Reply To Seymour Hersh's
'The Coming Wars'
By John McCarthy
vpocv@hotmail.com
1-24-5The
New Yorker Magazine
Greetings,
Kudos to Mr. Hersh for writing this article:
"THE COMING WARS"
And thanks
to the New Yorker for having the courage to publish it!
There is one item barely addressed by Mr. Hersh. It is
almost totally overlooked by the talking heads of the White House, the DOD, DIA, CIA and State Department and those broadcasting
on CNN from Iraq. You will NEVER see the NSC nor the NSA broach the following subject which is the essence of the dilemma
we face in the Middle East. You will never hear the Generals from Iraq discussing the fact that the guerrilla warfare there
is alive and well, only that the acts of "insurgents" (sounds like folks from out of town, eh?) who take their toll on whomever
is in the way. NOT ONE spokesman from State or the Pentagon or DOD will acknowledge that we are very much involved in a classic
Guerrilla War.
The subject is Terror. Not terrorism, banditry, insurrectionist activity, but plain old fashioned unadulterated
Terror.
Mao Tse Tung's teachings on and about Guerrilla Warfare, sometimes used in the hushed tones of "Unconventional
Warfare", or UW, are in the lesson plans used by the Special Warfare School at Ft. Bragg, NC, and elsewhere.
The First
Phase of Guerrilla Warfare is Terror.
It is used to convince the population that the government in power cannot and will
not protect the population from terrorist type actions: Bombings, Assassination, Kidnapping, rape pillage and burn, severing
lines of communication, destroying the infrastructure of oil and gas services, blowing up bridges, rail yards, churches and
mosques. Shooting policemen and blowing up their district stations, assassinating judges, lawyers, school teachers, media
representatives, clergy, and indiscriminant targeting of any and all military personnel from all countries involved in the
aggressive war against their nation with the use of IED, indiscriminent exploding device.
There is nothing 'indiscriminent"
about a command detonated explosive. It is designed to detonate for maximum effect at the appropriate time. An 'indiscriminent'
device might very well be detonated by the use of a "time pencil" which allows those who place the explosive to be long gone
by the time of detonation; another CIA taught tactic.
That's a relatively new term for "field expedient demolitions"
which are those weapons manufactured and employed by guerrilla forces in Phase One of UW. All these techniques were taught
to virtually thousands of mid east citizens in virtually every country, except Israel. These teachings, obviously, have not
been forgotten.
During the Sixties and Seventies Special Forces personnel, at the direction of the CIA, traveled from
Norway to Pakistan, including most countries in between, and taught the disciplines of UW to the military forces of those
nations. These forces were based in Bad Toelz, Germany.
When one officer returning from Lebanon in 1962 wrote to his
father, then the Army Chief of Staff at the Pentagon, the good General took his sons' letter, which referenced all the countries
visited by fellow Special Forces A-Teams, and gave copies to all members at the next meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The only comment from General Goodpaster was; "I didn't know we had American Forces in all these countries!"
Two days
later, SOTFE, Special Operations Task Force Europe, CIA Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, sent a letter to the Commanding
Officer of the 10th Special Forces Group directing him to order Billy Goodpaster NOT to write to has father of any other Special
Forces missions in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Unfortunately, this same blatant use of Special Forces
by CIA had continued during the war in Vietnam and other countries around the world, without the knowledge or approval of
the Pentagon. They were simply not in the loop, an unnecessary burden on the goals of CIA, with and without the knowledge
of the Presidents along the way. Some call this Treason in Wartime. Then we also have instances of Rogue CIA activity in blatant
violation of Presidential Directives issued during National Security Council meetings that were never to see the light of
day.
Those students who were taught UW tactics and the theory of Mao Tse Tung in all the Middle East countries, save
Israel, now have the mind set for taking action as Guerrilla Warfare warriors. They learned their lessons well. Is there the
distinct possibility that these efforts of decades ago was designed to have a significant cadre of UW oriented forces who
would use these tactics to justify the counter-insurgency operations we see today in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around
the world? Perhaps we are giving too much credit to pre-planning that is far beyond the planning of those responsible for
directing these efforts of UW orientation of years gone by. If so, then what was the actual purpose for these activites?
Phase
One is alive and well in Iraq. Phase One was used by 20,000 Ukrainian Partisans to halt the entire German Army on the Eastern
Front from advancing on Moscow. How many assets exist in Iraq to do the same thing?
It is safe to say that at least
10 million are willing and able. There are 25 million more Muslims in neighboring countries to assist their brother Muslims
as demanded by the Koran.
It should also be noted that Phase One of Guerrilla Warfare, TERROR, continues throughout
the other Phases until the time comes for the tanks to roll through the palace gates as they did in Saigon in April, 1975.
There
is absolutely nothing that can be done militarily to stop Phase One of Guerrilla Warfare. The only exception to this rule,
and it is not military in essence, is to incarcerate the entire population, the guerrilla's life source. This was successful
one time, in Indonesia, when all Chinese, the support of the movement, were interred. That is the only instance where a Guerrilla
War was not successful, in all of history.
And it will be many, many years of Phase One activities eventually resulting
in our withdrawal as happened in Vietnam.
We taught these tactics to Osama bin Laden, Castro, Noriega, Pinochet, Diem,
Marcos and Magsaysay before him, and countless others around the world. We sure know how to pick them, don't we?
My
thanks to Seymour Hersh for including me in his book "The Price of Power" and to then Prince, now King Norodom Sihanouk, for
including me in his book "My War With The CIA", and thanks to Mr. Charles Morgan, Jr. the author of "One Man-One Voice" whose
Chapter 12 of his book is included in this site. And last but not least, thanks to Mike Ruppert for acknowledging me in his
latest, "Crossing The Rubicon".
Regards,
John McCarthy
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Read the article by SEYMOUR M. HERSH:
THE COMING WARS
