Thomas Barrett - The Pentagon's new map for war and peace

A new way of thinking on war for me. Not really a surprising idea, the problem is I didn't hear about it, yet. Wars in the past were started to get territories, usually the main powers were accepting the changes on the world maps, and if some citizens didn't agree, then they were executed... Well we are trying to establish a more "democratic" world in the last century, which means, that the citizens who disagree with the new situation shouldn't be butchered without consequences. But on the other hand we want as few as possible resistance on the conquered territories.
I think the sentence, which describes the presentation the best is:
"Don't plan for the war, until you plan for peace."
The presentator enforces the creation of a new force in the US army, which would specialize on "peacekeeping", it should be an open platform, which means that it should after a while be based on international cooperation rather then a US specialized force. The goal of the force should be - gaining trust, help at the rebuilding phase and give the possibility for a clean start. Anyway, the idea, how I understood it, sounds good, has of course it's possibilities in misusing, but generally looks fine for a positive non-zero outcome. (I will try to not forget and write on the non-zero outcomes another blog entry)

MANDATORY WATCHING!!!

The woman in the movie below talks about the steps getting to a dictatorship like Hitlers Germany and Stalins Soviet Union. She also compares the happenings to what happens now in the USA. I do not have the information verified showed in this clip. None of it. Anyway it is interesting to hear.



A Czech article I found this video in: Senátní návrh zákona č. 1955 kriminalizující názory, blogy, knihy a svobodu projevu vůbec po celé Americe
And look for articles/blogs about: "The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act". This is my best lead for now. Looks like a quite radical law...
I don't know for sure where to look for government stuff in the USA, but I think this is the right spot to read what it is all about: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c1108XuTgZ::