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April 4, 2023

“If the United States does not compete effectively against adversaries, it could ‘lose without fighting.’” — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley; in the Executive Summary of Joint Concept for Competing.

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In mid-March, the Joint Chiefs issued a 91-page press release titled JOINT CONCEPT FOR COMPETING (JCFC) which announces the Pentagon’s shift in the way it views warfare and its intent to proactively counter the CCP’s long-range strategy to conquer the United States. The CCP’s strategy is traced to a treatise, published in 1999, by two CCP coronels, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, under the title Unrestricted Warfare.  The goal, in unrestricted warfare, is to weaken the United States into submission, through an array of corrosive tactics, over a long period of time.  Essentially, to “win without fighting.”  “The first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules, with nothing forbidden.”  The Joint Chiefs summarize:

“Adversaries are employing cohesive combinations of military and civil power to expand the competitive space. Adversaries aim to achieve their strategic objectives through a myriad of ways and means, including statecraft and economic power as well as subversion, coercion, disinformation, and deception. They are investing in key technologies designed to offset U.S. strategic and conventional military capabilities (e.g., nuclear weapons, anti-access and area denial systems, offensive cyberspace, artificial intelligence, hypersonic delivery systems, electromagnetic spectrum)

Simply put, our adversaries intend to “win without fighting,”

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But they are also building military forces that strengthen their ability to “fight and win” an armed conflict against the United States.”

“This really is a big deal.”  Casey Fleming, CEO of the firm Blackops Partners, stresses the significance of the Pentagon’s press release in an interview with NTD’s Tiffany Meier.  “Every American needs to understand what this really means.  This press release is something very serious for every American to get knowledge on and pass it among their families, peers, colleagues, and so on.”  He explains that the target of the CCP’s silent war on America is every American citizen — every man, woman, and child…literally.

Fleming regrets the Joint Chiefs’ watered-down terminology that they use in this document — terms like “competition” and “adversary” — when the Chinese are using “war” and “enemy,” respectively.”  In his conversation with Tiffany Meier, Fleming is explicit: “The military still likes to call it ‘competition.'”  He shakes his head in disapproval.  “Let me tell you, it is absolutely war! When the Communist party refers to it as ‘war’ then, by golly, it’s war!  Make no mistake.  And when the Chinese Communists say that we are their ‘number one enemy’ …then, by God, we are their enemy!  There’s no mistake on that.”

While the Joint Chiefs are more diplomatic in their language, they are declaring the same thing: WAR!

“The Joint Force will conduct irregular warfare operations and activities proactively to subvert, create dilemmas for adversaries, and impose costs on an adversary’s strategic interests, including its economy, civil society, institutional processes, and critical infrastructure. Irregular warfare favors indirect and asymmetric approaches, though it may employ the full range of military and other capabilities, in order to erode an adversary’s power, influence, and political will.”

Though, in the context of the real world, it would not be unreasonable for the average American to doubt the sincerity of the Joint Chiefs.  It’s not like the CCP’s covert war on Americanism is a recent revelation for them.  In March of 2015, for example, The United States Army Special Operations Command submitted a document called the White Paper to U.S. leaders and policymakers, which conveys much of the same information found in JCFC.