John Michael Greer has a review of an important Pentagon document that should chill your spine. It is called the Joint Operations Environment projection for the year 2035 or JOE-35. Greer points out that the environment it envisions is already here. He politely does not mention that a lot of that environment was created by the US national security state in the period after the Cold War or by DARPA in service to the Cold War and post-Cold War US military.
Greer then points out these areas of strategic conflict that the report fails to mention.
- A crisis of legitimacy in the United States
- The marginalization of the United States in the global arena
- The rise of “monkeywrenching” warfare
- The genesis of warband culture in failed states
- The end of the Holocene environmental optimum
This is thought-provoking stuff, but neither the Pentagon study nor John Michael Greer consider the projective nature of their forecasts. They see other nations doing unto the US and US interests what the US has at one time or another done to other states or people since the end of the Cold War.
A careful reading of JOE-35 and John Michael Greer’s analysis should become the impetus for a new global peace initiative not seen since the movement during the Reagan administration that reacted to the analysis of nuclear winter.
Will we?
It is indeed worth your time to read both of these carefully. And much meatier than the latest Trump outrage.
