GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: US Foreign policy "becoming a black hole"

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: World Tribune

24February2011 4:00pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: In a region noted for miracles — Israel’s prosperous if beleaguered survival, despite attempts to mobilize 360-million Arab enemies, is a recent example — prayer could be a way to make U.S. policy. Although she now contributes only by inheritance, former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice voiced that possibility, woefully, recently: “…We have only one choice: to trust that in the long arc of history those shared beliefs will matter more than the immediate disruptions that lie ahead and that, ultimately, our interests and ideals will be well served.“

To quote John Maynard Milord Keynes, in the long run we will all be dead.

Reality is the Obama Administration cannot continue to abdicate America’s responsibility, leaving a worldwide vacuum to be filled by every would-be amateur Metternich. Obviously, policy is made with many unanswered questions. But leadership requires sorting possibilities, and decision-making, usually accepting the best of poor alternatives.

In all the uncertainties facing Egypt’s future, and indeed, the whole Arab world, by encroaching poverty poised against rising expectations, none is so mysterious as current U.S. policy. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: US National Military Strategy -- 2011: Continued Focus on Terrorism & Enhanced Focus on China

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: South Asia Analysis Group

11February2011 7:43pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, released on February 8, 2011, the USA's new National Military Strategy in replacement of the earlier strategy released in 2004 when Mr.George Bush was the President. The text of the new strategy is available in PDF Format below.

The fight against terrorism and extremism emanating from the Af-Pak and other regions continues to receive priority in the new strategy too, but the new strategy envisages an enhanced focus    on  China. It says "The Nation’s strategic priorities and interests will increasingly emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. The region's share of global wealth is growing, enabling increased military capabilities. This is causing the region’s security architecture to change rapidly, creating new challenges and opportunities for our national security and leadership. Though still underpinned by the U.S. bilateral alliance system, Asia's security architecture is becoming a more complex mix of formal and informal multilateral relationships and expanded bilateral security ties among states." (read full report)

 

 

 

 

"GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE" is an intelligence briefing presented by Griffith Colson Intelligence Service, and provided to the public for informative purposes only. All subject matter is credited to it's source of origin, and is not intended to represent original content authored by GCIS, it's advertisers or affiliates. All opinions presented are those of the author, and not necessarily those of GCIS or it's partners.