful. Islam will destroy this planet if it cannot rule. Islam must die...or it will kill all non-muslims, IMHO!
Love the graphics SandRat!
BTTT
Touching post, Sandy
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