Lev Navrozov
Friday, Jan. 31, 2003

A Westerner will perceive the phrase “Peace is war” as Orwell’s sardonic slogan in his "1984" — Orwell scoffed at the absurd propaganda or public mentality of the supertotalitarian state. But “Peace is war” is a dead serious official slogan of the owners of China.

The book “Unrestricted Warfare” is rooted in the millennia of Chinese absolutism and Chinese culture. In Christendom, war was declared. That was part of chivalry. A knight could not attack an opponent without challenging him. War was a contest of knights, a “feast of honor,” a noble game.

Hitler, who has poisoned 12 million civilians, was against the German development of chemical and bacteriological weapons as unworthy of a soldier. On the other hand, Japan, which has never been a Christian country, was above such prejudices of Christendom and tested chemical and bacteriological weapons on civilians.

It is still generally unknown east or west that Hitler formally declared war on Russia in 1941 through the German ambassador in Moscow. In contrast to the pre-1933 Germany and just like Japan, China has never been a Christian country, complete with chivalry, and the two Chinese colonels (very erudite and articulate) ridicule (p. 154) European chivalry. To them Hitler was an old-fashioned Western romantic and moralist, a kind of Don Quixote.

To them, there is only one rule of war: There are no rules of war, for peace or non-war is also war, and all means leading to victory should be evaluated only by their ability to do so.

Let us now suppose that two Iraqi colonels had published such a book. We would hear about it on CNN all ’round the clock. Just think of it! The two colonels not only take for granted the fact that their country has had nuclear weapons since 1964, to say nothing of post-nuclear (in particular, chemical and biological superweapons) it has been developing since 1986, but they also proclaim that all means of defeating the enemy should be judged only in terms of their ability to defeat the enemy, contrary to all those Geneva and other such conventions.

The U.S. Congress would have been talking the book incessantly, along with all TV hosts and guests. Shamefacedly, France, Germany and Russia would have recognized that they were nearsighted with respect to Saddam Hussein. Have you read “Unrestricted Warfare”? What ruthless militancy! What cynicism! What sweeping rejection of all tolerance, all humanity, all civilized laws and rules of war!

The rating of Tony Blair, that protean British socialist, instead of falling catastrophically, would have soared overnight to an all-time high.

Iraq would have been invaded (or nuked?) then and there, and should there have been an upsurge of Islamic terrorism, the two Iraqi colonels’ book would have been conjured up as the best proof that no losses are too great to defeat an enemy so monstrous.

But the two authors of “Unrestrained Warfare” were not Iraqi, but Chinese “senior colonels.” The book was published in Chinese in China in 1999. Who has heard of it in the West? In 2002 (three years later!) it was published in English in Panama City, Panama. The mainstream media? Not a word! The U.S. Congress? The U.S. government? Well, if the colonels had been Iraqi .... But China? How on earth can China be a threat or a danger?

I learned about “Unrestricted Warfare” from NewsMax. Not from CNN or the New York Times. The only TV program about China I have seen since 1999 was about China as a tourist attraction.

The fact is that geostrategically, Iraq is zero. It was defeated by conventional U.S. troops in the Gulf War of 1990/91 within 42 days, but it could be nuked to dust within 42 minutes.

Iraq was warned that in case it used its (pathetic) chemical and biological weapons (it had been buying from a U.S. company) it would be nuked. So, geostrategically, the Gulf War was an exercise, like an honest boxing match between a preschool-age child and a heavyweight boxing champion, the child having been warned not to use stones, slings and other wicked devices, or the champ will knock him on the head, dead.

Characteristically, it is the Gulf War that prompted the two Chinese colonels to write their book, obviously approved by the owners of China.

While Iraq is a geostrategical zero, China is, speaking mathematically, infinity, that is, an infinite geostrategic danger, which “Unrestricted Warfare” illustrates.

Very conveniently, way back under Clinton in his second term, the United States flip-flopped strategic zeros such as Yugoslavia and Iraq with a geostrategic infinity: China, and possibly Russia again. Therefore, “Unrestricted Warfare,” if published by two Iraqi colonels, would have entailed a public opinion explosion and a Western crusade against a geostrategic zero, while “Unrestricted Warfare” published by two Chinese colonels has been accompanied by four years of almost total public silence with respect to an infinitely dangerous empire.

Until recently, my NewsMax.com columns were accompanied by my proposal to publishers to send them by slow-mail the 130-page beginning of my book, “Out of Moscow and Into New York: A Life in the Geostrategically Lobotomized West in the Age of Terrorism and Post-Nuclear Superweapons.” Though the proposal was addressed to publishers, hundreds of readers sent me e-mails expressing their appreciation of my columns and requesting that I send them my book, or at least the beginning of it. I have decided to meet their wishes by posting on my Web site my book in weekly installments. Those interested, please let me know (navlev@cloud9.net) and you will be informed by e-mail as to the link to my Web site.

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