The Final War
Avoiding it Through a New Harmonic Society
Particularly since the extraordinary opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, many new books have become available on the subject of China. However, none of them present from a Latin American perspective. The Final War, Avoiding it Through a Harmonic Society, this two-part book first describes how the paths of these two super-powers lead inexorably to war. The second part makes known the author philosophy of social harmony and how it can be used to avoid that war.
The book begins with a review of the geopolitical map of Halford MacKinder which placed the terrestrial heartland in Eastern Europe. MacKinder declared that world control emanated from that locale. Morote-Solari re-draws the lines of this heartland so that the center becomes Jerusalem, and so that the extension of this area includes America. This re-alignment allows a global view of the leading nations of the world. Further, this aspect shows the areas of repeated and/or protracted military confrontation. In this new heartland, major players and events are visible in their historic as well as current roles. And, like chess pieces on a board, the directions in which countries move often signal their intent.
With Jerusalem at the center, Morote-Solari points out that the Middle East crises have actually moved further east, and now Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are in actual or near combat. Two points are critical here: Afghanistan and Pakistan share borders with China, and the US already has a military presence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
The book begins with a review of the geopolitical map of Halford MacKinder which placed the terrestrial heartland in Eastern Europe. MacKinder declared that world control emanated from that locale. Morote-Solari re-draws the lines of this heartland so that the center becomes Jerusalem, and so that the extension of this area includes America. This re-alignment allows a global view of the leading nations of the world. Further, this aspect shows the areas of repeated and/or protracted military confrontation. In this new heartland, major players and events are visible in their historic as well as current roles. And, like chess pieces on a board, the directions in which countries move often signal their intent.
With Jerusalem at the center, Morote-Solari points out that the Middle East crises have actually moved further east, and now Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are in actual or near combat. Two points are critical here: Afghanistan and Pakistan share borders with China, and the US already has a military presence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
Harmony, No War!
Even though it might appear that the US is taking the battle to China, Morote-Solari does not think so. Rather, he reviews WWII history in Latin America in which Germany developed a plan to attack the US by separating it from its southern neighbors. The Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) strategized for control of the Americas. German and Italian troops would cross the Atlantic Ocean leaving from northwest Africa (Senegal and Liberia) and travel to the closest area of South America. This landing site would include the northeast projection of Brazil: Fortaleza, Natal, Recifre, and Campina Grande. Their plan called for Japanese leaving Peru while the Nazi Fifth Column already established in Chile would attack. A successful campaign in South and Central America would leave the US virtually defenseless because of its lengthy coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and on the Gulf Coast. This plan was unsuccessful for the Axis Powers because Latin American nation-leaders were armed and supported the Allies (even though support came later from some countries than others).
Likewise, China would not try to invade an unconquered US, but would try to isolate it from Latin America. Leaving from Peru, China would move toward Bolivia and Paraguay. These countries have multiple sources of wealth, ecological zones, and cocaine production. Next, China would separate Brazil and Argentina in order to conquer them. At the same time, Chinese armies would arrive in Cusco, Peru, and would continue northward by the Andes toward Venezuela, thus repeating the plan developed by the Axis Powers of WWII. Morote-Solari shows how this plan might be successful for the Chinese because the countries which provided the strongest military support to the Allies in WWII (Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru) have, at this writing, been disarmed. Moreover in the past, Chinese communities in Latin American countries—as in the case of other nations—have provided particular support to the war efforts originating in the home country.
War is just the first part of the story. In the second part of the book, Morote-Solari describes his philosophy for social harmony.