Unity NOW Forward: American Economic Warfare ? copyright 2024 by Adrian T. Bogart III, Madison Rousseau, Washington, DC
Thoughts on a New American Business Model to Win the Economic War we are in.
U P F R O N T
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Adrian T. Bogart III
Madison Rousseau
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TABLE OF THOUGHTS
First Thought and Opener
Call to Action
OUTLINE
THOUGHT 1.? Let’s Think
THOUGHT 2.? Is Change Old or New? | Good or Bad?
THOUGHT 3.? Are We Safe?
THOUGHT 4.? Opportunity for Competitive Advantage
THOUGHT 5.? The New Organizational Way
THOUGHT 6.? The Way Ahead
Last Thoughts and Wrap-Up
First Thought and Opener
Let’s have a discussion. Better yet, let’s have a frank conversation.?
Let’s get away from the stoic writing styles of eloquent dissertations, of finely manicured literature, edited into the status quo, and delivering no meaning. Let’s think. Let’s exchange. Let’s strategize. Let’s talk war.
If you agree with this, start reading.? If you don’t, please do not waste your time. This book is going to be complex, in thought and not in volume. We have organized thoughts; some connected, some disjointed, some unstructured, but all delivered by dialog.? We want you to be comfortable with a conversational writing style, constructed for clarity on what is being discussed.?
But more importantly, the intent is to convey thoughts and the background behind the complexities. This narrative is going to deliver some very deep and quick thinking, let you receive it to understand the thoughts.? Perhaps test you on what is being communicated and compel you.
The format in itself is different. We rely on life learning. On years of education. Ours is observational thought; inferred and learned. We communicate observations. Scribe your notes in the margins. Don’t get hung up on word counts, grammar check, just follow the thinking.
Call to Action
Let us talk timeliness. The reason why we are abandoning traditional publication formats is so we can get this discussion out. Communicating this thinking is essential to realizing that the United States is in an economic war and there is a new economic model which will gain advantage over our adversaries before conflict becomes armed.
If the global competing phase we are in does not get resolved in favor of the American economic order, then armed conflict with great-States is inevitable. The problem is that high armed conflict incorporates nuclear weapons. As much as it can be argued that it won’t, it will and the much theorized ‘doomsday’ prevails.
What this strategy advocates are changes to the business model so the United States re-assumes the economic competitive dominance over adversaries, gains a comparative advantage with partners and averts employment of military force. The design simply conducts economic warfare for all to win, hence averting armed conflict where all lose.? This strategy is a unity approach where all are involved and engaged in a total effort to win.
Introducing this work now becomes simple...the driving question is ‘How does the United States win the economic war we are in?’
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The Corporate NOW (New Organizational Way) Forward
Winning the economic war means we are all in and doing so as a complex world grows more aggressive.
Authors:
Madison Rousseau
Adrian T. Bogart III
?OUTLINE
THOUGHT 1.? Where We Were Before.
THOUGHT 2.? What Has Changed.
?THOUGHT 3.? The Threat to American Business.
THOUGHT 4.? Transforming American Business.
THOUGHT 5.? The Corporate Unity NOW Forward Model
?A visualization of what a Corporate NOW looks like.
?THOUGHT 6.? Next Steps Forward and Checklists
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THOUGHT 1.? Let’s Think
Where We Were Before.
Let’s Think...THOUGHT 1.? Where We Were Before.
The American Dream awakens with our first thought.
And what is the American Dream? Is it the bright shining city on the hill as President Reagan would say? Is it the aspiration of coming to this new land and succeeding?? Is it the idea of America being a melting pot with opportunity for all? Or, is it the wish to give my children a better life than what I had?
A better life for one’s children is primary and the rest of the reasons are ancillary.
In the 1980s, the American Dream was achieved. Parents gave their children a better life than what they had. On Wall Street back then, newly graduated college students who picked up line positions on Wall Street rang the Brokerage Houses at $100,000 a year in salary with a $50,000 Christmas bonus. Now that was a compensation plan. Yet fathers were at $35,000.00 a year as a baggage handler.
Across the Atlantic, American Junior Military Officers, charged with the mission to conduct a massive show of force to display the United States’ and NATO’s resolve to stop a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, made $840.00 per month.
Today, can the children of the young college graduate of the 1980s earn a starting salary of $150,000.00? If yes, not as wholesale as it was then.? Starting grads are lucky to come in at $60,000.00 annually, so in the 1980s we achieved the American Dream, and lost it along the way.
The 1980s was also the era in which the social strife of the 1960s and 1970s leveled and the American society’s focus on making money gained primacy. ?But what the 1980s achieved was the economic supremacy of multi-national corporations supported by an international world order under American-born and managed United Nations organizations.
In this mix came an outcome of the top 2%.? That is 2% of the population controlling 98% of the business wealth and the associated world wealth.? The American Dream was realized in that these children gained a better life than their parents, but their children could not promulgate an American Dream only entitled to their parents’ wealth.
But the world has changed around them.
A Cold War victory, the emergence of the War Against Terrorism and the rebirth of the Russian Government and the Chinese Communist Party, coupled with other malign dictatorships, have presented a different international landscape.
