Re: [rohrpost] shock and awe/ b - o - y - k - o - t - t

[SaB* <sab@kein.org>]

wenn du schon und wieder so viel nachdenkst �ber boykott und anderes
(eventuell noch ein embargo?), dann versuch doch mal vom nationalistischen
(boykotiert amerika) zum herstellerorientierten (boykotiert die
kriegsindustrie und krieggewinnler und kriegsunterst�tzer) denken zu
wechseln. dann gewinnt dein unterfangen an sch�rfe.
lg,
-- 
SaB*

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Oliver Grau wrote:

> Vielleicht waere ein Boykott amerikanischer Produkte doch noch einmal
> ernsthaft zu ueberlegen. Ich moechte meine zunaechst ablehnende Haltung
> zuruecknehmen, die nur von einer bundesrepublikanischen Perspektive
> ausging. Da mittlerweile jedoch weltweit Boykottueberlegungen diskutiert
> und begonnen werden (von Esso bis zur Filmindustrie), sollten wir uns
> anschliessen. Die alte Gandhi Idee koennte, wenn sie nun erstmals ueber das
> Netz effektiv organisiert und weltweit praktiziert wird, vielleicht doch
> Wirkung zeigen.
>
>
>
>  At 17:11 22.03.03 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >das buch zum angriff:
> >"Shock & Awe. Achieving Rapid Dominance." 1996.
> >http://www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html
> >
> >
> >kleine kostprobe:
> >
> >"It is, of course, clear that U.S. military forces are currently the
> >most capable in the world and are likely to remain so for a long time
> >to come. Why then, many will ask, should we examine and even propose
> >major excursions and changes if the country occupies this position of
> >military superiority? For reasons noted in this study, we believe
> >that excursions are important if only to confirm the validity of
> >current defense approaches. There are several overrarching realities
> >that have led us to this conclusion. First, while everyone recognizes
> >that the Cold War has ended, there is not a consensus about what this
> >means for more precisely defining the nature of our future security
> >needs. Despite this absence of both clairvoyance and a galvanizing
> >external danger, the United States is actively examining new
> >strategic options and choices. The variety of conceptual efforts
> >underway in the Pentagon to deal with this uncertainty exemplifies
> >this reality. (...)
> >
> >The aim of Rapid Dominance is to affect the will, perception, and
> >understanding of the adversary to fit or respond to our strategic
> >policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe. Clearly, the
> >traditional military aim of destroying, defeating, or neutralizing
> >the adversary's military capability is a fundamental and necessary
> >component of Rapid Dominance. Our intent, however, is to field a
> >range of capabilities to induce sufficient Shock and Awe to render
> >the adversary impotent. This means that physical and psychological
> >effects must be obtained.
> >
> >Rapid Dominance would therefore provide the ability to control, on an
> >immediate basis, the entire region of operational interest and the
> >environment, broadly defined, in and around that area of interest.
> >Beyond achieving decisive force and dominant battlefield awareness,
> >we envisage Rapid Dominance producing a capability that can more
> >effectively and efficiently achieve the stated political or military
> >objectives underwriting the use of force by rendering the adversary
> >completely impotent.
> >
> >In Rapid Dominance, "rapid" means the ability to move quickly before
> >an adversary can react. This notion of rapidity applies throughout
> >the spectrum of combat from pre-conflict deployment to all stages of
> >battle and conflict resolution.
> >
> >"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.
> >
> >(...)
> >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.
> >
> >(...)
> >The goals of achieving Rapid Dominance using Shock and Awe must be
> >compared with overwhelming force. "Rapid" implies the ability to
> >"own" the dimension of time-moving more quickly than an opponent,
> >operating within his decision cycle, and resolving conflict favorably
> >in a short period of time. "Dominance" means the ability to control a
> >situation totally.
> >
> >(...)
> >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.
> >
> >
> >(...)
> >Finally, we argue that what is also new in this approach is the way
> >in which we attempt to integrate far more broadly strategy,
> >technology, and innovation to achieve Shock and Awe. It is this
> >interaction and focus which we think will provide the most
> >interesting results."
> >usw. usw.
> >
> >
> >
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