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A Measured Response: The United Global Security Partnership

by Peter Heinig

141 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0765; ISBN 1-55395-053-4; US$16.50, C$23.95, EUR15.60, £10.80

WE ARE AT WAR! Make no mistake about it. It is not a declared war, but it is a war nonetheless. It is a war unlike any we have ever fought. The enemy is elusive, hard to identify. They strike and run and they rely on terror. They target innocents to inflict the maximum psychological damage. They are sponsored by "rogue" nations or hide in nations unwilling or unable to control them.

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About the Book

WE ARE AT WAR! Make no mistake about it. It is not a declared war, but it is a war nonetheless. It is a war unlike any we have ever fought. The enemy is elusive, hard to identify. They strike and run and they rely on terror. They target innocents to inflict the maximum psychological damage. They are sponsored by "rogue" nations or hide in nations unwilling or unable to control them.
The peace and security of the world has too often been shattered by "rogue" nations. That is no different today. The challenges abound.
What to do? The United States, alone, cannot do the job of being the world's policeman. But, the United Global security Partnership can! A MEASURED RESPONSE tells how the civilized world can deal with the "rogues". The United Global Security Partnership, unlike any organization in the world today, will deal with the troublemakers in a fashion that will leave no doubt in their minds as to the error of their ways and, thereby discourage all other ambitious tyrants.

About the Author

Peter Heinig is a 1966 graduate of San Diego State University with a minor in Political Science. He is a retired residential real estate developer.
With a life long interest in government and world affairs, upon retirement, Mr. Heinig decided to pursue graduate degrees in Political Science. Accordingly, he has enrolled as a Master's Degree candidate in Political Science, with a specialization in international relations, at San Diego State University. He intends to advance to the Doctorate Degree.
Along with his wife Patricia, Mr. Heinig owns and lives upon their small ranch in the mountains of San Diego County.
Besides his interest in world affairs, Mr. Heinig's recreational interests including fishing, spearfishing, boating, hiking, travel and cooking. As a former lifeguard for the City of San Diego, Mr. Heinig is active in the United States Lifesaving Association and the World Lifesaving Federation ocean rescue competitions.