No longer are we consumed with bringing global military power to the Middle East to obliterate a couple of Al-Qaeda, Taliban or ISIS fighters huddled around some campfire in a remote and unnamed valley, but we now have bigger problems.
There is a hostile Russian Government whose leader is determined to gain national boundaries similar to Peter the Great. We have a Chinese Communist Party whose purpose in life is to supplant the existing international rules-based order developed by Brenton Woods with one of their own creation. And there are small dictatorships like Iran, Venezuela and the Taliban in Afghanistan which need to be ousted.? Now, more as a pest than a viable enemy force, are terrorists, under whatever banner they choose, but relatively easy to kill.
The security situation has prompted economic disorder, especially when you throw in a pandemic which has gutted the world, the Chinese Communist Party’s economic exploitation of the third world, aggressive inroads to free nations and Western Europe’s economic dependencies on Russian resources controlled by the Russian Government, being an almost reversed non-aggression pact.
The summation of these factors concludes that the world has been changed and now the business world must change, as well.
Change is never easy, especially when comfort levels have been reached.? Case in point. America has grand office buildings, customer service online, beautiful airports and airlines, expansive stores, wonderful opulence and fast food. It’s grand.? However, try introducing a new idea, a new way of doing business, which counters the established American bliss.
Go into your boss’ office tomorrow and lay out a new way of organizing the company.
Tell your boss eliminating half the workforce, hiring employees with higher education levels and greater experience, and then exporting back-office staff to home offices with an enhanced store front achieves greater efficiencies and, hence, profitability.?
Be as eloquent as you can and describe a new way of operating that reduces costs, overhead and increases productivity.?
Tell Corporate that overseas production bases and global supply lines are counterproductive and must be repositioned.
Better yet, try telling the establishment that innovation and tradition can live together.
Attempt, if you will, to convey that the reality of future American prosperity means re-evaluating the last twenty years and re-investing in America.
Yes, America is comfortable. Our roads are paved, our stores are open around the clock, we have streaming entertainment, we have cocooned ourselves in a new type of soma with mobile devices and social media. We dream in movies about the glory of past days. We are contentedly alone around ourselves and with others; we text next to each other, Americans are comfortable.
We have become so comfortable that we wane in competition. Only where we have competition and drive built into our systems of national power do we exert ourselves globally. Only when we have competition built into our social systems do we enjoy the game. Only when we have a zeal for greater technology to perpetuate our happiness do we excel.?
But not in our economic systems. We are not applying our competitive edge. We are not retiring from the same company we joined when we started. We are not focused on worker benefits, because of the costs. The Government paid us not to work. Sadly, we are not about economic power to perpetuate the American Way of Life.?
We are singularly focused on exchanging currency “tulips” and the United States has, in fact, exported our economic competition and centralized wealth. We have so centralized wealth that it has been exported away from America and not invested into it.
Before COVID-19, we were comfortable.? We had freedom to travel, mingle, entertain. We could pick up and go where we wanted and whenever we wanted. We held our dear ones in our arms. Sickness and death were routine. Schools were open, we were safe. America was a safe place.
America has progressed over the last hundred years first from an agrarian society where crop and beef ruled to an industrial giant rising to build the arsenal of democracy, crushing two global totalitarian superpowers simultaneously, and then to the service “servants” industry and now where we are today as a global technological icon with global economic multinational hegemons, led by Americans, moving the chess board pieces.
However, the COVID Pandemic changed all of that. The Pandemic showed that we were vulnerable. Vast weaknesses revealed. Indecision. Want. Death. Isolation. Suspicion, doubt, lack of confidence with authorities. Social norms moved. Factors which unseat a Nation. What were talked about and theorized in previous decades now current events.
How we managed the Pandemic is not germane to this narrative. How it happened, how it was handled, the people responsible, and much more make great debate elsewhere.?
What is important is the post-pandemic world and not the several versions Charlton Heston knew.
In a post-pandemic world, the only certainty is that all has changed. While we dwell in euphoric relief, we still dwell with danger. Variants come and go, but as a trend of disease-weakening continues, eventually either the pandemic subsides or we learn to live with it.?
Nevertheless, the pandemic changed every facet of society. Most importantly, how we do business.
The pandemic took its toll on American business. We saw isolated pockets benefitting from the service industry nature of the United States. Since I could not go out and shop, no problem, groceries were brought to me. I could order online and return if necessary. My home operating costs increased, but were offset nicely since I did not have to commute. I did not have to bother with the nuances at work, the idiot in the next cubicle and I was, quite frankly, accountable to myself.
And, while comforting on the home front, offices were empty, productivity declined, global supply lines strained and became the convenient excuse, and internet connectivity was stressed.
In fact, success in a post-COVID-19 world looks far different than before the virus. We have learned how to keep the rich wealthy while we were plagued by sickness.
As comfortable as we were before, we have moved through discomfort to realize our longing for the well-being once had. And that will not return until we address the paradigms of it.
Prior to COVID-19, American business focused on provisioning consumer products.
Prior to COVID-19, the American dollar was unchallenged.
Prior to COVID-19, China was an economic partner.
But all that has changed.
For the business wise and savvy, what will return after COVID-19 is an evolution from a service-based economy to a networked political-economic model where the connection between each other is the value in production and where the Government’s main purpose is economic well-being.
