Did you ever read the pre-September 11 book Unrestricted Warfare? I thought the translation was a bit garbled in places and a lot of the information probably not useful for anyone who is already deeply exploring asymmetric war and total war concepts (both from the insurgent and counterinsurgent points of view). What I did find interesting was the explicit —but not that elaborated— claim about using drugs and drug addictions to demoralize a people. One can see how this extrapolates to also capturing the academic/medical institutions to change the therapeutic profiles of an enemy so that it focuses on harmful and worsening treatments and restricts helpful and sustainable ones. "Legal" and "illegal" drugs are just bureaucratic distinctions made to separate who profits from which form of manipulating the health and desires of a population: adderall is still methamphetamine, right?
What was elaborated was using the greed of corrupt people to influence the culture, legal systems, and political bureaucracy of the enemy, with a special emphasis on George Soros that appears throughout the book. They explicitly cite his speculative activities in Indonesia as an example of financial terrorism. To update a different theme in the book: corruption and greed also play a significant part in using advertising monopolies and the decline in subscriber revenues to manipulate information media towards the positive messaging one wants and suppressing other messages.
Thank you for the references you pass on.
Obviously, the techniques described don't have to be limited to just China. The United States has also been under the influence of other powerful, financially motivated entities and nation-states and transnationals with the resources, influence, and tenacity willing to take advantage of its sleeping, day-dreaming people.
Here's another reference (that I haven't finished reading yet):
"The CCP is at War with America - The Chinese Communist Party’s COVID-19 Biological Warfare Attack and What’s Next"
https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/book-release-press-conference-the-ccp-is-at-war-with-america/
Did you ever read the pre-September 11 book Unrestricted Warfare? I thought the translation was a bit garbled in places and a lot of the information probably not useful for anyone who is already deeply exploring asymmetric war and total war concepts (both from the insurgent and counterinsurgent points of view). What I did find interesting was the explicit —but not that elaborated— claim about using drugs and drug addictions to demoralize a people. One can see how this extrapolates to also capturing the academic/medical institutions to change the therapeutic profiles of an enemy so that it focuses on harmful and worsening treatments and restricts helpful and sustainable ones. "Legal" and "illegal" drugs are just bureaucratic distinctions made to separate who profits from which form of manipulating the health and desires of a population: adderall is still methamphetamine, right?
What was elaborated was using the greed of corrupt people to influence the culture, legal systems, and political bureaucracy of the enemy, with a special emphasis on George Soros that appears throughout the book. They explicitly cite his speculative activities in Indonesia as an example of financial terrorism. To update a different theme in the book: corruption and greed also play a significant part in using advertising monopolies and the decline in subscriber revenues to manipulate information media towards the positive messaging one wants and suppressing other messages.
Thank you for the references you pass on.
Obviously, the techniques described don't have to be limited to just China. The United States has also been under the influence of other powerful, financially motivated entities and nation-states and transnationals with the resources, influence, and tenacity willing to take advantage of its sleeping, day-dreaming people.
No, I have not. I will have to put that one on my list too. I enjoyed reading your response. Thanks for your insight.