Professor Kiji Noh in San Francisco: Hal Brands, the coauthor of this belligerent article, is not only a member of the hawkish rightwing think tank AEI, he is a member of CNAS. CNAS is the new PNAC.

Professor Kiji Noh in San Francisco: Hal Brands, the coauthor of this belligerent article, is not only a member of the hawkish rightwing think tank AEI, he is a member of CNAS. CNAS is the new PNAC.

PNAC (Project for the New American Century) were the neocon crazies who drove the US to senseless war in the middle east. They had dreams of global imperial domination.

CNAS (Center for a New American Security) are the neo-neocon crazies who are driving us to war with China. They, too, dream of continued US global domination.

Here is a detailed example of their strategy towards China: they envision and plan direct kinetic war with China, for example, multi-pronged strikes deep within Chinese territory as part of their 3 & 4th offset strategy.

“The United States can assure access to bastions within Chinese or Russian territory that were previously considered safe by forcing those geographically vast countries to spread out their defensive capabilities to the point of being porous or forcing them to concentrate limited resources around key infrastructure, thus creating large accessible holes in their outer defenses…new missiles could bring would help create opportunities to attack an enemy from multiple axes of approach, a true strategic advantage that needs to be re-established. It would force China and Russia, which possess large land masses and very long and dispersed territorial and maritime boundaries, to distribute scarce defensive resources accordingly and prepare for attack from disparate points of origin…Going forward with a strategic eye toward China and Russia, a well-designed future carrier air wing should return to its historical strategic focus of being able to hold targets deep inside the Eurasian land mass at risk.”

Note how these plans are oriented towards overcoming Chinese defensive capacity against US coercion and regime change, not responding to Chinese offensive threat.

“for the past 20 years nations such as China…have been making investments in new anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities that seek to push the United States back from their borders and limit its [the US’s] ability to coerce or bring about regime change”.

Since its inception in 2007, CNAS has a record of catastrophic failures: it architected and implemented the US’s corrupt, war-crime-based losing strategy in Afghanistan known as “COIN”. (Notice how the COIN documents at Brookings have now been scrubbed.)

CNAS’s Asher also exploded the six-party talks with NK by sanctioning it right after agreements were reached. This was the last good chance of de-escalation with NK. https://www.cnas.org/people/david-asher
It was the imperial brain trust for Obama’s criminal wars in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere. It is now Joe Biden’s privy war council.

CNAS was founded in 2007 by the architect of the Pivot to Asia, Kurt Campbell (Currently the Asia Czar in Biden’s administration) and Michelle “Sink China’s navy in 72 hrs” Flournoy. They originally started out at CSIS. Flournoy also went onto found WestExec with Anthony Blinken.

16 members of Biden’s top cabinet are CNAS: Eli Ratner (“Orient everything around war with China”), Rush Doshi (“Blunt China at all costs”), Victoria “F*ck the EU” Nuland, Avril Haines, Kurt Campbell (Asia Czar–China-NSC). Jake Sullivan (NSC), Wendy Sherman (under secretary of State), Laura Rosenberger (GMF/Alliance for Democracy), etc. Nick Burns is incoming as ambassador to China.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_a_New_American_Security

They are supported by a rogues gallery of arms manufacturers.
https://www.cnas.org/support-cnas/cnas-supporters

Hal Brands is married to a Taiwanese woman, Elaine Chang, whose father (Matthew Chang) worked as Asst.V.P for the Japanese company Itochu, one of the funders of CNAS.