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From early on man recognized the need, and in some cases, the uncontrolled excessive need, for power, possession and control. At the basic level, tribes were formed with a chieftain and possibly a council to make and enforce the rules of their society and maintain order. Some societies are still run by this system. Later, city states and finally nations, fulfilled the same role on a larger scale.
While most members of society are socialized (civilized) and peaceful, there always have been and always will be "rogues" who will exploit weaknesses where they find them to satisfy their unreasonable needs (greed).
Were the last statement not true, there would be no need for locks, police forces or military. Because these individuals or small groups have always and will always exist, creating conflict, the idea of ultimate world peace is a "pipe dream" unless a system is put into place to enforce peace.
The quest for world peace is a marvelous political and religious statement, but it never has happened nor will it happen unless mankind faces the fact that we will not live in peace voluntarily. It would appear that it must be enforced by an organized body with the power to do so. Nations and individuals recoil at that thought. Yet, nobody would dream of a city without a police force. The world should recognize that it is no different.
This work will be discussing at great length the premise that all conflicts start with an individual or small group. If recognized early on, that individual or group could be managed or dealt with before the problem gets out of control. The so-called "Muslim Extremist" and the leaders such as Iraq's Saddam Hussein are still of a (problem) size that could be controlled. It must be emphasized that there is no correlation between "Muslim Extremist" and the basic principles of Islam. The civilized world had better not let the problem grow larger because there are millions of people that, under the guise of Islam, will be influenced by these extremist and create an armed conflict of major world destabilizing proportions...
The catastrophic results of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States was a wake up call. Suddenly, the entire world realized that if it could happen in the United States with such a horrific outcome, it could happen anywhere. Many of the nations of the world have suffered terrorist attacks. All understand that given the fanatical nature of terrorist attacks, they are very difficult to prevent. If a suicide bomber wants to walk into a public place, or drive a car bomb, or fly an airplane loaded with fuel into a public place, there is very little you can do to stop them. That is unless, through intelligence gathering, you get very lucky. The same will be true of low yield nuclear devices planted at power stations, transportation hubs or military installations. The same can be said for poisoning a water supply with chemical or biological weapons. The list and methods are as long as one's imagination. The whole world knows this, both the perpetrators and the potential victims. This, along with small regional conflicts in which terrorism will be employed, is the way wars will be fought. Relatively speaking, it is inexpensive warfare and even the smallest of groups can succeed to some measure. It is also a method, most terrorist groups believe, to make a political or religious statement.
No terrorist group or government suddenly becomes a world threat. Granted, a terrorist group may first come to world attention as a result of a violent act on their part. However, they do start small as a manageable threat. Similarly, political regimes with world mischief in mind could be controlled or countered in their early stages. Most of these groups give us early warning if we would pay attention. It often comes in the form of rhetoric and bitter tirades. Therefore, only the most naive or wishful thinking among us can fail to realize the dangerous intentions in the early stages of the development of these groups or governments. As has been said before in this work and will be said again, it is far better to solve a problem in its early stages while it is still manageable than after it has become a large problem which has spun out of control...
The key is that the initial enforcement of the edicts of the UGSP must be ruthless and efficient. Most terrorist and most ambitious "rogues" have no rules except to do whatever is necessary to accomplish their ends. Therefore, the UGSP's enforcement must take whatever actions are necessary to inflict the greatest possible unnerving damage to the target group, without any limitations. Those are the terrorist rules of engagement and so they will be the UGSP's rules of engagement. The enforcement must also be efficient. That is, if actions can be planned and executed so as to minimize the large scale involvement of UGSP assets and exposure, and those actions can minimize civilian exposure, they should be utilized. In any case, early enforcements by the UGSP should be so devastating and demoralizing to the targeted groups so as to discourage future world security threatening ambitions.
Certainly, before any action is taken the intelligence must be first rate and reliable. Many of the nations proposed as member nations of the UGSP have excellent intelligence operations. Given the proposed diversity of nations within the UGSP and their diverse perspectives and resources, the resultant intelligence will be far better than any one nation could gather on its own. Additionally, depending on the nature of a particular problem, some non-member states may very likely be willing to contribute intelligence. This will be especially true if they have been convinced that it is very much in their national interest to co-operate...
This work has addressed the idea of a world "policeman" as being an unpopular concept with most of the people and the nations of the world. It has also addressed the fears as to sovereignty and domination. There are justified fears of favoritism and exploitation by a power or a group of powers which are capable of exercising military control. These are strong arguments against the formation of a UGSP. At the outset this author will agree that one would not be able to win total world acceptance to such an idea. If that total acceptance were considered possible, it is conceivable that the world would already have a UGSP. However, there are ways to make it it least tolerable in its initial stages. Long term acceptance will be achieved through the UGSP's "blind" adherence to justice and its "even handed" approach to world security.
In the meantime, unfortunately, the world continues to be plagued with crisis after crisis. Any one of these crisis could lead to a world disaster. How then does one put into place, and have accepted, a world security force, a UGSP? ...
The United States is a very productive nation with an enormous amount of economic power. It is a nation that, in the beginning of the twenty-first century, is able to sustain its military. In fact, in times of crises the United States can call on vast economic reserves. The United States is confident of its ability, its power and its proven capability to exercise that power in a time of crisis. The United States may be too confident. There are some sobering precedences.
It has been stated repeatedly in this work that no nation can afford an ever expanding empire. It has been the historic norm for the great powers to expand their influence and control to the point at which they can no longer sustain the economic burden. That has led to either their collapse or the reduction of their power to that of a second or third tier level of nations. In the last decade of the twentieth century and at the opening of the twenty-first century it appears that this is the road upon which the United States finds itself. However, the United States does not appear to be heeding this lesson of history. While the United States has partners in conflicts (occasionally different partners in different conflicts), the Unites States carries a disproportionate share of the load. The United States appears to do so willingly. Just as with the other prior "super power" nations of the world, the United States will find itself spending more on defense to be the "world policeman" than it can afford. . .
The nations of the Middle East must establish and accomplish several goals concurrently:
1. They must recognize that unrest comes from deprivation. They must no longer allow the "great satan", the United States and its western allies, to be the excuse or scapegoat for religion-based terrorism. They must face the fact that the problems are within their own countries. A satisfied and prosperous populace is rarely one that creates disorder.
2. While oil is still a valuable commodity, those governments must utilize some of that revenue for quality public services, infrastructure, healthcare and education. They must educate their population for future economic endeavors and begin to develop additional and alternative economic enterprises before the inevitable reductions in oil demand occurs.
3. They must recognize and thereby educate their citizens that the West and economically growing parts of Asia are not going to go away. They must educate their citizens to the fact that these regions are not a threat to their national or religious sovereignty. They must recognize and thereby educate their citizens that the West and Asia are an economic and technologic force to be joined for their own well-being and future prosperity. In short, the Middle East and its people must make actual, ideological and philosophical peace with the rest of the world. To not do so would be a grave social mistake. In summary, if these countries do not recognize that oil is not forever and fail to take the above steps, they will be greatly reduced in economic influence. They will enjoy little diplomatic power because they will have little to offer. They will find themselves overpowered if they become a world security threat...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century we are seeing that conflict and wars are not being fought by large armies on a battlefield. They are taking on the character of small groups employing guerrilla and/or terrorist tactics. They are tactics that are very difficult to defend against and no nation is safe or immune. Therefore, it does not matter whether or not a nation is a member state of the UGSP, it would be in everyone's security interest to cooperate with and contribute to the intelligence gathering capabilities of the UGSP.
The UGSP must establish an intelligence data base. That data base must include, but not be limited to, all the relevant information on the activities of potentially threatening individuals or groups. Anyone either questioned or arrested as a threat to a means of transportation or communication, worldwide, should have their information supplied to the data bank by the relevant agency or government. Anyone questioned or arrested for international drug trafficking or money laundering should be in the data bank. Any questionable international financial exchange should be in the data bank...It must be possible to predict trends and identify connections that could lead to the apprehension of terrorist before they are able to act. It is recognized that there are some groups, watchdogs for individual liberties, rights and privacies, that will argue against such measures. Sadly, the world has come to the point where some of those issues must be put aside.

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