Nkhondo Yosatha Ndiowopsa (Koma Yopindulitsa) Bizinesi

Wolemba Lawrence Wilkerson, february 11, 2020

kuchokera Statecraft Yabwino

"Kuwonongeka kwa dziko la Libyan kwadzetsa madera ambiri, kukuyenda kwa anthu ndi zida zathandizira mayiko ena kumpoto kwa Africa." Mawuwa adachokera ku Intelbrief yaposachedwa ya Soufan Group, yotchedwa "Kulimbana Kwambiri ndi Kufikira Mabuku a Mphamvu ku Libya" (24 Januware 2020). 

Kodi mukumvera, Barack Obama?

"Tili ndi tsankho m'tawuni ino [Washington, DC] kumenya nkhondo," Purezidenti Obama adandiuza ine ndi anthu ena angapo omwe adasonkhana ku White House's Roosevelt Chipinda pa Seputembara 10, 2015, pafupifupi zaka zisanu ndi ziwiri kukhala purezidenti. Panthawiyo, ndimaganiza kuti akuganiza kwambiri zolakwika zomwe adachita polowa nawo mdziko la Libya mchaka cha 2011, akuchita izi pofuna kukhazikitsa United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

Secretary of state of Obama, a John Kerry, anali atakhala pomwepo Purezidenti pomwe Obama amalankhula. Ndikukumbukira kuti nthawi imeneyi ndimakhala ndikulankhula ndi Kerry komanso ndikadandaula za zomwe adasankha, chifukwa Kerry anali atangolankhulidwa panthawiyo za kutenga gawo lalikulu ku US pomenya nkhondo inanso yosatha panthawiyo - mpaka pano - ndikugulitsa ku Syria. Komabe, a Obama, mwachionekere analibe chilichonse cha izi.

Cholinga chake ndikuti kulowererapo kwa Libya sikungobweretsa imfa yamtsogoleri wa Libya, Muammar Qaddafi - ndikuyambitsa nkhondo mwankhanza komanso kupitilizabe kumenya nkhondo yaudindo wa "amene akulamulira Libya," kuitana maulamuliro akunja kudera lonse la Mediterranean kupita Lowani pagululo, ndikuwonetsa malo othawirako othawirako otha kulowa mkati - idayikanso zida kuchokera kumodzi mwamphamvu kwambiri padziko lonse m'manja mwa magulu monga ISIS, al-Qa'ida, Lashkar e-Taibi, ndi ena . Kuphatikiza apo, zida zambiri zomwe kale zinali zaku Libya zinali zikugwiritsidwa ntchito ku Syria nthawi yomweyo.

Tisanapereke chiyembekezo chokomera a Obama ataphunzira kale phunziroli ndipo sanasankhe kulowera ku Syria munjira yofunika kwambiri, tiyenera kufunsa kuti: Chifukwa chiyani atsogoleri amapanga zisankho zoyipa ngati Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan komanso, mawa mwina, Iran?

Purezidenti Dwight Eisenhower adayankha funso ili, mu gawo lalikulu, mu 1961: "Tisalole konse kulemera kwa kuphatikizidwa [kwa mafakitale ankhondo] uku kuyika ufulu wathu kapena njira zademokalase. ... Nzika zokhazokha komanso zodziwitsa nzika zomwe zitha kukakamiza kuti makina achitetezo ndi zida zankhondo ziziteteza anthu pogwiritsa ntchito njira ndi zolinga zathu mwamtendere. "

Mwachidule, lero America siyopangidwa ngati nzika yochenjera komanso odziwa zambiri, ndipo Complex yomwe Eisenhower yolongosoledwa molondola ndiyowona, ndipo mwanjira zomwe ngakhale Eisenhower sakanalingalira, kuyika ufulu wathu ndi njira za demokalase. Complex imapanga "kukondera" komwe Purezidenti Obama amafotokoza.  Kuphatikiza apo, lero bungwe la US Congress lithandizira Complex - $ 738 biliyoni chaka chino kuphatikiza ndalama zomwe sizinachitikepo pafupifupi $ 72 biliyoni - mpaka momwe zolemba za a Complex zankhondo zakhala zopanda ntchito, zosatha, komanso, monga Eisenhower adanenanso, " amamveka m'mizinda iliyonse, nyumba iliyonse yaboma, maofesi onse aboma. ”

Pankhani ya "nzika yodziwitsa ndi kudziwa nzika," zotsatira osati kungoyambira nthawi yayitali chifukwa cha maphunziro oyenera komanso nthawi yochepa kwambiri yomwe imakhazikitsidwa ndi "Dongosolo Lachinayi" lochita bwino, kulephera kovuta kwambiri. komanso. 

