SHOCK & AWE: The Zhirinovsky Connection/russian/usa 1996 doc

[tlcandie]

http://www.spiritoftruth.org/j05.html

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"I am the Almighty. I am the Tyrant.
I will follow in Hitler's footsteps."
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A major part of the Zhirinovsky connection is his supposed ties to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Zhrininovsky's first diplomatic trip was to Baghdad, Iraq in November of 1992. According to Zhirinovsky, Iraq is Russia's "natural ally" because Russia has "the same enemies of Iraq- America, Israel, and Turkey". As Zhirinovsky sees it, "America and Israel are both conducting wars against Russia and Iraq", and Iraq "is (a) faithful ally who will never betray (Russia)". During his visit to Baghdad, Zhirinovsky supposedly lectured to Saddam Hussein for nearly four hours on the need to unite against the "American-Israeli plot" to dominate the world.
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If, indeed, the true powers-that-be in Russia are staging Zhirinovsky's rise to power, then it is important to determine what their strategy is. In a general sense, the strategy appears to involve waging a third world war while having it appear to be the fault of world capitalism rather than communism. According to Marxist-Leninist doctrine, if democracy fails to serve the purposes of capitalism, then democracy is overthrown and replaced with facism. This is supposedly what happened in Weimar Germany and led to World War II. By staging Russia's transformation into a capitalist democracy, and by having Russian society collapse into the same situation as Weimar Germany, the stage has been set for a shift to facism and the rise of a militant, Hitler-like dictator: Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Once this is done, an all-out third world war can be launched against Russia's enemies-of-old: Israel, America, and the Western allies. After the dust settles, the communists, likely converted to orthodoxy, can retake power and claim they are saving the world from the evils of the capitalist system. Thus, Russia's rulers will have successfully waged both a military and ideological war against the West.
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Original Shock & Awe origination document.. 1996
Achieving Rapid Dominance...

http://www.mapcruzin.com/shock-and-awe/shockIndex.html

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"Dominance" means the ability to affect and dominate an adversary's will both physically and psychologically. Physical dominance includes the ability to destroy, disarm, disrupt, neutralize, and to render impotent. Psychological dominance means the ability to destroy, defeat, and neuter the will of an adversary to resist; or convince the adversary to accept our terms and aims short of using force. The target is the adversary's will, perception, and understanding. The principal mechanism for achieving this dominance is through imposing sufficient conditions of "Shock and Awe" on the adversary to convince or compel it to accept our strategic aims and military objectives. Clearly, deception, confusion, misinformation, and disinformation, perhaps in massive amounts, must be employed.

The key objective of Rapid Dominance is to impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on. In crude terms, Rapid Dominance would seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary's perceptions and understanding of events that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at tactical and strategic levels. An adversary would be rendered totally impotent and vulnerable to our actions. To the degree that non-lethal weaponry is useful, it would be incorporated in the ability to Shock and Awe and achieve Rapid Dominance.

Theoretically, the magnitude of Shock and Awe Rapid Dominance seeks to impose (in extreme cases) is the non-nuclear equivalent of the impact that the atomic weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on the Japanese. The Japanese were prepared for suicidal resistance until both nuclear bombs were used. The impact of those weapons was sufficient to transform both the mindset of the average Japanese citizen and the outlook of the leadership through this condition of Shock and Awe. The Japanese simply could not comprehend the destructive power carried by a single airplane. This incomprehension produced a state of awe.

We believe that, in a parallel manner, revolutionary potential in combining new doctrine and existing technology can produce systems capable of yielding this level of Shock and Awe. In most or many cases, this Shock and Awe may not necessitate imposing the full destruction of either nuclear weapons or advanced conventional technologies but must be underwritten by the ability to do so.
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[tlcandie]

1. More...

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Rapid Dominance must be all-encompassing. It will require the means to anticipate and to counter all opposing moves. It will involve the capability to deny an opponent things of critical value, and to convey the unmistakable message that unconditional compliance is the only available recourse. It will imply more than the direct application of force. It will mean the ability to control the environment and to master all levels of an opponent's activities to affect will, perception, and understanding. This could include means of communication, transportation, food production, water supply, and other aspects of infrastructure as well as the denial of military responses. Deception, misinformation, and disinformation are key components in this assault on the will and understanding of the opponent.

Total mastery achieved at extraordinary speed and across tactical, strategic, and political levels will destroy the will to resist. With Rapid Dominance, the goal is to use our power with such compellance that even the strongest of wills will be awed. Rapid Dominance will strive to achieve a dominance that is so complete and victory is so swift, that an adversary's losses in both manpower and material could be relatively light, and yet the message is so unmistakable that resistance would be seen as futile.
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In both relative and absolute terms, since the end of World War II, the military strength and capability of the United States have never been greater. Yet this condition of virtual military superiority has created a paradox. Absent a massive threat or massive security challenge, it is not clear that this military advantage can (always) be translated into concrete political terms that advance American interests. Nor is it clear that the current structure and foundations for this extraordinary force can be sustained for the long term without either spending more money or imposing major changes to this structure that may exceed the capacity of our system to accommodate. As a consequence, the success of the current design and configuration of our forces may ironically become self-limiting and constraining. That is not to claim automatically that there are better military solutions or that the current defense program is not the best our political system can produce. It is to say, however, that we are well-advised to pursue alternate ideas and concepts to balance and measure against the current and planned program.
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nor an absence of evil-doers wishing this nation harm
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[tlcandie]

2. This may have all been linked previously.. I may have missed it

I find it VERY interesting. It seems to me that Iraq was targeted as an experiment/test by this administration which WAS put forth in this 1996 original Shock/Awe document....only because there was no other scenario they could imagine in drawing up these plans at the time.

Of course, resources and strategic bases were the other issue. The three Afghanistan bases follow the NEW gas line across west to east.

[WMliberal]

3. learned about him in comparative politics

our prof was terrified of this guy possibly coming to power.
another part of his platform was to "nuke Japan" because of economic rivalry.
at least with putin becoming so autocratic, zhirinovsky has almost no chance.

[tlcandie]

4. Did you read the original Shock and Awe developed in

US in 1996? I hear echoes of this admin's talk in it! It is where they developed the PNAC plan and Rummy's new military operations.

More from the article above..

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Suppose a Desert Storm-type campaign were fought 20 years from now based on a plan that exploited the concept of Rapid Dominance. Further assume that Iraq has improved (and rebuilt) its military and that, in a series of simultaneous and nearly instantaneous actions, our primary objective was still to shut Iraq down, threaten or destroy its leadership, and isolate and destroy its military forces as we did in 1991. However, two decades hence, Rapid Dominance might conceivably achieve this objective in a matter of days (or perhaps hours) and not after the 6 months or the 500,000 troops that were required in 1990 to 1991. Rapid Dominance may even offer the prospect of stopping an invasion in its tracks.

Shutting the country down would entail both the physical destruction of appropriate infrastructure and the shutdown and control of the flow of all vital information and associated commerce so rapidly as to achieve a level of national shock akin to the effect that dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on the Japanese. Simultaneously, Iraq's armed forces would be paralyzed with the neutralization or destruction of its capabilities. Deception, disinformation, and misinformation would be applied massively.
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[WMliberal]

5. yeah, i didn't give it much thought

how naive of me. It was the 90's, all I saw around me was peace and prosperity.