WASHINGTON – A plan to defeat the “global jihad movement” has been released by a team of national security experts who say it offers a blueprint for a “counterjihad security architecture for America” to confront what they call the “existential struggle of our time,” according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Legacy National Security Advisory Group, founded by retired Army U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely under the auspices of his StandUpAmerica organization, claims U.S. foreign policy has fallen short in setting goals for the region that encompasses the Middle East and North Africa.
“The U.S. has limited national security objectives in the MENA region, but they are important and must be precisely defined,” Vallely told G2Bulletin.
He said the objectives of the blueprint are to defend U.S. diplomatic, intelligence and military assets in the region, keep open the naval, maritime and commercial sea lanes and defend the free passage of oil and other commercial goods.
In addition, he said, the United States must make sure critical waterways such as the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, the Red Sea and Suez Canal are not controlled by that jihadists or other forces “hostile” to the U.S. and the West.
The plan also calls for defense and support of regional allies to include Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Kurdish people.
In effect, Vallely said, the United States must seek a balance of power in the MENA region, rebuild the military and defeat the “global jihad movement.”
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In addition to Vallely, other members of the LNSAG include such national security luminaries as retired Admiral Ace Lyons, retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, as well as former CIA officer Clare Lopez who is the vice president for research and analysis with the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dennis Haney and Vallely’s Middle East expert Nagi Najjar.
The Legacy blueprint also said it is important to help create a “balance of power” between Shiite and Sunni Islamic forces, while avoiding actions to further destabilize the region “unless compelled in defense of other core U.S. national security objectives.”
“We must understand that fashionable policies like ‘exporting democracy.’ ‘COIN (counterinsurgency) winning hearts and minds’ and ‘nation building’ are futile among societies in thrall to Islamic law (Shariah),” it said.
“Sometimes accepting local strongman rule that supports U.S. and Western interests, even though not democratic, is the lesser of two evils when the alternative would be either chaos or an Islamic jihad-and-Shariah takeover,” the document said.
It also calls for rebuilding the U.S. military “ASAP” (as soon as possible), given that sequestration has “decimated” U.S. military readiness hindering its efforts to respond effectively to “national security requirements.”
It also said that Shariah law is a threat, calling on the White House to formulate and implement a national security strategy that “defines Islamic Law (Shariah) as an enemy threat doctrine.”
“It must be a priority objective of this new National Security Strategy to deter and defeat Islamic jihad globally,” the Legacy document said. “To do that, it will be necessary that U.S. national security leadership understand that the Shariah threat is advanced by way of jihad, which may be kinetic or non-kinetic.”
Get the rest of this report, and more, from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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