I have a piece up at Asia Times—only at Asia Times!
Exclusive!—‘Beheading’
Kim: Pre-emptive Strikes are Back and Headed for China, on the
implications of the leaked US decapitation strategy for North Korea.
In my opinion a) the US is testdriving an eventual
pre-emption posture for the PRC in North Korea and b) it locks the US and its
adversaries into an escalating threat dynamic that, for the United States is
more feature than bug.
It’s a revolutionary development in U.S. strategy, in my
opinion, reflecting an awareness that the PRC has been successful in evading
U.S. deterrent posturing, so something bigger, dumber, and more dangerous is
needed.
An article
at by William Arkin at Vice News provides some more details on the North Korea
contingency plans and, in the process, reveals a certain amount of confusion
about the pre-emptive character of the decapitation strategy and what it means:
Since 2005, according
to an intelligence source who spoke on background, the number of indication and
warning reports on North Korea has increased from 60 a day to 600. "There
isn't a mouse that scurries in the DMZ without note," the analyst claims.
The end product, US military insiders think, is 100 percent alert capability in
the event of a North Korean attack — a somewhat confusing concept considering
an alert would demand action before an attack.
In other words, “decapitate on alert”, with the U.S.
military claiming the ability to predict “100%” that the North Koreans are
going to attack, and establishing the justification for launching a pre-emptive
“decapitation” strike on that basis.
Wonder if there’s an algorithm covering Aggressive Mouse Movements in the DMZ. Attack!
It should be pointed out how additional surveillance factors
provide more reasons for attack. Something
to think about when considering the motivations and significance for the US
push to deploy THAAD—with its 1000 mile look-in into PRC airspace—into South Korea. How much if at all does the algo use an absence of detected threat activity to discount the overall threat calculus? Or does it only factor in detected activities construed as threats, i..e. more data = more threat? Inquiring minds want to know.
Anybody who believes that the U.S. military genuinely
possesses 100% omniscience and, indeed, would never launch a pre-emptive attack
as a matter of convenience and with less than 100% assurance an attack was
actually coming, please form a line to the left for our presentation on our
revolutionary Brooklyn Bridge timeshare.
The rest of us, please reflect on the fact that William
Arkin, who was privileged with a backgrounder on the strategy, finds it
“somewhat confusing” i.e. apparently has some difficulty in wrapping his mind
around the fact that the United States has declared the ability to unilaterally
and secretly define an imminent threat and launch a pre-emptive attack on that
basis.
Switching from “deterrence” to “pre-emption” is a
revolutionary step. It’s also
self-escalating, since the response to “pre-emption on alert” for the DPRK (and
also the PRC) is to switch to “Launch on Warning” for their strategic arsenals. And, of course, when an adversary switches to
LOW, the case for “pre-emption on alert” is automatically strengthened.
Arkin does, at least, have an awareness of what the
pre-emptive doctrine implies for “use it or lose it” military planners:
As irrational as the
North is portrayed in the West, its actions aren't totally without reason. Its
military statement in response to this year's exercises accused the US and the
South of rehearsing a "decapitation operation" that would produce the
"collapse of the [North Korean] system."
Pyongyang warns that North
Korea will strike out if the regime detects the "slightest" effort to
target what it called "the supreme nerve center." And yet that
targeting is already going on, the insane tyranny of sensible but self-defeating
actions on both sides to preserve the peace. The South is threatened, the North
is threatened, and the two sides, convinced they are right, ratchet up
preparedness to a point where conflict becomes more and more likely.
One might draw the implication that an officially endorsed
pre-emption strategy is stupid, escalating, and destabilizing.
Maybe it is, but “stupid, escalating, and destabilizing” is
how the U.S. military likes it, in my opinion.
The U.S. military is supremely confident of its ability to dish it out
and not take it in, especially with the US homeland a few thousand miles out of
harm’s way.
Same applies to China.
The U.S. military (and, I expect, much of the government and
almost all of thinktankistan) wants the PRC to start thinking about a
pre-emption threat, especially as the geniuses in Washington struggle to come
to terms with the fact that the spectacularly misconceived South China Sea
gambit is floundering as the PRC dodges confrontation with the US Navy and US
deterrent forces while solidifying its strategic position in the SCS.
Time to fail upward a.k.a. escalate, in other words. If the PRC won’t challenge US military force
directly, then it’s time to switch to a pre-emption narrative and freely impute
PRC threats wherever and whenever we want to see them and put the PRC under
threat of a pre-emptive strike no matter what they do or don’t do.
It would behoove readers with an interest in World War III and what it means to them to start looking critically at the drumbeat of US reports about PRC "escalating" & "increasing tensions" & "militarizing" in light of a US search for pretexts to strengthen justification for a pre-emptive doctrine.
Here's a good example of the hypothetical threat boondoggle.
It would behoove readers with an interest in World War III and what it means to them to start looking critically at the drumbeat of US reports about PRC "escalating" & "increasing tensions" & "militarizing" in light of a US search for pretexts to strengthen justification for a pre-emptive doctrine.
Here's a good example of the hypothetical threat boondoggle.
Civilian resistance to living under the cloud of a looming
pre-emptive strike threat might complicate this strategy, but thanks to the
efforts of Western journos, look forward to this issue getting obscured,
misexplained, or just plain lied about, so that a massive destabilizing
military doctrine can be implemented in plain sight without its implications
being adequately understood.
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Meanwhile the Presidentials look like a Ladder Match between China hating Trump and trigger happy Hilary.
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