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THOUGHT 2.? Is Change Old or New? | Good or Bad?
?What Has Changed?
THOUGHT 2.? What Has Changed?
For the younger, old ways are to be abandoned. That is generally the generational predisposition which resides in America. Quite frankly, when it comes to age and the past, we are not respectful.
That attitude is indeed unfortunate. There are many ways of the past that have great guiding application for the present and our future. What is old is not necessarily outdated and that is a driving principle of successful modernization.
An example of this is America’s work ethic. Founded on Puritan principles, America forged itself from a series of settlements to the world’s superpower by way of a hard work ethic. Getting up early, working late hours, and a drive for success in business.
American steel manufacturing is another great example. All the buildings at one point in American history were made with American steel.? Where is America’s steel these days??
American shipping has fallen away.? American Clipper Ships, for its time, represented American trade dominance.? Sailing cargo across the Atlantic on an American Clipper was the common practice.
Those ships were made in America. Where are America’s ships now?
Principles of economic dominance are accurately defined by and lessoned from the past.
Hence, what was done in the past has some application to the future. It is a solid conclusion which addresses the new organizational way forward.
The pre-COVID business model is no longer the right organizational approach. Large office buildings, heavy staffs, more headquarters than production outlets, reliance on sales staff not employing manufacturers, coordinators instead of leaders.?
?An organizational business hierarchy of a service industry where the production base is overseas, the American population is not fully employed in manufacturing, where reliable American products and services, which are highly desired in overseas markets, are unwantedly satisfied by Chinese suppliers.
Not to mention multi-national businesses, headquartered in America, led by Americans, and selling the American brand, are not equally contributing to tax revenues for the United States.
This is the current American business model. Headquartered in America, made elsewhere, supplied back into home markets purchased by a population which is largely unemployed and heavily subsidized by the Government, who is printing a currency, defended by the greatest military in the history of the world. Neo-Mercantilism at its best.
But America is now being outcompeted by the very industrial base America exported to provide American products to America.
This is the state of America’s economy today.
Coming right along the languishing American business model is connectivity. Technology has changed how America does business; we are online. The pandemic forcing shoppers out of the shops is a factor which contributes to the new organizational way forward. Store closures have changed how America does business; more products are delivered now than before.
Managing American business has shifted home. Bosses, supervisors, workers, and staff are at home on their computers and phones, working. Limited or no office occupancy has changed how America does business; our office is at home.
Human interaction has changed how America does business; now we video chat. A video call is far more effective than an office visit.? Packing the schedule which eliminates travel means I can service multiple accounts, conduct multiple business transactions, touch more clients from my desk, than I could when traveling. However, the lack of human interaction is a vulnerability.
Wealth has changed how America does business; now the concentrated rich retain more wealth, while there are millions of Americans who live paycheck behind paycheck. The concentrated rich should do what great capitalists do and invest back into their organizations.?
Better salaries, greater child care, good benefits, longer vacations, and ultimately anything a corporate leader can do to gain and sustain corporate loyalty is always for the better. A worker who is loyal to the firm gives more. A worker who gives more increases productivity and lowers internal strife. A company that sufficiently cares for its employees builds a bond which lasts forever.
Connectivity has changed how America does business; we work more hours because we are tied to our communications. What that really means is that productivity is down. Access to mountains of information at any second is not profitable.?
Reduced production lines have changed how America does business; now we wait to receive our goods and services.? The greatest of the American economy is timeliness. See a purchase, purchase the product.
Disinfectant took a year to return to the shelves.? We rationed toilet paper for months.? Cars lack essential computer components. Just on the shelves is the way forward, not built to demand.
The American business model which captured the American Dream has been abandoned. And those American businesses who attempt to return to this pre-COVID environment corporate-service bureaucracy-model will fail to modernize and, hence, become out-competed.
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THOUGHT 3.? Are We Safe?
The Threat to American Business.
THOUGHT 3.? Are We Safe?
There is a fine line between keeping employees sufficiently content with their company and kowtowing to petulant individuals that do not want to work. Many American businesses seem to have blurred the line between these two different concepts to the point of a lack of recognition. There are two extremes between which businesses seem to have a hard time finding a happy medium: giving into any and all employee demands or making people work constantly for an unbearably low wage.
Companies should treat their employees well, giving them appropriate pay for the quality of work being done and for expertise needed, but they should deeply consider the effects on productivity and the larger economy before giving into demands. For example, if the company decides to pay employees a considerable amount more for doing little work, this will likely affect consumers and clients by increasing the price of goods and services. This can cause a domino effect very quickly. These larger effects should be taken into consideration by American businesses before making any business decisions.?
Individuals want to work less, while getting paid more for doing so. People demand fewer days of work in both the office and at home with greater pay and so on.
Essentially, many American companies have become analogous to a parent giving an angry child anything the child demands to stem his cries, not realizing that the child is only being set up to be a spoiled brat with no work ethic and who expects everything to be given to him. Now, this may seem harsh, but sometimes tough love is necessary.
Along with the increasing lethargy of many employed individuals, the U.S. government may be exacerbating laziness with high U.S. unemployment budgets. These budgets afforded to the unemployed could incentivize these individuals not to attain jobs and become part of the American workforce.
