Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
There is one reason for war: defense. Even perpetrators of offensive war drape their actions in the pretense of defense, so patent and potent is the single reason for war. All nations today, excepting three, are in defensive posture. The three in offensive posture are: Saudi Arabia, Iran and China (and here). The aim of defensive war — which is the aim of war per se because only defensive war is legitimate — is annihilation of the enemy’s will to offend, their taste for belligerency. The will to offend is the enemy. Not a people, not a nation, not a culture, but their will, if that is to offend. That must be defeated. Not a people, a nation or a culture per se. When a people develop a will to offend, then they become an enemy. There is only one way to annihilate an enemy’s will to offend: march a victorious army into her capital city and occupy it until that enemy’s will to offend is certifiably extinct. This lets them know that they are well and truly licked.
The goal of war is to defeat a will to offend. The means to defeat such a will is military, financial and diplomatic victory followed by occupation. Not indeed permanent occupation, but long enough to drown and demolish the coals of belligerency.
Her land forces are a nation’s primary tool for conducting war (= defense). Only a land force can subdue an enemy’s lust. Air, sea, cyber and space forces can cause an enemy grief but cannot subdue her lust. That is the job of land forces fighting through full-spectrum warfare to victory and occupation until the enemy — the will to offend — has ceased to exist. However, land forces require land approaches to an enemy. Manageable and reliable ones. So, with respect to these three enemies — Saud, Iran, China — who are enemies by virtue of their offensive posture and not for any other reason — the question is, how to approach them by land and maintain communications with the attacking land force through those or other approaches subsequently created.
Defeat of the Saudi will to offend is not a difficult problem to solve. An army operating with the resources of full-spectrum warfare can get near her borders and into her capital city from several directions without too much difficulty. In the Saudi case, defeat of the will to offend requires hanging the scholars, sheiks, mullahs and imams — and their unsurrendered family members over the age of sixteen — and exiling the so-called royal family … and without their bank accounts and properties.
Defeat of the Iranian will to offend is a difficult problem to solve. And daily more so. Temporizing is deferred cost. It has been so since 1979. But the problem is solvable, as all problems are. With full-spectrum military operations and participation of regional allies — Kurds (and here), Jordanians, Israelis, Iraqis, Egyptians, possibly Russians, possibly Pakistanis — victorious land forces can roll into Tehran and Qom. There are both land and sea approaches to Iran capable of supporting full-spectrum military operations into and across the country. Ayatollahs and their unsurrendered family members over the age of sixteen dangling from lamp posts.
China (and here), with North Korea as her client provocateur, is the major problem. It is rightly said — General of the Army MacArthur said it, for example — that no country in their right mind wants to conduct a land war in China. The reason is the precarity of land force approaches to China and communication lines supporting them. However, what about a partnership of countries, to include countries contiguous with the frontiers of China? This is the grand strategic security reason to seek partnership between USA, Russia and India. There are also cultural and economic reasons, but focus here is on the strategic security reason shared by USA, Russia and India. Even by Persia once free of the ayatollahs.
USA, Russia and India are three large nations in defensive posture. All have deep reasons for wanting China to climb down and join them in that posture. All know China will not do that voluntarily. China (and here) thinks long and patiently, and now imperialistically. War is inevitable. Why conduct it at China’s leisure? These three potential partners, with others, can be taken piecemeal by Chinese offensive war or be actual partners to haul down that belligerent hegemon to a normal defensive posture. The partnership creates sustainable land approaches to conducting full-spectrum war in China, the which only will subdue her rampancy to defense. March land forces of USA, Russia and India into Beijing, conduct a freedom occupation, extirpate PLA and Central Committee leadership — and their unsurrendered family members over the age of sixteen — and China will climb down.
Of these three potential allies, two — Russia and India — remember centuries of Turanian offense, subjugation and, at least for Russia, gene-splicing. Americans have a usually unconscious awareness of ancestors threatened with or subjected to over-run by the Mongoloid/Turanian yellow horde (and here).
In the case of a belligerent nation, note that the offending particular is in the dimension of pneuma — will — not in the dimension of psyche — mind — or the dimension of soma — body. However, because the human personality is a unified whole, to get to the problem at pneuma, transit must be made of soma and psyche. Thus Sir Basil Henry Liddell-Hart: The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
Update 1: And Al Saud intends to keep it up. See also here.
Update 2: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy. At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:
Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.
It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.
The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?
Related: On 04 March 2015 Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS. I commented:
I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public. Thank you, General! Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back. And they will be that. This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening. I am content.
