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‘The Big Weekend Show’ hits the streets of New York City to ask about tariffs and trade deals under President Donald Trump on ‘Talk of the Town.’ #foxnews #usnews #economy #trump #tariffs …WATCH HERE…
Cognizing Conflict and Threat
Some military experts have confused the American public to a degree. For an example, look to this quote from David Kilcullen, former COIN adviser to Gen. David Petraeus. In his book “The Accidental Guerrilla”, effective counterinsurgency provides human security to the population, where they live, 24 hours a day and not destroying the enemy. No wonder Americans are confused. They should be after reading statements like that. Destroying the enemy may not be the central task, but destroying his will to fight is, and to think otherwise is to ignore the whole history of warfare. If the history of warfare has shown us anything, it is that breaking the enemy’s will is best facilitated by constant physical attrition — something that America’s enemies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan seem to grasp well. Sapping the enemy of his will to continue engaging in armed violence is — and must always be — the prime goal. On this, there should be no compromise. …READ MORE…
An Update on China’s Strategic Goals and Initiatives, Part I-The Trump administration is developing countermeasures
Tanner Greer is Director of the Center for Strategic Translation, which is a research center that investigates and analyzes Chinese politics. He postulates that the overriding strategic goal of the Chinese Communist Party (and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in particular) is “to restore China to a position of glory and influence commensurate with its ancestral heritage.” To this goal should be added a commensurate domestic objective to maintain the legitimacy of the authoritarian rule of the CCP in perpetuity, including the crushing of all dissension and threats to the CCP. …READ MORE…
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