Cantor Fitzgerald Risk Assessment
In the late 1990s, Thomas Barnett, a Harvard-educated professor of military strategy at the Naval War College, teamed up with the bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald to study how the US military might react to a hypothetical, interconnected catastrophe such as a terrorist attack on Wall Street. The results were grim. "People heard our brief," Barnett later recalled, "but everyone thought we were too apocalyptic, too out-there."
The largest corporate victim of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001?
Cantor Fitzgerald.
The firm, which occupied 250,000 square feet in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, lost 658 of its 960 employees.
(Within weeks, Barnett was called to the Pentagon and installed as the assistant for strategic futures in the Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense.)
http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=16044In what Barnett calls a "Grand March of History" he claims that the U.S. military must be transformed in order to preemptively take control of the gap, so the U.S. can "manage" the global distribution of resources, people, energy, and money. (It has long predicted that the gap between rich and poor around the world will continue to widen and that the Pentagon will be used to keep the boot on the necks of the people of the third world to the benefit of corporate globalization.)
Barnett predicts that U.S. unilateralism will lead to the "inevitability
of war." Referring to Hitler in a recent presentation, Barnett reminded his military audience that the Nazi leader never asked for permission before invading other countries. Thus, the end to multi-lateralism.
Barnett argues that the days of arms talks and international treaties are over. "There is no secret where we are going," he says as he calls for a "new ordering principle" at the Department of Defense (DoD). Barnett maintains that as jobs move out of the U.S. the primary export product of the nation will be "security." Global energy demand will necessitate U.S. control of the oil producing regions. "We will be fighting in Central Africa in 20 years," Barnett predicts.
In order to implement this new military vision," Barnett maintains that the U.S. military must move away from its often-competing mix of Air Force-Navy-Army-Marines toward two basic military services. One he names Leviathan, which he defines as the kick ass, wage war, special ops, and not under the purview of the international criminal court. Give us your angry, video game-playing 18-19 year olds, for the Leviathan force, Barnett says. Once a country is conquered by Leviathan, Barnett says the U.S. will have to have a second military force that he calls Systems Administration. This force he describes as the "proconsul" of the empire, boots on the ground, the police force to control the local populations. This group, Barnett says, "will never come home."
http://www.rense.com/general61/agemnda.htmReferring to Hitler in a recent presentation,
Barnett reminded his military audience that
the Nazi leader never asked for permission before invading other countries.
Thomas Barnett claims to be a Democrat.