New Definitions of National & Global Security
The “Surviving Victory” Conference in Washington DC was a founding initiative of Strategic Demands.
“Strategic Demands of the 21st Century“, written by Roger Morris and Steven Schmidt, introduced
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“The moment requires bold innovative approaches to our interests and responsibilities on a drastically changed, swiftly changing planet.
What we see as essential to a wide-ranging democratic discussion and debate is a new strategic discourse, addressing causes as well as effects… We must look ahead, envision and plan… educate and act.”
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New Definitions of Security
Strategic Demands: A New Vision for a New World
Strategic Demands of the 21st Century: A New Vision for a New World
by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt
“Roger Morris and Steve Schmidt evoke history, envision political alternatives and offer a provocative reappraisal of national security policy in a swiftly changing world…”
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Mideast woes alarm U.S. experts
UPI / September 22, 2006
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In 2005, Roger Morris and Steven Schmidt, continuing their collaboration, wrote Strategic Demands of the 21st Century: a New Vision for a New World. This “Security Brief” looked at key strategic decisions over the past two decades by US policy-makers — and envisioned alternative policies to reshape the post Cold War world.
At the “Surviving Victory” Conference in Washington D.C. in 2006, participants included Susan Rice who went on to become President Obama’s U.S. national security advisor, Winslow Wheeler, who presented at our request a ‘comprehensive’ overview of the US Defense Budget, and Steve Clemons who continues exceptional independent work in the field of national and international security affairs.
Strategic Demands and GreenPolicy360 join in developing “New Definitions of National and Global Security.”
Welcome to our work-in-progress and our ‘eOS outreach’ to a fast developing worldwide web and globally connected community.
As new security threats arise, and are recognized extending far beyond national borders, a new 21st century vision becomes a strategic necessity.
In a larger sense, ‘security is indivisible.’ Security policy works best when it is sustainable and lasting. Wars that produce ‘blowback’ and reverberate generation-to-generation fail to deliver effective geopolitical, enduring solutions.
Larger, global threats — climate change, disrupted economics, suppressed quality of life — are here, now, and on the horizon. These threats extend far beyond solutions offered by hard power and ultimate hard power, nuclear weapons. A calculus of war and new nuclear arms race is no path to pursue with hubris, ignoring sands of time and a veritable hourglass set before us.
“Surviving Victory” means changing strategies when orthodox strategies of victory have failed and continue to fail. Today’s U.S. record of failed wars, “perpetual war”, and devastating costs of war, deep costs of war, must come to an end.
As nations across the planet confront an array of unprecedented, existential threats, Strategic Demands looks forward to new, values-based, realistic politics. Now is time for open-eyed vision.
R. Morris at New Definitions of National Security Conference
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Roger_Morris_Bio
S. Schmidt at the New Definitions of
National Security Conference
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A New Vision of Security
In the 2000s, Strategic Demands and GreenPolicy360 join in alliance to develop New Definitions of Security
The roots of Strat Dem and GreenPolicy360 developed in the 1990s with the meeting of Roger Morris, who was on the National Security Council in the 1960s, and Steve Schmidt, who was a California coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee in 1969.
In 2022-23, your Strategic Demands editor was approached by PBS documentary film producers and interviewed for an upcoming film. I added interview proposals to the original film narrative to bring more into focus the revelations of Dan Ellsberg and NSC senior staff member Roger Morris. The input and new freedom on information research brought forward in the development of the documentary film assisted the production company. Roger Morris, a key Strategic Demands associate over the years, became a central person interviewed for the film, as were NSC members of that era, Mort Halperin and Tony Lake.
The Nuclear War close call the film reveals is another warning in a series of critically impactful warnings of the need, the necessity, to control nuclear weapons before the sands of time wear down and the humanity’s time to act expires.
Those who were up close to the commander-in-chief, who had the authority to order ‘first use’ of nuclear weapons experienced how very close we all came to the chasm of Nixon and Kissinger…
Our generation and every future generation should not forget.
It’s time for sane action, not a nuclear arms race 3.0
In the “Movement and the Madman” 2023 documentary, PBS reveals how close the U.S. came to using nuclear weapons during the Vietnam war.
Daniel Ellsberg, a nuclear war planner recalls in his 2017 book “Doomsday Machine“, a confessional memoir, how the Vietnam Moratorium Committee peace demonstrations of October-November 1969 kept President Nixon from ordering a nuclear attack.
Daniel Ellsberg and Nixon-Kissinger National Security Council senior staff have now, with this film, gone on record explaining how the 1969 peace movement acted to prevent U.S. president from commanding the use of nuclear weapons.
An additional point, ‘Madman’ in the title could have been ‘Madmen’ because at that point in history, Henry Kissinger was deeply entwined in the war policy, the tactics and command decisions in Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger together escalated — and together they planned to use nuclear weapons to ‘send a message’. ‘Targets were picked’, operational plans made. Nixon and Kissinger were on a mad-mission…
A Vietnam Moratorium Peace Movement
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In 1969 unprecedented demonstrations for peace in the US in 1969, a PBS public broadcasting special reveals that Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger planned to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam, but were dissuaded by the ‘power of protest’…
Regional nuclear war triggering global nuclear nuclear war and cataclysm was avoided, barely.
Today, the threats of nuclear disaster continue on, a tragedy the next generation is inheriting and must act to avoid.
Strategic Demands speaks of a Cold War 2.0, Nuclear Arms Race 3.0, of a “Singular Authority” and command and control with ‘modernization’ injecting a next generation of ‘usable’ nuclear weapons, tactical ‘dial up’ yields, artificial intelligence (AI) targeting as the ‘singular authority‘ of a president to order the launch of nuclear war could be put into the hands of an unstable president…
The alarm is raised, a clarion call. Turn, turn, turn. Before it’s too late… Turn away from nuclear weapons, return to nuclear weapons agreements, and learn from the errors and ‘close calls’ of the past in order to avoid cataclysmic disaster in the future.
Watch the PBS 2023 Documentary — The Movement and the ‘Madman’
Scenes from the Documentary here — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhHcq-IUQo
‘American Experience’ — memories of Nixon-Kissinger, National Security Council, the Vietnam Moratorium peace movement and ‘near-nuclear use’ revealed in the PBS special event documentary, March 2023
https://greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Movement_and_the_Madman_-_PBS_-_March_2023
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