Even after experiencing the horrors of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, FBI whistleblower, Garret O’Boyle, told The Epoch Times that his experiences as a whistleblower have been worse.
“It has taken more of a toll than war, and I think that’s really quite the statement,” he said. “I think part of that is because
I never thought I would be a target of my own government for trying to do what’s right, for trying to live up to the oath that I’ve taken.”
But he’s wrong about one thing.
What he’s experiencing at home IS war.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been waging a “shadow war” against the U.S. for decades, using democratic institutions against themselves. Through infiltration, bribery, extortion, and other means, they have weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) including the FBI, along with other agencies against the American people.
Unrestricted Warfare, a 1999 book by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, details a new kind of warfare, and many in the U.S. are only just beginning to catch on. They wrote of taking “the line of least resistance and the direction of action least expected by the enemy,” and the “expansion of the arena of war encompassing the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, and psychological spheres, in addition to the land, sea, air, space, and electronics spheres,” adding, “the interactions among all factors have made it difficult for the military sphere to serve as the automatic dominant sphere in every war. War will be conducted in non-war spheres…there is now no domain which warfare cannot use…”
General Michael T. Flynn and Sergeant Boone Cutler explain “Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW)” in The Citizen’s Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare.
1. First generation warfare is pre-gunpowder.
2. Second generation warfare introduced the aspect of weapons that used gunpowder.
3. Third generation warfare incorporated flying machines, tanks, trench warfare, rockets, long-range artillery.
4. Fourth generation warfare introduced atomic and nuclear weapons, as well as the concept of state and non-state actors, including terrorists, seeking to achieve political goals on a global stage.
5. Fifth generation warfare evolved when the overlap of hybrid, irregular, and unrestricted warfare became directed at societies to affect the cognitive battlespace: the belief system of civilians and other target audiences that equaled more value than just the geography or ideology of a nation or its leaders.
The world inherited the maxim “all warfare is based upon deception” from the The Art of War, written in the 5th century B.C. Yet many in the United States—including some top military officials—cling to outdated assumptions, unaware that this foundational 7,000-year-old warfare strategy is alive and well in China. As Lt. Col. J.L. Schley expressed in 1929, generals are always planning to fight the last war instead of the next one.
“You know, everybody says, ‘well, [China has] a 300-ship navy, and China has outstripped us,’” said a U.S. Colonel on a YouTube Short I recently saw, “Why China’s Navy is a JOKE.”
“100 of those vessels are coast guard vessels,” he said. “Nobody ever brings that up. Nobody ever brings up the fact that Chinese really don’t like to go to sea. They don’t want to be out there. It’s not a seafaring nation. They have just started a submarine fleet that is nuclear and nuclear capable. Well, we’ve been doing that since the 1950s. It takes decades to build a force like that, to train the people, to organize them, and equip them effectively. China has huge problems just holding itself together. So, I think we should set China aside and understand that it is not this juggernaut…”
“From now on, soldiers no longer have a monopoly on war,” The colonels wrote, calling 5GW “a type of war that nobody even imagined in the past…likely to be very intense, but with practically no bloodshed.”
“Nevertheless, it is likely to determine who is the victor and who the vanquished in an overall war.”
The CCP is counting on us to underestimate China.
The U.S. continues to think in conventional, 4GW terms, that the strongest military wins the war. How did this thinking turn out in Vietnam or Afghanistan?
China would rather not go head-to-head with the U.S. Military. Taking a page from The Art of War, the CCP considers winning without fighting the pinnacle of success. Even in a kinetic war, the CCP knows the U.S. would be very unlikely to use its “ultra-lethal” nuclear arsenal. The CCP could wage a war of attrition using cheap weapons to consume the Americans’ expensive ones, “attacking birds with golden bullets.”
General Spaulding points this out in his excellent book, War Without Rules. “Until recently, the CCP chose to maintain a minimal nuclear arsenal, just enough to deter any other nation’s potential nuclear strike. By keeping its stockpile modest and its nuclear budget limited, the Chinese avoided the massive expenses that helped bring down the Soviet Union. As their wealth has grown, the Chinese have added to their nuclear stockpile, creating alarm and some confusion among Western analysts. Are new silos and warheads just a deepening of their deterrence force, or is this a change of strategy in creating an offensive nuclear capability? Is it perhaps a ruse, with empty silos or hollow missiles meant to provoke the United States and others to waste yet more billions?”
Unrestricted warfare is more effective and takes more of a toll than conventional warfare alone, as the book points out. “During a war between two countries…is it necessary to use special means to wage psychological war…? When protecting a country’s financial security, can assassination be used…? Can special funds be set up to exert greater influence on another country’s government and legislature through lobbying? And could buying or gaining control of stocks be used to turn another country’s newspapers and television stations into the tools of media warfare?”
“From now on, soldiers no longer have a monopoly on war,” the colonels wrote, calling 5GW “a type of war that nobody even imagined in the past…likely to be very intense, but with practically no bloodshed.”
“Nevertheless, unrestricted warfare is likely to determine who are the victors and who the vanquished in an overall war.”
Kelly John Walker is an American statesman, senior writer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Communications Director for Lindell Legal Offense Fund, Founder of FreedomTalk, and Editor-in-Chief for FreedomTalk Magazine.
Kelly’s work has been published in The Washington Times, Gateway Pundit, The Epoch Times, Andrew Magazine, Newsmax, Townhall, Law Enforcement Today, and more. He’s often asked to appear on such programs as The Eric Metaxas Show, Bannon’s War Room, Real America’s Voice, The Alex Newman Show, Conservative Daily, NTD News, the Sam Sorbo Show, and more.
Kelly holds a BA in English & Theology, and a Master of Science degree on a graduate fellowship with the US Department of Defense. He had a distinguished career as a conservation professional, founded two award-winning advertising agencies. In 2020, Kelly joined the fight for freedom as an independent journalist after making a bold stand against tyranny that saw him canceled out of a job and arrested twice for speaking out.
