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writing“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
John Stuart Mill
“There is no such thing as just a war. What we are doing is casting out Satan by Satan.”
Charles Sorley, (1915)
1. War doesn’t change anything.
2. Victory is impossible today.
3. Insurgencies can never be defeated.
4. There’s no military solution; only negotiations can solve our problems.
5. When we fight back, we only provoke our enemies.
6. Killing terrorists only turns them into martyrs.
7. If we fight as fiercely as our enemies, we’re no better than them.
8. The United States is more hated today than ever before.
9. Our invasion of Iraq created our terrorist problems.
10. If we just leave, the Iraqis will patch up their differences on their own.
11. It’s all Israel’s fault. Or the popular Washington corollary: “The Saudis are our friends.”
12. The Middle East’s problems are all America’s fault.
Ralph Peters, retired Army officer, strategist and author, including the recent “Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century”, in The American Legion Magazine, November 2007
Strategies of the Self
1. Declare war on your enemies: Polarity
You cannot fight effectively unless you can identify them. Learn to smoke them out, then inwardly declare war. Your enemies can fill you with purpose and direction.
2. Do not fight the last war: Guerilla-war-of-the-mind
Wage war on the past and ruthlessly force yourself to react to the present. Make everything fluid and mobile.
3. Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind: Counterbalance
Keep your presence of mind whatever the circumstances. Make your mind tougher by exposing it to adversity. Learn to detach youself from the chaos of the battlefied.
4. Create a sense of urgency and desperation: Death-ground
Place yourself where you back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.
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“Few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war.”
David Dellinger
In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.
– Will Durant, Arial Durant, The Lessons of History
“Tidigare uppfattade man kriget så att det fanns tydliga frontlinjer mellan de stridande: en armé stod mot en annan armé. Nu har man en ny typ av konflikter. Irak är ett klassiskt exempel på detta. Det finns en verklig konflikt, men inte en konflikt mellan två fientliga arméer. Det finns bara en armé, den amerikanska. Däremot finns det en annorlunda motståndare som syns i olika former av bombdåd, gerillaattacker i städerna och så vidare. Där har man en mycket farlig motståndare som är osynlig och omöjlig att få tag i. Därför kan konflikten vara hur länge som helst om inte den ena parten drar sig ut.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski, i Hufvudstadsbladet, 25 september 2005
Sverige hjälper USA i krigsplanerna mot Iran, enligt Jan Guillou.
Vi har tränat den amerikanska flottan att uppspåra och bekämpa sådana ubåtar som Iran - och Kina - disponerar. … En dieselelektrisk ubåt som de svenska i Gotlandsklassen eller de iranska eller kinesiska i Kiloklassen är oerhört mycket tystare än en atomubåt. … Att Sverige tränar den amerikanska flottan för krig mot Iran sker ju bakom ryggen på det svenska folket.