While welfare designated for the unemployed significantly decreased after the fiscal year of 2021, the next three fiscal years show an expected rise in the federal budget for the unemployed. This may indicate an expected increase in the number of people receiving unemployment welfare in the U.S. over the next few years. Correlated with this time period is an increased budget designated for defense. This increased defense budget illustrates the growing tension between the U.S., China, and Russia and a grim outlook for considerably easing tensions between these countries in the near future.
In order to more effectively combat China and Russia, particularly China, the U.S. should revise its approach to unemployment, alongside increasing the U.S. defense budget.
Focusing on improving the efficacy and productivity of American businesses, while considering changes to its approach with the unemployed and also focusing on U.S. defense, will better ensure the overwhelming success of the U.S. economy over China’s economy. This is not to say that these recommended changes are sufficient to do so, but they are arguably necessary building blocks towards success.
While many Americans have become idle, thousands of miles away there are underpaid Chinese citizens slaving over goods destined to be sent to the U.S. and other Western countries for a cheap price. Americans are exacerbating the strife of these underpaid Chinese, fearful and potentially brainwashed by the Chinese government into complacency, by paying for these cheaply made products.
Americans are unwilling to pay for products that cost more, but are made in the U.S. Some may even go as far as to say that many Americans have become too cheap to afford morals.
This is not to say that it is not understandable that Americans want products at a cheaper price, but the cost of purchasing these goods in lieu of products made in the U.S. or by American allies is higher than listed on the Chinese product. The hidden costs are the exponential harm to the Western economy and the exacerbation of the inhumane working conditions of many Chinese.
This is one reason why it can be said that many Americans are too cheap to afford morals. Moreover, if American companies were to try and compete with the low prices of Chinese goods, quality and salaries in the U.S. would likely suffer.
This is why U.S. citizens must adjust themselves to be more sparing in their purchases. Simple changes to consumer practices can benefit American businesses and the larger U.S. economy. For example, rather than pay for ten cheap items made in China, pay for five alternative items made in the U.S. or an allied country. The idea is to invest in the U.S. and countries that are friendly towards the U.S. and nonthreatening, rather than investing in malign countries.
Other than idleness and opting for cheap products, American business will be threatened by something else further down the line.
Come a few decades’ time, American businesses will see a decline in the workforce of the U.S. This is because young Americans are facing more difficulty finding entry-level work that pays a salary with which a family can survive on. Such difficulty leads Americans to continually chase the next degree, hoping for a better paying job with a higher degree.
Unfortunately, needing a higher degree to get a better paying job is probably the worst kept secret in the U.S. because more and more Americans know they need to achieve a higher educational degree in order to get a sufficient entry-level job nowadays.
This means that the entry-level workforce becomes even more competitive because now Americans need to get one degree higher than other Americans who are getting higher degrees to attain well paid jobs. All of this generally amounts to Americans getting married and having children later and later in life and having less and less children.
This decline in the U.S. population will lead to a decrease in the U.S. workforce in just a couple of decades. If this becomes the case, American companies may have to employ more individuals from overseas to compensate for the lackluster American workforce.
Of course, this is assuming in part that technology does not advance enough in a couple of decades to take on a sufficient amount of traditionally human tasks in the workforce to offset the smaller U.S. population. In addition, this prediction would also require the assumption that legal immigration will not offset the dwindling native-born population in the U.S. It is important to emphasize legal immigration because immigrants who have gone through the proper legal channels to become U.S. citizens invest in the U.S. when working here legally.?
Just one way to alleviate the issue of education inflation, which seems to be one of the primary contributing factors of population decline, is to lower the ever-increasing credentials for entry-level jobs in the U.S. This does not have to mean less high-quality work by entry-level personnel.
Simply, American companies could instead invest in more training for those employed into entry-level jobs. Rather than require individuals to have two or more years of work experience and a masters or doctorate degree, train the onboarded individuals sufficiently enough to do the job on hand. ?
Besides, many Americans complain that their degrees do not adequately prepare them for their jobs or that they do not even rely on most of the knowledge they attain from higher education.
An additional quandary that American businesses face is also linked to the U.S. educational system.
This problem lies with the individuals accepted into American universities and university-affiliated research organizations. American universities have increasingly admitted individuals from other countries, such as China, with no guarantee that these incoming students will stay to loyally work in the U.S. after graduation.
In fact, some of the students from China are essentially chaperoned by another Chinese individual to make sure that the student does not become loyal to the U.S. or indoctrinated into the American mindset.
Also, individuals from other countries accepted into U.S. university-affiliated research organizations have given trade secrets to their native countries.
The education and skills that the U.S. has equipped many of these individuals with has been used against the U.S., causing the U.S. economy and competitive U.S. innovation to suffer.
The problems discussed in this chapter are just some of the threats that the American economy faces. Identifying the threats and issues is the first step, while the second step is to act on those issues to keep the U.S. economy and American businesses safe and secure.
While recommendations were made throughout this chapter, two additional recommendations are made below.
The U.S. should consider reorienting its National Security Strategy towards a political-economic defense, i.e., making defending America and American Prosperity the next National Security Strategy.
