Secret Warfare: From Gladio to 9/11

…Do I know of a secret, hidden group above or within the U.S. government? No, I don’t. If your speculation is correct and there is such a structure, then, I think, there would have been cooperation from within the government with it. I’m a historian and my points of reference are the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, etc. and their actions. Of course, historians are well aware that power can also be organized in different and more hidden forms, but I still think closely studying not only the words, but above all the actions of a government, produces the best insights. When you talk about driving the U.S. government into a certain direction, I would say, yes, of course. There are hundreds of lobbying groups, and, the way I see it, strategic energy policy seems to play a big role. There’s much debate on the ”peak oil” thesis. It’s being said that maybe half of the oil we have on Earth is already used up, so we are running out of oil, while for the future we expect global population to rise to 10 billion and China and India are coming in big, consuming energy. It’s quite imaginable that there’s a power group, maybe outside, maybe inside the White House and the Pentagon, saying: We must check the power of China, India, the European Union, and make sure we control the oil reserves. As long as we have the military force to control energy resources, we better use it under whatever pretext. Brzezinski, for instance, urged in his 1997 book Chessboard that the U.S. must try to control what he called ”Eurasia” the landmass of Europe and Asia. Eurasia has historically held the key to global power, so no global power [can be maintained] without control of Eurasia, Brzezinski said, and he’s probably right. Of course you can’t talk geostrategy to the larger U.S. population, or the European Union (EU) population for that matter, and therefore the U.S. could not start new wars, unless, as Brzezinski put it, ”a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat” materialized which could scare the U.S. Congress and population into new wars.
Again, as I said, it is important that we study covert operations. I did my part on SB/Gladio, which is history now. But studying Gladio can instruct our thinking. The forms of secret warfare change with time, but the strategy, the methodology remains very much the same.

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