Sunday, April 19, 2020

SER 12 (D) OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR - Coronavirus shows need to brace for new warfare (R)

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SER 12  (D)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR

SER 12  (C)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR

SER 12  (B)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)  VIRUS WAR
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/ser-12-b-of-x-serials-infectious.html

SER 12  (A)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)  VIRUS WAR

SER  11  OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
SER 09  OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)

SER 08   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-impossible-ethics-of-pandemic-triage.html

 SER 07   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
 SER 06 ( B )   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)

 SER 06 (A )   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)

SER 05   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)

SER 04 / (C)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/ser-04-c-of-x-serials-infectious_27.html


SER 04 / (B)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/2019-2020-cornavirus-pandemic_26.html

 SER 04 / (A)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/2019-2020-cornavirus-pandemic.html

 SER 03 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/novel-coronavirus-covid-19.html

 SER 02 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/history-in-crisis-lessons-for-covid-19.html

 SER 01 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/infectious-diseases-infectious-diseases.html  




Coronavirus shows need to brace for new warfare

                                                                  By
                 Abhijit Bhattacharya
                  
                               Commentator and author
                         


The sign is ominous. The virus could transform the entire spectrum of future conventional warfare, posing a dire threat to the very existence of the huge and powerful US Navy deployment from coast to coast of the Pacific Ocean which till now has been the virtual water-body monopoly of Washington for 75 years. The Chinese Navy is still no match for the Americans and that makes the Chinese fall back on their own ‘art of war’.



Grounded: The Pacific Fleet, pride of US Navy, could be in disarray due to the virus outbreak.

ON April 2, about 1,000 sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), roughly 17 per cent of its 5,750-strong crew, were reportedly quarantined at a US naval base in Guam as the command thereof went for damage control after the coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship.
Before the evacuation process, however, the tenure of Brett Crozier, Captain of the mammoth carrier, got aborted prematurely as leakage of his pointed and poignant lines, urging the US military high command for decisive action to control the virus outbreak, did him in:
“We are not at war. Sailors don’t need to die. If we don’t act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted assets — our sailors.”

Understandably, whereas the ship crew’s home port San Diego-based family members were alarmed, Pentagon too was on the back foot. A visibly unnerved acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly stated that he disagreed with the Captain’s perception that all but 10 per cent of the ship’s crew would be removed from the vessel, if needed. “The ship has weapons on it. It has munitions on it. It requires a certain number of people to maintain safety and security of the ship.”

The China-origin coronavirus has created a huge crack in the US system. Did the US Navy ever before look so helpless? Not sure, at least not since the end of World War II in 1945.
The sign is ominous. The virus could transform the entire spectrum of future conventional warfare, posing a dire threat to the very existence of the huge and powerful US naval deployment from coast to coast of the Pacific Ocean which till now has been the virtual monopoly water-body of Washington for 75 years.

Today, the US operates the 3rd Fleet in the Eastern Pacific and the 7th Fleet in Western Pacific, East Asia and Indian Ocean. Compared to this, the Chinese Navy still is no match for the Americans. And that precisely makes the Chinese fall back on their own ‘art of war’, the preferable ingenious device to try and subdue the powerful and mighty, without fight, if possible, in the shortest possible time, with minimum loss to one’s own forces. Fighting, without fighting; minimum fire and maximum psychic power. Try, cripple the enemy hardware before the battle. Sabotage software to make things incommunicado across and deep inside the enemy line. From control room to command structure, deploy to deceive, demoralise and shatter the will of the enemy to fight. Compelling tame surrender, preferably before and not after the fight, thereby inflicting defeat, supplemented by the loss of honour and confusion and creating mutual rancour and blame game in the enemy camp.

The Chinese have been upping their ante to 
implement action against the US since birth. 
Beijing had identified the US in its original 
Constitution of 1954 itself, notwithstanding the 
replacement thereof several times: in 1982, 
1992, and the latest and last being in 2017. The 
Americans surely are aware of it; yet, they need
 to re-look at it to understand the ingrained
 anti-American psyche of Beijing rulers.

Thus, in the preamble of the Chinese Constitution itself was inscribed: “In the last few years, our people have successfully carried out...resistance to American aggression.” What does this imply? Does it mean that the creation and origin of the Chinese Constitution preamble owes more to the US, and less to the Han intelligence and intention? A supreme legal document to guide the overall administration and welfare of the people of the state to impart and implement the rule of law in China!
In this background, why didn’t the US initiate a carefully crafted policy to counter the present world crisis created by the Chinese? Will it be a fantasy to suggest that the Chinese usually cannot tolerate any foreigner and that their whole and sole aim is to imitate the western imperialism of the past, to subjugate all foreigners? Though, in different and refined ways of so called globalisation, the futility of which today appears so real?

Let’s, therefore, be clear that the possibility of chemical and biological warfare is more real than it was ever before. And the future war may not necessarily be confined to the battlefield as was the case more than 100 years ago in Europe: when the first major gas attack took place in Poland on January 31, 1915, initiated by the German 9th Army of General Max Hoffman, followed by chlorine gas, which killed thousands of French Algerian troops in the second battle of Ypres in May 1915.
As we see today, an avalanche of credible information is pouring in pertaining to more coronavirus attacks on the US Navy sailors and their commanders. So much so that the pride of the US Navy— the Pacific Fleet — could be in disarray. From the coast of California to Pearl Harbour, Guam and Okinawa, are spread the formidable carrier battlegroups of the US, their best and most effective “forward deployment”. In one stroke, the coronavirus has affected like chemical and biological warfare which can cripple the fleet even before leaving the quay and the bay. Did the eleven-aircraft carrier US fleet ever look so helpless with virus-afflicted sailors, the sacked Captain of a formidable carrier Roosevelt, forced resignation of the Navy Secretary and now the red flag shown by a four-star General and former Admirals of the US?
Will the US be able to withstand or tackle China’s art of war? To deal with an enemy which is increasingly resorting to psychological and indirect war? With minimum body contact? Trying to minimise one’s own casualties? In fact, today, the most devastating of all for the US and the world appears to be mental trauma leading to demoralisation, loss of confidence and the will to fight owing to an attack from the invisible enemy called coronavirus. The world, including India, needs to brace for a new warfare, however unethical that may be.




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