"Swarming" to Produce Regime Change in Iran
America Manipulates 'Color Revolutions'
In his new book, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order, F. William Engdahl explained a new form of US covert warfare - first played out in Belgrade, Serbia in 2000.Since then the same methods have been used in 'Georgia's 'Rose' revolution, the Ukraine's 'Orange' revolution. Myanmar's [Burma] 'Saffron' revolution, and Tibet's 'Crimson' revolution [just before the Beijing Olympics].
What appeared to be "spontaneous and genuine political 'movements,' (in fact) was the product of techniques" developed in America over decades.
The latest 'color' revolution is Iran's 'Green Revolution.' How can anyone claim that it was a spontaneous and genuine uprising?
After the June 12 election, days of street protests and clashes with Iranian security forces followed.
Given Washington's history of stoking tensions and instability in the region, its role in more recent color revolutions, and its years of wanting regime change in Iran, analysts have strong reasons to suspect America is behind post-election turbulence.
A one-sided Western media go into full propaganda mode, claiming electoral fraud and calling for a new vote, much like the events in Georgia, Ukraine, and so on.
In the 1990s, RAND Corporation strategists developed the concept of "swarming" to explain "communication patterns and movement of" bees and other insects which they applied to military conflict by other means.
In his book Engdahl explained the RAND Corporation's groundbreaking research on military conflict by other means.
He cited researchers John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt's 1997 "Swarming & The Future of Conflict" document "on exploiting the information revolution for the US military.
By taking advantage of network-based organizations linked via email and mobile phones to enhance the potential of swarming, IT techniques could be transformed into key methods of warfare."
In 1993, Arquilla and Ronfeldt prepared an earlier document titled "Cyberwar Is Coming!" It suggested that "warfare is no longer primarily a function of who puts the most capital, labor and technology on the battlefield, but of who has the best information about the battlefield" and uses it effectively.
They cited an information revolution using advanced "computerized information and communications technologies and related innovations in organization and management theory."
They foresaw "the rise of multi-organizational networks" using information technologies "to communicate, consult, coordinate, and operate together across greater distances" and said this ability will affect future conflicts and warfare.
They explained that "cyberwar may be to the 21st century what blitzkrieg was to the 20th century" but admitted back then that the concept was too speculative for precise definition.
The 1993 document focused on military warfare. In 1996, Arquilla and Ronfeldt studied netwar and cyberwar by examining "irregular modes of conflict, including terror, crime, and militant social activism."
Then in 1997, they presented the concept of "swarming" and suggested it might "emerge as a definitive doctrine that will encompass and enliven both cyberwar and netwar" through their vision of "how to prepare for information-age conflict."
They called "swarming" a way to strike from all directions, both "close-in as well as from stand-off positions." Effectiveness depends on deploying small units able to interconnect using revolutionary communication technology.
As explained above, what works on battlefields has proved successful in achieving non-violent color revolution regime changes, or coup d'etats by other means.
The same strategy appears in play in Iran, but it's too early to tell if it will work as so far the government has prevailed.
However, for the past 30 years, America has targeted the Islamic Republic for regime change to control the last major country in a part of the world over which it seeks unchallenged dominance.
It doesn't matter if the current confrontation in Iran fails. Expect future ones ahead as imperial America never quits. More...