The U.S. should also exert more effort into better formalizing the U.S. Government interagency process to manage diplomacy, informational, military and economic lines of effort against America’s competitors, adversaries and enemies.
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THOUGHT 4.? Opportunity for Competitive Advantage
Transforming American Business.
THOUGHT 4.? Opportunity for Competitive Advantage
Always a great reflection when we discuss the past and applying history to the future. The strings from centuries ago age, but they rarely disconnect. What we see now with the challenge to American hegemony is telling. The economic model where super-producers and super consumers draw raw materials from across the globe, return those minerals to their country to manufacture into products for sale across the planet and even back to the points of extraction, is a mercantilist practice from the past which lives today.
In the 19th Century, when England, Germany, France, Portugal and other European countries colonized Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific, the industrialization of Europe was fueled by raw materials and strategic minerals extracted overseas and returned to steel and textile mills back home to be turned into consumer products The exploitation of overseas locations by Europeans was a race for modernization and where competing European national agenda’s conflicted across the planet, so did the stress at home increase.
Eventually the competition overseas turned violent in Europe resulting in World War I and the destruction of Europe, not only physically, but politically.
Out of the rubble of Europe rose the Russian Communist State. The overthrow of the ruling Tsar and the destruction of the monarchy change Europe’s most massive country into a modern-day aggressor. Aggression which we still realize today and which again is challenging the European peace held firm by its balance of power.
The conclusion derived from the past and applied today is simple, the same conditions which existed prior to World War I are resident today, and are emerging to once again alter the European political, social, industrial and cultural landscape of the Continent.
The very odd derivative about history is that it does repeat and herein is where informed by the past, we can win in the future.
But what is American business? What does American business look like today? How is it classified? In general terms, small-businesses exist throughout the country and by many accounts form the majority of the business base. Small-businesses are the local purveyors. These are the manufacturers, deliverers, service providers and consultants who live and act locally.
If you are a company with a small number of employees and work within a convenient drive of your office, you are a small business, and the anchor point of American business.
If you are regionally oriented, with a multitude of satellite operations, affiliates, or offices from the main headquarters. If you provide resources, products and services to large businesses and small over a large area with a large staff, then you are a mid-sized American business.? You are the regional linkage in an American business hierarchy.
If you are a business which operates across the United States with regional offices, large corporate staffs, you deliver resources, materials, products and/or services to regional hubs to service local markets, then you are an American national business.
Wandering across the business landscape, we find businesses with interests throughout multiple nations, some with global reach who are all internationally focused. These multi-national corporations have country offices, connect to regional businesses to service local markets across the world. While they may be resident in the United States, while they may appear to be staffed and lead by Americans, they are not an American business, for they are an International Conglomerate and operate independently of United States national goals and objectives, unless those goals serve the multi-national corporation, or are the corporation’s goals purveyed by the United States government.
Asking who is in charge is always a great question with a simple answer.? Whoever controls the world’s currency is in charge. Whoever offers the best trade for products or services, they are in charge, which means that New York runs the world’s economy.
The anatomy of the corporate structure is also simple. Uptown Manhattan is where the high-end and higher end populations live. Uptown Manhattan is where the billionaires and millionaires reside. Around them are those who cater them. Midtown Manhattan is where the “I” crowd works, these are the Industrialists, the Investors, and the Influencers, they are nationally based with international derivatives. They are the transactors. Downtown is where the controllers are. This is where those who manage the money, the trade, the currency, this is where they work.? What occurs in lower Manhattan is global control. It was no accident that September 11th targeted there.? Manhattan simply controls the world.
But how American business is organized and functions is exactly what is under attack and if eroded or lost terms the eventual demise of the United States.?
As we understand the objectives of past friends, now competitors and in the near future enemies, we see that the Chinese Communist Party, (not the Chinese people, but their government).
They have a national plan, which is supplant the current international rules-based order which the United States pioneered out of Bretton Woods towards the end of World War II with theirs. Not only are they moving very deliberately to put an expeditionary military which can project power past their borders, but they are also maneuvering to control the world’s strategic minerals, replace the U.S. dollar with the Chinese currency and build a vast and expansive network to tentacle out across the world to control global markets. Simply put, Beijing looks to replace Manhattan.
Across the Atlantic, our former ally, turned Cold War adversary, then defeated opponent now by some accounts, a distant cousin, has become the aggressor again. Their sights fixed to Europe in a brilliant exploitation of the grand design of a ‘United States of Europe’, the accompanying idealism and pacification of the Continent after World War II.?
As we clearly see now, Russia is advancing towards achieving its design of a restored Russia, uniting national Russian pockets entombed in a series of post European war agreements which divided European ethnically, under measures to punish German, Austria-Hungarian and Italian aggression so the Allies can retain international integrity.
It comes as no surprise that the Russian government with the support of the Russian people has moved West. Russia has determined that their national sovereignty is at risk if Europe re-arms and points guns East, again. They see the growth of NATO as that alliance strong enough to march to Moscow, again. Finding fault with Russia’s strategy is a tough proposition.?
