The below two headlines should give the 1% great pause.
ISIS: Western Journalist Embedded With Group Says He Came Into Contact With Americans
While I personally believe that the ISIS threat is severely over-stated at this time, the potential of lone wolf attacks spreading across Europe and into the USA cannot be over-stated. I embrace Ralph Peters' hard views (below the line) in the event the governments of the USA and Saudi Arabia continue to be corrupt and inept and allow this plague to spread while also rejecting the necessary remediation measures (instead of 1% – 99% we need to get to 20% – 80%).
Ralph Peters nailed it in his 1995 piece for Parameters, After the Revolution — the only path to wealth, women, and wine for the persistently unemployed is at the point of a gun. I have been forecasting revolutionary preconditions for over 40 years, and never seen it worse. The actual unemployment rate in the USA is 22.4% — not far from the 25% characteristic of Spain and other major countries, and must less than is the case in Somalia, Yemen, and other emerging hot spots.
Also by Ralph are his 1994 The New Warrior Class (also in Parameters), and When Devils Walk the Earth: The Mentality and Roots of Terrorism, and How to Respond (Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, 2001).
There are two revolutions brewing — one is non-violent (electoral reform and digital empowerment of the public) the other is violent. This post focuses on the second. The rest of this website focuses on the first.
See Also:
2014 Robert Steele Answers to Richard Olivier on 21st Leadership with Annotated Bibliography & Links
2013: The Evolving Craft of Intelligence 3.6 As Published
2011 Robert Steele: Reflections on Revolution, Information & Civil Affairs
2011 Thinking About Revolution in the USA and Elsewhere
2008 The Substance of Governance
2007 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0
Allen Roland: Honoring Chalmers Johnson, Prophet of Truth + Empire Meta-RECAP
Answers: Robert Steele to Ramin D on Education & Elites in Context of Revolution
Arabia Rising: Understanding Transformations & Revolutions in the Middle East
Assisi, Egypt, US Hypocrisy, Global Revolution
Berto Jongman: CounterPunch On Tap — WTF Nation, Armed Revolution USA, Coming Pandemics,
Berto Jongman: Fatal Capitalism — 10 Point Global Paradigm Revolution — Economic Crisis in 2015?
Berto Jongman: Linking Climate, Food Prices, & Revolution
Berto Jongman: The Coming Global Revolution
Bin Laden Show 67: Paradigm Shift — Bin Laden and the Spring of Arab Revolutions
Carthage under Siege + Revolution Tyranny RECAP
Chris Hedges: Time for Professional Revolutionaries
Chuck Spinney: Wanna Start a Revolution? Watch Fed Feed Wall Street While Looting Main Street…
Eagle: Food Costs Soar – Revolution in the Air
Eagle: Practical Guide to Collapse and Revolution
Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
Graphic: Revolution Model Simplified
Journal: Wayne Madson on “Conflict or Revolution”
Marcus Aurelius: Army of None — Pentagon Loses Best & Brightest
Mini-Me: Global Revolution – Rethinking Assumptions
Owl: Mexican Revolution Begins — Pilot for US Revolution?
Patrick Cockburn: Hazards of Revolution — and Counter-Revolution
Ralph Peters: Testimony to Congress on Pakistan As a Failing Empire, Focus on Baluchistan
Ralph Peters: The Birth of Modern War – How the 1860’s Changed War, and the World
Reference: Predicting Revolution – Operationalization of Preconditions (1976)
Review (Guest): Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Review: Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
REVOLUTION 2.0 CLOSED 17 May 2011
Revolution & Secession: The Game is ON!
Revolution USA? COUNT ON IT. Egyptian Notes +
Search: davis curve of revolution
Search: four preconditions for revolution
Search: graphic: preconditions of revolution in the usa today
Search: revolution theory preconditions
Search: violent comprehensive revolutions are of
Stephen E. Arnold: Predictive Analytics, Food Prices, Revolution
Stronger Signals: Revolution from the Punjab
Worth a Look: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 12 January 2015]
Worth a Look: Writing [On the Arab] Revolution – Voices from Tunis to Damascus
Yoda: Saudi Arabia on Brink of Revolution?