The Complex chifukwa cha zolinga zake zabwino zambiri zili ndi atolankhani omwe amafunikira, kuchokera ku nyuzipepala ya dziko, The New York Times, kupita ku likulu lamasiku ano likulu la zamalonda, The Washington Post, ku pepala lolembera anthu azachuma, Wall Street Journal. Mapepala onsewa kwa nthawi yayitali sanakumanepo ndi lingaliro lankhondo lomwe sanakonde. Pokhapokha nkhondo zitakhala "zopanda malire" ena amapeza mawu awo - kenako ndi mochedwa.

Osatinso kupitilizidwa ndi kusindikiza utolankhani, makina oonera TV ambiri amakhala ndi mitu yolankhula, ena mwa iwo amalipiridwa ndi anthu a Complex kapena atakhala moyo wawo waluso mkati mwake, kapena onse awiri, kuti apenyere nkhondo zosiyanasiyana. Apanso, amangopeza mawu awo ovuta pamene nkhondo zidzatha, zikuwonekeratu kuti zikuwonongeka, ndikuwononga magazi ndi chuma chochuluka, ndipo migwirizano yabwino ili kumbali yakutsutsana nawo.

Marine General Smedley Butler, wolandila Medal of Honor kawiri, adavomereza kale kuti anali "wolakwa chifukwa chokomera dziko." Kufotokozera koyenera kwa nthawi ya Butler m'masiku oyambilira a zana la 20. Lero, komabe, katswiri aliyense wankhondo yemwe amayenera mchere wake monga nzika komanso - Eisenhower - angavomereze kuti nawonso ndi achifwamba pa Complex - membala wanyengo zandalama, kukhala wotsimikiza, koma amene yekhayo cholinga, kunja kokukulitsa phindu la olowa nawo, ndikuthandizira kufa kwa ena m'manja mwa boma. 

Ndingatani kuti ndifotokozere molondola amuna - ndipo tsopano azimayi - ovala nyenyezi zingapo popanda kupita pamaso pa anthu oimira Congress ndikumapempha ndalama zambiri za olipira msonkho? Ndipo ndalama zoyambirira za thumba loterera, lomwe limadziwika kuti funde la Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) ndipo likuyenera kugwirira ntchito m'malo opangira zankhondo, limapangitsa kuti asamagwire ndalama zambiri. Mamembala ambiri a Congress ayenera kumamatira mitu yawo manyazi chifukwa cha zomwe amalola kuchitika chaka chilichonse ndi thumba loterera.

Ndipo mawu a Secretary of Defense Mark Esper ku Center for Strategic and International Study sabata ino, omwe awoneka bwino kuti afotokozere "kulingalira kwatsopano" ku Pentagon pankhani yokhudza bajeti, sikuti kungowonetsa kusintha kwina mu bajeti ya asirikali, kungoyang'ana kumene - yomwe imalonjeza kuti isachepetse kuwononga ndalama koma kuziwonjezera. Koma zili choncho, Esper akuwonetsa komwe kutsutsika kuli komwe iye akuwunikira Congress kuti ikuwonjezera zofunidwa za bajeti zochokera ku Pentagon: "Ndakhala ndikuuza Pentagon tsopano kwa zaka ziwiri ndi theka kuti ndalama zathu sizikhala bwino - zili komwe zilipo - chifukwa chake tiyenera kukhala oyang'anira abwinoko a msonkho. ... Ndipo, mukudziwa, Congress ndi kumbuyo kwathu. Koma pamakhala nthawi yoti ikakomoke kumbuyo kwawo, ndipo muyenera kuchita izi. ”

"T [t] hat in the time in the land backyard" ndiye chongokubisa chokha chomwe mamembala a Congress nthawi zambiri amaphatikiza Pentagon akupempha bajeti kuti apatse nkhumba zigawo zawo (palibe amene akuchita bwino kuposa nyumba ya Seneti Mtsogoleri Wamkurukulu Mitch McConnell, yemwe kwa zaka zambiri mu Nyumba ya Senate wapereka ndalama zambiri za olipira misonkho - kuphatikiza ku Defense - ku nyumba yake ku Kentucky kuti awonetsetse kuti ali ndi mphamvu kumeneko kwa nthawi yayitali. Ndipo sakulandiranso ndalama gawo lazomenyera nkhondo likulu lake. McConnell akhoza kukhala wosiyana, komabe, kuchokera kwa mamembala ena a Congress momwe amabwerera ku Kentucky ndikudzitama ndi nkhumba zambiri zomwe amabweretsa chaka chilichonse ku boma lake kuti akwaniritse zovuta zake mavoti oyipitsa). 

