Thank you for your excellent “Lethal Sleep” article [in which it was argued that the U.S. military are in “lethal sleep”]. If you were teaching a course on national defense what would be your foundational principles and general outline? What if you were teaching this course at the Army College (George C. Marshall Center) in Germany? Many thanks. I eagerly look forward to your response.

If the Army College did propose to me to give lectures on Western defense, I would submit an outline. Meanwhile here are just a few suggestions on what the Western military should know to win, and not make themselves ridiculous as did the Coalition in Iraq, a small Third-World country whose military budget in 2002 was $1.4 billion as against $400 billion of that of the United States.

1. Know Your Enemy, However Insignificant Your Enemy Seems to Be Before the War!

The U.S. military did not have the authority to question a government order to establish in Iraq a “democratic republic,” with the priority of the United States in the corporate extraction of oil (see Executive Order 13 303). But to overcome the guerrilla war in Iraq in accordance with the government order, the Western military should have known their enemy.”

Moslems accounted for 97 percent of Iraq’s population. Sunni comprised up to 37 percent of the Moslems, that is, about 7 million people, who were better educated than the Shi’a majority (about 12 million people) and predominated in culture, and hence in influence and power. When the Coalition troops entered Baghdad, and the statute of Saddam Hussein (a Sunni, a lawyer, and a Baath Socialist opposing foreign corporate oil extraction) was toppled, the U.S. mainstream media failed to notice that the jubilation came from the Shi’a, while Sunni launched a guerrilla war. Today, more than three years later, against the invaders are not only Sunni, that is 37 percent of Moslems, but 60 percent of all Moslems, including Shi’a, disgusted with the destruction of Iraq, and the state of permanent war.

The term “guerrilla war” appeared in English 200 years ago, but I have never heard a U.S. official using it publicly in connection with the guerrilla war in Iraq in the past three years. But guerrilla war is part of warfare, and the willful ignorance of it has led so far to the defeat, being inflicted by a small Third-World country on the United States and its allies.

2. Know the Military Era We Are Living In!

The Japanese military had failed to understand, until two U.S. nuclear bombs hit Japan’s cities in August 1945, that a new military era was on, and the country had to surrender unconditionally. We have to realize that we have been living in the era of post-nuclear super weapons. China, developing them in cooperation with Putin’s Russia, may produce a super weapon able to annihilate the United States (or the West as a whole) with impunity unless they surrender unconditionally as did Japan in September of 1945.

3. Know the Geostrategic Scene of Today!

If the Western political establishment failed to foresee in Iraq a guerrilla war, the war that had existed by this name for over 200 years, it is hard to expect the official Western foresight of the effect of post-nuclear super weapons being developed today in China in cooperation with Putin’s Russia.

It is necessary to understand that the Western preoccupations in the past 16 years with Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea are frivolous is sinister jokes compared with the super weapons developed by China in cooperation with Putin’s Russia.

4. Know What Dictatorship Is!

In Western languages the word “slavery” is applied only to small-scale ownership of slaves. But if the number of slaves runs into millions (or billions), the West respectfully applies to it all the terms of statehood. Sociologically, the dictatorship of China is an ownership of 1.3 billion slaves. Militarily, it is a military camp. The dictator can channel secretly any resources into the development of any super weapons, to suddenly annihilate any country unless it surrenders unconditionally.

Any dictatorship of a large country needs world domination because it is vulnerable from within: the Tiananmen movement of 1989 might have toppled China’s dictatorship, and, indeed, two years later the Soviet dictatorship did collapse despite its more than 70 years of propaganda, secret police, and armed forces.

5. Know How to Prevent the Annihilation of the United States or the West in General

After the United States had produced its first nuclear weapons in 1945, Soviet Russia in 1949, and China in 1964, the world peace has rested on Mutual Assured Destruction, that is, every nuclear superpower had nuclear weapons of retaliation as, for example, nuclear missiles aboard submarines submerged deeply into the ocean. No nuclear attack can destroy the Atlantic or the Pacific Oceans to find the submerged submarines of the attacked country, which could use the nuclear missiles aboard those submarines to annihilate the attacking country in retaliation.

Incidentally, this shows how ridiculous have been the alarms that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or Iran, or North Korea can fire a nuclear missile or drop a nuclear bomb. By retaliating, the aggressor will be nuked to dust. That prnciple has been applying to Russia or China since 1949 and 1964 respectively, and this applies to the small nuclear countries of today.

With new, post-nuclear super weapons, the Mutual Assured Destruction became more complicated and many-sided, but its principle remains the same. China’s dictators should know that if they use, for example, molecular nano weapons to annihilate the United States, the latter has concealed indestructible means of using molecular nano weapons to annihilate China.

6. Know the Sources of Attack and Defense: the Super Weapons!

I believe that the U.S. military should take over the super weapons intelligence (via the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is anyway better than the CIA) and super weapons development.

The attempt of Eric Drexler, the founder of nano technology (read in his book of 1986, “Engines of Creation,” Ch. 11, about molecular nano weapons) to receive allocations from the U.S. Congress for his Foresight Institute he co-founded in the same year, 1986, has been a travesty that I witnessed. If the super weapons intelligence and development remain in the hands of those who pretend that China does not exist except as a benevolent trade partner (the majority of the U.S. Congress, the government, including the CIA, the mainstream media, and their “guests,” such as professors, valued for their academic degrees and post-academic posts), a military debacle awaits the United States, compared with which the sinister and frivolous joke in Iraq will seem a brilliant victory as it was celebrated in 2003.

Lev Navrozov's (navlev@cloud9.net] new book is available on-line at www.levnavrozov.com. To request an outline of the book, send an e-mail to webmaster@levnavrozov.com.