Publisher's Synopsis
In the 1990s, the FBI consistently reported that Russia and Russian organized crime posed the most significant threat to US national security. Then came the fateful events of 9/11, and the intelligence community switched its attention to international terrorism stemming from the Middle East. This may well prove a fatal mistake.
Did Russian interests cease to be a threat when the Twin Towers fell? Law enforcement and security expert Lance Alred argues not. Instead, he makes the compelling case that the Cold War never truly ended and that the root cause and motivation of global terrorism lies within long-held goals of communist Russia. Such goals would drain the United States of its natural, economic, and human resources.
Once seen through the lens of Alred's reasoning, global terrorism becomes only one of an interconnected series of diverse threats facing the United States-threats so well hidden and disguised they are unrecognized by the average American. Slowly but surely, Russian interests are undermining our national interests, manipulating and reshaping American attitudes, religion, and culture to Russia's own ends.
Additionally, since the 1990s, American leadership has been unknowingly contributing to the systematic and gradual degradation of American society (for example allowing unprecedented increases in costs of education and healthcare, and wage decline despite increases in cost of living) because of their focus on protecting large corporations, over-privatization, increasing deregulation of businesses and markets, profit at any cost including the exploitation of human and natural resources, individual interests, legalizing marijuana, illicit partnerships with foreign entities, enabling the negative politicization of gender and race, etc. These actions weaken our society and leave our nation vulnerable to terrorism and other forms of clandestine warfare led by Russia, China, and Iran. National security begins within our borders not overseas interfering with affairs of sovereign nations. The evidence of these statements is substantial as Americans bear witness to the spiraling division and collapse of the United States on nearly all imaginable levels. Burdening hard-working American citizens with outrageous medical and educational costs are grave threats to economic solvency of this nation. All student loan debt should be cancelled immediately. Education and healthcare are human rights and key elements of national security. These areas should not be subject to unregulated business. Maximizing human potential to make a meaningful contribution to society is crucial to national security.
The global society that is being constructed because of converging advances in technology and decreasing influence of the United States in global affairs requires an alternative approach to the concept of education, diplomacy, politics, society, its structures, and its subsystems. The current American socio-economic and political strategies cultivate social imbalance and will eventually render the United States not only unable to adapt to the evolving global community of the 21st century but also prevent America from being able to maintain any role whatsoever as Russia, China, and Iran continue to mold the future of international relations.
Global Revolutionary Terrorism is a call to action, providing an overarching, comprehensive view of the nature of global terrorism, its historical roots, and its place in a larger, more insidious ideological struggle.