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#146437Sat 10/09/11 11:31

Strategy of Tension

You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the State to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the State cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened...

A whole mechanism came into action - that is, the carabinieri, the Minister of the Interior, the customs services and the military and civilian intelligence services accepted the ideological reasoning behind the attack.

-- Vincenzo Vinciguerra - quoted in The Observer, 7 June 1992

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The Grand Chessboard

America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation... the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being... Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization...

Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski - September 1998

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Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force

Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of U.S. national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets. The United States cannot simply declare a "strategic pause" while experimenting with new technologies and operational concepts. Nor can it choose to pursue a transformation strategy that would decouple American and allied interests.

A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies.

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

-- The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) - September 2000

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http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/gladio_obs_7jun1992.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Vinciguerra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

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