Koma Esper anapitilizabe kunena kuti: “Tafika nthawi ino. Tili ndi njira yatsopano. … Tili ndi chithandizo chambiri kuchokera ku Congress. ... Tikuyenera kuletsa kusiyana pakati pa zomwe zinali nyengo ya Cold War-era ndi kukana, inshuwaransi yapazaka khumi zapitazi, ndikupanga mpikisano wamphamvu kwambiri ndi Russia ndi China - China makamaka. "

Ngati nkhondo yakale ya Cold itabweretsa nthawi zina zolemba bajeti, titha kuyembekeza kuti nkhondo yatsopano yozizira ndi China itulutsanso ziwonetserozo mwakukula. Ndipo ndi ndani amene anaganiza kuti tikufunikira nkhondo yozizira yatsopano mulimonse?

Osayang'ananso kwina kuposa kwa Complex (kumene Esper amachokera, osati mwamwayi, ngati mmodzi mwa otchuka kwambiri a Raytheon, membala wanyansi wa Complex). Chimodzi mwazinthu zovuta kwambiri za Complex's sine qua nons ndi zomwe idaphunzira kuyambira pafupifupi theka la nkhondo yozizira ndi Soviet Union: palibe chilichonse padziko lapansi chomwe chimalipira bwino komanso mosasinthika kuposa kulimbana kwakutali ndi mphamvu yayikulu. Chifukwa chake, palibe wochirikiza wolimbikitsa nkhondo yankhondo yatsopano ndi China - ndikuponyera Russia kusakanikiranso kwa madola owonjezera - kuposa Complex. 

Komabe, kumapeto kwa tsiku, lingaliro loti US iyenera kugwiritsa ntchito ndalama zambiri pachaka chankhondo kuposa mitundu isanu ndi itatu yadziko lapansi pamodzi, omwe ambiri ali oyanjana nawo aku US, ayenera kuwonetsa nzika yosazindikira komanso yosazindikira kuti china chake chalakwika kwambiri. Pangani nkhondo yatsopano yozizira; China chake chikadali cholakwika kwambiri.

Koma zikuwoneka kuti mphamvu ya Complex ndiyabwino kwambiri. Nkhondo ndi nkhondo zambiri ndi tsogolo la America. Monga Eisenhower adanenanso, "kuphatikiza kwakukulu uku" kukuwopseza ufulu wathu ndi njira za demokalase.

Kuti timvetse bwino izi, tiyenera kungoyesa chabe zopanda pake zaka zingapo zapitazi kuti tithane ndi mphamvu zopanga nkhondo kuchokera ku nthambi yayikulu, nthambi yomwe ikakhala ndi mphamvu yopanga nkhondo, monga momwe James Madison adatichenjezera, ndiyofunika kwambiri mwina kubweretsa wankhanza.

Madison, "cholembera" weniweni pakulemba Constitution ya US, adatsimikiza kuti iziyika m'manja mwa Congress. Ngakhale zili choncho, kuyambira Purezidenti Truman kupita ku Trump, pafupifupi purezidenti aliyense waku America walanda njira iliyonse.

Kuyesa kwaposachedwa komwe mamembala ena a Congress kuti agwiritse ntchito mphamvuyi pokhapokha pochotsa America ku nkhondo yankhanza ku Yemen, agwera ku mphamvu yodabwitsa ya Complex. Zilibe kanthu kuti mabomba ndi zoponya za Complex zikugwera mabasi amasukulu, zipatala, mabungwe azachisangalalo, ndi zochitika zina zosavulaza m'dziko lomenyerali. Madola amathira kumabokosi a Complex. Izi ndizofunika. Izi ndiye zonse zofunika.

Idzafika tsiku lowerengera; nthawi zonse pamakhala maubale amitundu. Mayina a ma hegemons amakono amdziko lapansi adalembedwa pamabuku a mbiri yakale. Kucokela ku Roma kupita ku Britain, amalembedwa kumeneko. Palibe paliponse pomwe, pomwe timalembapo kuti aliyense wa iwo akadali nafe lero. Onse apita phulusa la mbiriyakale.

Momwemo nafenso tsiku lina posachedwa, tidzatsogozedwa ndi Complex ndi nkhondo zake zosatha.

Lawrence Wilkerson ndi mkulu wankhondo wa United States yemwe adapuma pantchito komanso wamkulu wakale wa ogwira nawo ntchito ku Secretary of State a Colin Powell waku United States.