An Account of How The West Was Lost
Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, Ret.)


Author: Colonel Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)

Date Published: 2007-06-28


 

Terrorists appear to have understood that boldness at the right moment brings rewards
in their asymmetrical war against Western civilization. FSM Contributing Editor Col. Ken Allard (US Army Ret.) writes an explosively sardonic commentary, ridiculing our faint-hearted warfare.
 
An Account of How The West Was Lost 
 
By Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, Ret.)
 
I respectfully greet the Supreme Council of the Grand Ayatollahs, gratefully acknowledging their request that I, the Revolutionary Guards Chief of Staff, recount how we in Iran gloriously won the First Cyber War of 2007 against the Great Satan. The Almighty grants victory in such things: but we had much help from the stupidity and arrogance of the Americans themselves.
 
That is why our guerrilla forces over the last month have triumphed from Iraq to Lebanon, why the Zionist entity has been reduced to a shivering enclave now awaiting its next Masada. Most of all: why the proud American military has been mercilessly exposed as a humbled, hamstrung giant – like a fable from one of their children’s books.
 
Tensions of course had been rising for years while we hurried to perfect our atomic weapons, taking full advantage when the Americans fell into the tar-pits of Iraq. Sensing that great opportunities beckoned, we sent our clandestine expeditionary forces into Lebanon while tripling arms shipments to our Shi’ite brothers in Iraq and our allies in Hamas. The results were encouraging: but did our aggressiveness in any of these places result in a counter-attack upon Teheran? Were we required to bind up painful wounds inflicted by an outraged West, which decisively out-numbered us in every military balance? We were not. Thus we came to understand the greater lesson that boldness at the right moment would bring even greater rewards.
 
Ten years earlier, the Chinese had shown us the way with perceptive writings on “unrestricted warfare” using high-technology cyber-techniques. The objective: to wreak destruction not only upon the enemy’s military forces but also on his industries, economy and infrastructure – even his environment. Incredibly, the West carefully studied these writings, their defense experts openly debating the likelihood of an “Electronic Pearl Harbor” and “asymmetric warfare” - but never accomplishing much beyond all the talking.
 
We then watched with delight as the airliner attacks by Sheikh Osama – blessings be upon him! – achieved their intended operational goals while inflicting even greater damage to the economy of the infidel. It was a great lesson. While we longed to engage American military forces, an indirect attack upon the ill-gotten and deceitful gold of their Wall Street masters would surely be the most decisive of all possible blows!
 
With their manufacturing skills and access to Western markets, the Chinese continued to be helpful as we maintained our surveillance of the American economy. Even the decadent culture of Western youth, where computer hacking had become an amateur sport, proved useful as we explored and tracked the weak points in the enemy’s cyber defenses. 
 
But it was the American commercial elites, drunk with the need to save money by exploiting cheap “coolie labor” overseas, who reminded us that Lenin had been right all along in observing that the capitalist would gladly sell you the rope intended to hang him. Certain of those capitalists in the American money and banking industries had become accustomed to “out-sourcing” the software used to control key day-to-day financial operations. The grunt work of coding this software was typically done in developing countries at fractions of the cost required elsewhere – often without even bothering to check its integrity.
 
The pathway was thus made wonderfully clear for the insertion of trap doors, “system defeats” and hidden passwords by those software coolies, who understood far better than any rich industrialist that software is a perishable good which can be traded, bartered and diluted – just like many other commodities.
 
The Iranian intelligence service was not alone in acquiring those commodities - even, let us say, achieving “controlling interests” in some of them. When, in the summer of 2007, Western analysts suggested withdrawing American investments from Iran in order to rein in our atomic research program, we knew the time was right to show them who was really in control of what.
 
Great Ones: Be patient and next week I will tell you how we conducted the attack, of the piteous American wails when we shut down their cell phones, Blackberrys and ATMs. But why it did them no good.
 
 
(To be continued)
 
Story originally ran in the MySA.com.

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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Colonel Kenneth Allard (U.S. Army, ret.) is an executive-in-residence at UTSA and the author of "Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War." and San Antonio Express-News. Email: Warheads6@aol.com

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