Summary: We have not begun a new era of low oil prices, fruits of new tech and a beneficent Fate. Low oil prices are the wreckage of an ongoing war — a financial war waged by the Saudi Princes for control of the world oil markets. We can predict who will win but only guess …
The first financial world war has begun, over oil. Bet on the Saudi Princes to win. Read More »
PLA Major General Qiao Liang shows us how China’s leaders see the world. It’s not as we do.
Summary: This series about China’s perspective on geopolitics and strategy begins with an excerpt from one of the most important and most underestimated textbooks about modern warfare, published in 1999. The following posts have excerpts from a recent speech by one of the authors, now a Major General in the People’s Liberation Army. These give …
China introduces us to the future of warfare (asymmetric) Read More »
Summary:Â The world changes as new great powers arise. The rules of international law and commerce will evolve to meet their standards of what’s right and proper. That new world order might have no place for the financial privateers, like hedge fund manager George Soros, who loot the world under the protection of the USA …
A new world comes, probably one with no place for our “lords of finance” Read More »
Summary: Fourth generation warfare takes place in a virtual space of the mind as earlier generations of war were waged in physical space. The battle for the moral high ground occurs in the media. Another battlefield are the markets, with flows of money replacing blitzkriegs by panzers. Here are excepts from two works about financial warfare, one …
Two essential texts in the theory and practice of financial warfare Read More »
