The Strategy of the World Police

Every now and then, the United States reviews its military posture. This has been the case following recent orders from its commander in chief, Barack Obama. The Pentagon has unveiled a new war plan, and has been given the green light. They say that their motive is austerity, but the truth is something else entirely.

The plan is not simple, frugal, nor meager in cost. However, it is well-devised for current and future wars with two purposes: To enlist fewer men and to develop an armament built on robotics and advanced technology. Having fewer men implies fewer salaries to pay and doing away with billions of dollars paid to disabled veterans. Advanced technology will allow for a clear advantage over any adversary.

Obama’s statement “smaller conventional ground forces,” is a covert lie, because Washington is replacing its uniformed soldiers with private armies. These armies, which will be protected by the drones’ bombings, will be made up of mercenaries acting as conventional ground forces.

The plan was revealed — as far as its confession of multiple secrets, dirty tactics, and war crimes — in the first week of this year. It reaffirmed the intentions of a nation built on a world police force.

The spending cuts are an optical illusion made to mislead the exhausted taxpayers, who this year will go back to the polls to vote for their next White House representative. Obama’s speech was proof of this illusion and of the false promises in respect to the Department of Defense’s budget, which will be approximately $523 billion. The budget does not include the ongoing wars, nuclear arsenal, and subsidies on arms exports to countries like Israel.

An article on the website Other Words has revealed that the U.S. military budget is greater than those of the next 14 countries combined. According to experts, the declared spending cuts will be hardly 4 percent. Bear in mind how Obama contradicted himself when he said that the budget would “still grow, because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership.” “Responsibilities” and “leadership” are self-serving euphemisms for achieving world domination at the U.S.’s pleasure and convenience.

Even when the Republican legislators and presidential nominees accuse Obama of being weak in terms of defense, it has nothing to do with reality, but everything to do with their election campaigns. More than a few of them have promised everything from bringing Syria to “democracy” at gunpoint, to returning troops to Iraq.

In the shadow of World War II and above all, the Cold War, the United States has militarized its economy and politics. It has done absolutely nothing to divert the course of what President Dwight Eisenhower called “the military-industrial complex.” It has no logic other than war, war, and war, despite the words of the one seeking re-election. He may condemn the years of his predecessor, but he does not dare, nor can he, cut this Gordian knot.