For centuries, Western Europe has turned East and invaded, devastated and scorched Russia. Russia sees and needs a buffer. Russia needs to trade space for time to build a counter-attack. Russia realizes that the heart of Russia when Napoleon invaded was the Russian Army, Russia realizes that the heart of Russia was Moscow when Hitler invaded, and Russia today understands that the heart of Russia is the Russian people. So how can Russia be blamed in attempting to re-unify their people who are across the eastern European region?
Hence, when we ask what Russia is doing - it is a neo-manifest destiny to unite lands once under Peter the Great. When we ask what the Chinese Communist Party is doing? It is a neo-mercantilist strategy to control the global economy. When we ask how to fight back? Then we answer with, winning the Economic War we are in today, which means out-networking our adversaries.?
It means that winning a global economic war means controlling the heart of the global, regional and local economic (infra)structures connected by a vast network which provides goods and services managed by a dominant currency.
It means that those American businesses who move into a corporate-networked relations and political-economics model and modernize shall profit. It means transformation, specifically gaining the business advantage by;
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THOUGHT 5.? The New Organizational Way
The Corporate Unity NOW Forward Model
THOUGHT 5.? The Corporate Unity NOW Forward Model
Any military commander, any military strategist knows that you win a war by organizing for combat better than your enemy. A well-organized combat force applied appropriately can defeat its adversary and seize the day. A series of defeats wins a campaign and winning campaigns wins wars. Technology, armaments, force size and composition, as well as training are other key components and a discussion follows, but first, organize to win war.
For economic warfare, to organize to win means understanding the center of gravity to do so. What is the enemy’s greatest weakness, and what is our greatest advantage? What is our enemy’s economic warfare goals and objectives, and how do we counter them, and what can we sustain in economic war, that our enemy cannot?
Apply our greatest advantage against the greatest weakness of your enemy wins the battle. Apply our greatest advantage against the enemy’s greatest weakness for a prolonged period in a specific area, does win the series of battles which form the campaign.? Finally, win the campaigns where the enemy has regionalized and you win the war.?
And in any war, determine what win is. Is it limited, mutual or total??
Will there be sharing markets or complete dominance? Are enemy product lines and service to go off line? In effect, is the determination to leave the enemy with a partial or limited capability to supply and service its markets, or is the goal the complete annihilation of their economy?? Perhaps, there is a measure in between, but the orders to industry have to be clear.?
Either allow the enemy to have some economic might which does not challenge the victor, or maim the enemy’s economic capability and capacity and force mutual dependency on the victor’s economic systems or destroy the enemy’s economy and rebuilt to be totally reliant on the victors. What are your orders?? Limited, mutual or reliant?
Limited economic war is a subset of total economic warfare. If you aim at total economic warfare and back-off objectives to limited, that is far easier to do, then expand limited warfare to total. Hence, for planning purposes, look to destroy your enemy’s economic might.
What though is economic warfare? Is it destroying by physical and cyber means another’s economy or it designed for competition? Perhaps it is out-competing your enemy? Or something else? What is Economic Warfare?
DEFINITION: Economic Warfare consists of offensive and defensive measures and means a nation takes to ensure its economic well-being.
Economic Warfare ensures national solvency through the economic line of national power.
Economic Warfare is a process which arrays corporate structure, business practices, distribution, production, manufacturing, marketing, investments, sales, and other business elements to gain control of a market share or market place.?
Economic Warfare is strategic and is a series of campaigns waged against an enemy’s ability to provide goods and services to markets.?
Economic Warfare denies an enemy’s access to consumers, raw materials, supply routes, distribution, networks, hubs and spokes, workers, business leaders, investments and financing.
Economic Warfare is as tactical as brand loyalty to your product or service, vice your enemy’s. Owning a consumer’s buying power so that it arrays with your product line and not theirs.
Economic Warfare is specific to markets, localities, regions and even globally.?
Economic Warfare: uncompromising.
With strategy and definition aside, now focus on organizing to win. But first how to define win. While touched on this before, let’s pull a principle from history and state that the definition of win is not absolute.?
During the American Civil War, President Lincoln defines win three times. The first definition of win was keeping the Border States from separating from the Union. The second definition of win was the Constitutional amendment abolishing Slavery and the third definition of win was the destruction of the Army of Northern Virginia.
These definitions were sequenced. The first designed to limit the size of the succession, the second was to eliminate legally, the basis of the Confederate cause, and the third was to eliminate armed resistance.? However, the overall objective was to rejoin the Union. Make whole these United States.
Understanding that the definition of win is sequential, but aims to a central objective, go into now, the definition of win and the overall objective.
The United States overall objective is retained world power. By doing so, guards our freedoms, ensures our solvency, protects our country and guarantees global peace. With the United States as the world’s leader, then democracy and freedom prevail.
What then are the elements of the win??
The First Element of Win keeps the Armed Forces of the United States undefeatable. As we have gone from the gold standard and silver to oil and the dollar, the guarantor of America’s economic might is the United States military. While we may have debt across the world, who can collect? If our debtors call in their loans, what is the recourse if payment is denied?? Go to war? Then if that is the outcome, an undefeatable American military insures these United States.?
Success here is demonstrated by a U.S. military’s ability to project its military power anywhere in the world, whenever we want for as long as we want, or need. The Global War on Terrorism is a classic example.? I guarantee that Osama Bin Laden never thought that we would commit to eternal war, but we did. And, he died, as well as Al Qaeda.?