Update 3: An interesting comment string arose at Instapundit when Glenn Reynolds referenced Mark Cunningham on the subject of what The Fraud should say about Islam. I commented as follows, making an important observation regarding the effect of religion on affairs:
Were I to take Cunningham’s essay as serious thought — and I think it is not — I would say his face is too close to the canvas, he has seen a couple of swirls of paint and yelled, “Eureka!” Were he serious, he would pull back to ponder the whole canvas or at least more of it than has caught his fancy. His enthusiasm would, shall we say, moderate.
Serious, productive thought cannot come from other than a monastic. Men and women bearing the daily burdens and cares of life, such as Cunningham, simply cannot and will not create intellectual and moral forms that benefit anyone lastingly. They are too busy, and justly so, one hopes. Such men and women can use such forms once they are created, but create them they can not and will not. Those stepped way back from the canvas — monastics — do that. The truth is the whole.
Update 4: Richard Butrick, in 2012: It’s The Mullahs, Stupid. And in 2015: The Vast Majority Of Muslims.
Update 5: Regarding developments in North Korea.
Update 6: Daniel Greenfield: The Left Is Eating Itself.
Glenn Reynolds notes the phenomenon via an incident at Scripps College
Update 7: Southern Poverty Communist Law Center put ten American women on its hit list.
Update 8: Spengler: Balance Of Power – The Board Game
Update 9: By this and so many other novel and dangerous developments, a complete, fresh international strategic partnership structure is indicated, forged from the common core of three brother nations: USA, Russia and India.
Update 10: Very interesting. A thought I had from this: depending on how it’s done, rooting out evil can cost more than the destruction evil perpetrates; in such a case, therefore, there must some measuring means other than cost/benefit analysis that compels movement to root out evil in preference to joining or tolerating it.
Probably has lessons for facing down this generation’s evil caller: Salafist Jihad in its many, many guises.
Somewhat related: a stat that has impressed me through the years: GOA MacArthur went from Brisbane to Tokyo with fewer casualties than the Navy sustained, with four Army and two Marine Divisions, at Okinawa alone. I forget the exact SWPA figure, low 50Ks. So there are methods of rooting out evil that incur less cost than the destruction evil perpetrates.
The great Hebrew Prophets did very much see the Almighty conducting Holy War. They describe it with considerable color.
Update 11: Iran, India, Russia, Kurdistan, Iraq, O My!
Update 12: … a century of wars, revolution, civil wars and communist misrule that killed off a quarter of the population had an enormous impact on Russians. Morale: What Changed In Russia
Update 13: How Poland Saved The World From Russia
Update 14: StrategyPage: Leadership: SWOs Go WTF Against The USN
Update 15: StrategyPage: Attrition: Where Have All The Good Officers Gone?
Update 16: Spengler: Mitt Romney was wrong. Russia isn’t the biggest threat to the United States.
My comment: Indeed, Russia is not the biggest threat to the USA. But noting that is not solving the problem. Nor is saying jihadism is. After WWII an international structure was created to keep the peace and stable communications.
That structure’s obsolescence by on-going natural hubbub of nations — and anti-national sovereignty activists — demands a new, fresh structure for doing the same: keep the peace and guarantee communications. The Solons (statesmen) have NOT produced the same.
Here is a suggestion: Three Brothers Doctrine.
Update 17: The Fraud rejects cooperation with Russia in Syria.
Update 18: China is a nation of slavers. China cannot be stood down without being triangulated. That is by USA, India and Russia. Reference the geography. Only way to do it. There is the third offset strategy. It’s spiritual first, then diplomatic, military and financial, with technological later. Technology is merely means. Various kinds of pencils. That is all. There is no technological solution to any problem. Technology simply embodies a problem’s solution into a reproducible form. Problems are solved in will, ideation and mathematics. Technology is a result of those.
Update 19: Do Not Spare Pakistan
Update 20: Sundance: Chinese Central Planners Forecast “Weak Growth” in Manufacturing and Housing …
I commented: I might be less downright about alliance between Russia and China. I see cooperation on specifics there but not fundamental common interest or presence in being. Russia has considerable common interest and presence in being with both India and USA. And they with Russia. So I would factor, as a squeeze, an alliance among those three leaving China no chair to sit in. Frankly, that alliance — USA, India, Russia — is the grand throttle on China’s hegemonic aspirations. There is not another one entirely able to do the job.
Update 21: L. Todd Wood: Putin Getting Played By China, Needs A Deal With Trump
Update 22: ISW: How We Got Here With Russia: The Kremlin’s Worldview
Update 23: James P. Pinkerton: Why Buying Greenland Is One Of Donald Trump’s Best Ideas
Update 24: Anthony Vinci: How to Stop China From Imposing Its Values
America’s alliances were built to address a Soviet military threat. The economic bullying that Beijing uses requires a different kind of collective self-defense.
This is a hoot! Vinci calls for a solution to the problem I have already solved with Three Brothers Doctrine.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA