Saturday, April 11, 2020

Unrestricted Warfare - New Doctrines in Modern Warfare (In Relation to Covid 19)

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Rizal Philippines
April 11, 2020

Confronting UnRestricted Warfare | Military.com



The First Rule Of Unrestricted Warfare : ConspiracyMemes


Unrestricted warfare

Some years ago, I taught in a leading university graduate school course innovation as part of entrepreneurship course.   The rule in innovation is first there is no rule.

Thus, this document could very well entitled innovation in military principles.

Due to the emergence of Covid 19 infecting more than a million, and killing more than 60,000 and bringing down the whole world to its knees (crash of stockmarket, shortage of hospital supplies, lack of vaccine) this document comes to our mind, having been mentioned in number of documents and videos, ie that this writing must have been imbibed by the civilian and military leaders in China to pursue this action.

The authors, colonels at PLA wrote this document in February 1999 and talks about use of means military and non military means to achieve a country's goal of achieving its goal (of dominating another country)
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiashou.  

The document should be read by our civilian and military leaders (at National Defense College) which teaches military stragegy.  While we struggling with politics, our would be master are putting one over us, for using a combination of military and non military means.    (Some in the govt, by using media in battle for supremacy are employing some of the principles.)

Some of the notes/observations in document

1.   War is an activity using military and non military means, using limited resources to achieve superiority over other nations

2. Might is right.   Those who have more soldiers and weapons win the war

3. Use of technology in weapons:   technology dictate the weapon to be used, or warfare dictate what technology to be used.

4. With technology the distinction between military and non military action becomes blurred.

5.  With high technology comes the need for a variety of weapons to achieve a goal.  As much as 300 weapons are needed to win a war. Sometimes the search for high tech weapon could bankrupt a country as it did to Russia (as it is doing to US where a B2 bomber cost can exceed $billions

6. There are variety of weapons to be used in todays conflict:   financial, trade and ecological (like poisoning lakes and  rivers/water supply) and the effects could be more devastating than a nuclear war.

7.  There should be distinction between soldiers of war, and/or hackers or financiers like George Soro who can disrupt currency exchange rate, or can disrupt computer network.    And  a wise general/leader should be able to exploit both military and non military means to subjugate other nations...   The scope and breath of war has radically changed.

8. The Desert Storm War:

     Some lessons learned:

     1.  It was  42 day war accomplished in 38 days with Air Force taking the lead

     2.  The main weapon of victory were the helicopters but were not noticed after the war

     3. It was achieved at great cost of $61B and was like shooting birds with golden bullets

     4. The war worked because of reorganization of DOD between Powell and Schwarskopf
          But the US military did not learn from it because of conflict among Airforce, Navy and Army

     5.  It worked because of addition and combination (of allied forces which was worked on brilliantly
         by diplomats

     6.  War can be fought side by side with media (CNN) because it can be used as propaganda
          and could change the disposition and morale of enemies

     7.   Powell and Schwarskopf, although they won the Desert Storm could not be considered great
          generals because they used traditional methods using high tech weapons to win the war.

         They did not understand the new concept of war.  Modern warfare..

9.  Some recommendation:

    1. Use of golden number (as in Da Vinci Code)   1:681

    2. Side by side

    3. Cocktails (of means to achieve superiority)

    4.  Removing boundaries: between military means and non military means, personnel and weapons.
         A modem a cp, laptop could be as lethal as a nuclear bomb.  Or a tomahawk.

Many of the Generals could be inept in adapting these methods and strategy




Saturday, November 5, 2016

Who will be the next US President?

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It will be only 3 days before the US election.  Presidentiable Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are neck to neck  with 46 % surveyed in favor of Clinton and 45% to Donald Trump.  The gap was wide before until the FBI resumed its investigation on private emails of Clinton while still Secy of State. Trump lagged behind when issue of sexual misconduct surfaced.

Fil Ams Chinese, and South Koreans want a Clinton victory.   Trump is xenophobic and threatened to bring back manufacturing back to US and renegotiate trade deals

I predict a Clinton win.   Clinton knows how to counter the acrimonious ranting of Trump

Monday, May 16, 2016

Duterte bares plan for his new govt

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Philippine May 16, 2016

From Sunstar


Presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte bared his plan of govt in a ;press con held in Davao City today.   Duterte said that he is not an expert in economics, if he disappointed the MBC, but he is ready to handle the law and order the problems that ;prevent us from achieving our growth and full potential.

In a typical Malcolm  Gladwell turning point broken window passion, he plans:

1 To restore death penalty, by hanging for heinous crimes

2.  To prohibit drunken driving/and or penalize the same, and no more drinking rowdiness beyond 10 pm.  He cites the difficulties of a common suffering family stressed by traffic and lack of sleep commuting, suffering from broken down MRT trains.

3  He will ;prohibit the collection of fees from school children, because he said this is extortion;

4.  He will remove obstructions from roadway.

5. He does not want any govt official to go to his office currying for promotion (all ready hordes are flocking to Davao to precisely do that)  He will make the final decision on who gets the job even with the screening committee

6.  He warns taxi drivers vs not giving any change.  Taxi drivers in MM watch out.

7.  He wants govt officials especially police involved in crimes, like drugs to resign now or else suffer the consequences.  (This is bad news for some political kingpins in my province and nearby whose top dogs are alleged to be involved in crimes.  They get rich and destroy the lives of youth.  They are hypocrites and therefore must die by hanging

8.  He will prohibit the licensing of heavy firearms

9.  No more Lakbay Aral

Duterte is in a way announcing he is the boss, he knows  what he is doingj.  By working on small things around the big problems, he is laying down the foundation for discipline and obedience..  He talks about common small problems that have high impact on many Filipinos (at the risk of being called a micromanager, a just of the city mayor type of leadership)1.   but that is a good start.

He welcomes member of the CPP for cabinet positions in the govt like /DAR, DOLE, DENR.  He plans to free political prisoners (GMA) as part of confidence building.

Some possible cabinet members:   From Rappler - Duterte names possible cabinet members

1.  Presidential Spokesperson - Salvador Medialdea

2.  Executive Secretary - Salvador Panelo

3   Art Tugade (formerly from CDC) for DOTC sec

4  Sonny Dominguez (his campaign manager ) for DOF

5.  Peter Alan Cayetano for DOF or DOJ (but after one year)  Perfecto Yasay could be the OIC

6.  Peter Laurel of Lyceum -  Dep Ed

Dureza will be for peace process. He is not a laude student, but the valedictorians:  Dureza and Sonny Dominguez will be working for him to help him run our country well (good selector of great people)

As an adroit politician, Duterte loves to integrate and get various people working together sometimes with opposing views (hehe to get them on their toes and make them competitive). He will get normal people, NPA, even ROTC  for drug campaign working together. While the Press Con was going on, NP leaders arrived for signing of coalition agreement. The NP heads included former Sen. Manny Villar.