Following very closely to the First win comes our Second Element which is redeveloping America’s industrial base. Quite frankly, it is a fool’s folly and wholly un-American to have exported our industrial base to China.? The “why” was quite obvious, it was the 2% affluent, those fixated on great personal well-being, which exported America’s economic muscle overseas; flagrant greed.
So, return American industry back to America, and make allowances to disperse our industrial base across the country, but also across the Americas. North, Central and South America forming a ‘Monroe-Industrial Doctrine’ becomes very lucrative in pulling resources and people-power, investment and wealth, and infrastructure and distribution to create a mega-industrial production base to dominant world, regional, national, and local markets.
Once we have our military undefeatable, our industrial base back home, we are now focused on the next element of win and this is hard.? It’s called the will to win.?
The Third Element of Win is all about mobilizing the people of the Americas, specifically the United States, to get back to work. To do so involves many steps.
Step 1; we need an America that wants to win. We need an America that believes that the best is yet to come, that we are in fact, the bright, shining city on the hill, a place where the down trodden, the poor can come and breath free. We need an America who gets up in the morning to make a better life for their children. What we need are hard-working, high-valued, honest and humble people who love freedom and do everything in their power to have it.?
We need Americans who unquestionably believe in the American Dream and will fight for it. Once we have that, the rest is easy.
Step 2 is all about dignity, respect, and being genuine.? This second step is placing the celebration of the American Brand upfront and always.? That picture of the tough, full of grit, hard-working, family-oriented and embracing American culture.
We see it in the movies, we read it in books, we see the news clips, it’s everywhere. The American patriot, the pioneer, the cowboy, the father, mother, all those pictures of Americans who are tough and loving, who love freedom.
Back in the 1980’s, when Trans World Airlines was one of America’s great airlines and had global reach and influence, a survey was conducted on why Britons flew TWA to New York, instead of British Airways, Britons loved American friendliness. This snippet illustrates the actual essence of American marketability and strength.?
Step 3 is “Out of Many, One”, the very motto of the United States. America is a melting pot. Americans are friendly, we are good people, we love freedom and fight for it. We come from everywhere and become one Nation. We are unique, the world wants that; unleash it, embody it and fight for it.?
The Fourth Element of Win is the war we need and war we win.
The war with Russia is not the war we fight. The war for economic might is the war we wage and win. The only outcome is Market Supremacy and Dependency.
If Russia has their limited geo-ethnic gains. If Russia regains land lost after Peter and Catherine, if Russia establishes/re-establishes the buffer zone against Germany.
If this happens, and while this plays out, let the United States field an unbeatable military, re-establish the industrial base back in the United States, overwhelm our adversaries with the American will to win and gain global economic prosperity.? And, by doing so, cease armed aggression and ensure national sovereignty(ies).
But how?
For the economic war we win, how do we organize? How do we array our economic power against the enemy’s center of gravity? Who is our enemy?
Is China the enemy, adversary, or competitor? They are successful in re-establishing the Silk Road. They gain and are gaining global dominance.? They occupy Africa and Latin America in a neo-mercantilist domination and strip strategic minerals to build a military to defeat ours. Their stated objective is to supplant the rules-based international order formed at Bretton Woods, with theirs.?
China contests the United States, by their own omission. This is a wake-up call for America.
To defeat China is actually easy in principle and difficult in practice.? But if America understands that by 2049, China will be the global power and the United States reduced to a shell of the greatest we enjoy, then motivation to defeat China is self-evident. The difficulty is determining how to defeat China, and part of the solution resides with their center of gravity.
What is the enemy’s greatest weakness? What is China’s greatest vulnerability? What will make China fail?
China will fail because they put China first. In Africa, Chinese are first. China brings forward their work force into Africa and take African local labor requirements. By one account, there are 10,000 Chinese businesses in Africa. They are not wholesale employers of Africans. Hence, Africans are into a retro-subordinate relationship by the Chinese, who economically exploit any African nation they gain foothold.
Africans are cautious of Chinese. They do business with them because they have to, they use perishable Chinese produced products and services, when they want to buy American, but America is not there.
America’s strength is the high quality and dependability of our goods and services. Africans joke that China paints roads. That their construction is under-quality. Buy Chinese is what you get, cheap.?
Put into the equation, our deep and genuine American character and the sell-ability of “Made in the U.S.A.” becomes undefeatable. As simple as this is, that is America’s greatest advantage. Lack of quality is China’s greatest weakness, and their greatest vulnerability is sustained poor brand loyalty. If the United States mobilizes to get America’s high-quality products and services out to a pan-global marketplace, protected by an undefeatable military pitted against China’s poor products and customer service, then America economic prosperity is assured.
The Fifth Element of Win is American Competitiveness.
QUALITY PRODUCTION + NETWORKED DISTRIBUTION????
-------------------------------------------? =? AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSUREDNESS
BINDING RELATIONSHIPS?????????????????
The Fifth Element means reinventing the American Business Model from here and tomorrow. It means restructuring how America organizes for business and returning key American Business values. It really means customer service and customer satisfaction.? Here is how the New Organizational Way reinvents Corporate America to Win.
The Corporate Unity NOW structure is centered on unbreakable business relationships. That is the center of gravity for the Unity NOW model. Customers who are eternally fixed to the American Brand. Corporations where customer service is the frontline of the business transaction. Return of the common business practice of retiring from the company I start with. Corporate leaders who have streamlined and gifted decision-making. And, a redefinition of the business cycle.
The premise of Corporate Unity NOW is a distributed/networked manage productivity of high-quality goods and services at comparable pricing. Its headquarters components are:
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP. All that is needed in a corporate headquarters is (a) Executive decision-making body with support staff, (b) relationship management, and (c) benefits and fulfillment services.
DISTRIBUTED/NETWORKED MARKETING. A mix of residential and transactional field sales and services.
CORPORATE RESIDENCY. Periodic consolidated management forums which provide; meeting space, accommodations, education forums, team building, family care and support, employee and family education and worker certification.
?BENEFITS + RELATIONSHIPS + EXECUTIVE
The Corporate Unity NOW headquarters is organized with the Executive Team, 1. Human Capital Servicing, 2. Business Intelligence and Exploitation, 3. Corporate Operations, 4. Production and Distribution Network, 5. Strategic Planning and Programs, 6. Integrated Network Management, 7. Engineering and Experimentations, 8. Finance and Investment, 9. Relationship Management and Partnerships, and 10. Marketing and Brand Loyalty.
Its functions are:
1. Provide and provision personnel, travel, health care, education, and all other services to take care of the corporation, the workers and families, and include suppliers and distributers.
2. Gather, identify and assess corporate vulnerabilities and advantages and exploit competitors’ weaknesses.
3. Manage the day-to-day operation and visualize the entire Corporate Unity NOW model workings in order to maximize efficiencies, gain economies of scale and unity of effort.
4. Development, management and improvement of the production/manufacturing base, networked distribution and supplier/distributor connect. Support and sustain the Corporate Unity NOW.
5. Plan all elements of the Unity NOW Corporation, from establishing the vision, detailing the goals and objectives of the corporation and then managing programs which enhance the corporation’s competitiveness.
6. Build, maintain and sustain an integrated ground and extraterrestrial based communications, computer, and sensing network for continuous, uninterrupted analog, digital and quantum connectivity.
7. Design and build the production capacity, Corporate Unity NOW infrastructure, housing needs, and connections. Experiment the next generations of products and services.
8. Manage, account for and report the finances and capital of the corporation. Develop and implement investment opportunities to build core costs self-sufficiencies.?
9. Develop and retain internal and external partnerships to further the core function of the corporation for long-lasting positive relationships between the corporation and the customer, as well as the supplier and distributor for production.?
10. Communicate to markets and answer demand signals for products and services, sustain brand loyalty. Get the sale and keep the customer, outcompete the competitor.
The premise of Corporate Unity NOW system is an architecture which manages the production and distribution of high-quality goods and delivery of highly-valued client services at well-perceived - fair pricing/compensation arrangements.
Its E through A system components are:
E. Companies who pre-produce or custom make elements of, or the products for those who supply and distribute to the Unity NOW Corporation.
D. Supplier and Distributor Network of the production base. These are also individuals or companies which source a variety of components to the production base or service provider.
C. Production Base where the products are made ready or assembled to ship to the customer.?
B. 1 to N Customer Servicing by marketing the product and service, selling and entering into contract for the product and service, ensuring a successful and welcomed management of the transaction and fulfilling the individual needs of the sale, ensuring customer satisfaction.
A. The world of customers and employees who use, and reuse the products and services. The point of purchase where customer satisfaction is hyper-critical. Once a sale is made, the objective to endless use.
At the hub of the Corporate Unity NOW is relationship management. The philosophy here is based on gaining and maintaining the sale. Making sure that the customer is a repeat customer. A customer will continue using the same product or service because the customer has perceived endless value of the product and service.
This means that the customer desire the product or service, believes that the pricing is appropriate for the product and service and unconsciously repurchases. This is brand loyalty. This is the epicenter of the system.
The relationship management COG is so important, it is the main effort of the Corporate Executive, Corporate Directors and entire corporate support system. Corporate headquarters focuses on relationship management first and then manages the efficiencies from A to E, ensuring timely, accurate and fulfilling delivery of high-quality/valued goods and services.
Relationship management includes positive and effective interactions with the Government and regulators, international organizations in overseas markets and non-governmental organization who operate by function, worldwide. These external system relations are essential in building space to deliver high-end/quality goods and services to the customer, unimpeded.
Unity NOW
Forward
THOUGHT 6.? The Way Ahead
Next Steps
THOUGHT 6. Next Steps
Once you get the idea of this thinking, then the next step becomes transitioning theory into practice.? What entails reinventing companies across America into a Corporate Unity NOW.? Rearrange your corporate structure into a headquarters, with Directorates 1 to 10. Look at your corporate footprint and assembly and re-form it, perform an analysis on your system’s model and go E through A, and build a product or deliver a service which has an endless user.?
Along the way, though, is the checklist:
STRATEGIC: Win the War
Map American main markets supremacy
Target American market opportunities
Identify Russian global economic ambitions
Identify Chinese global economic ambitions and infrastructure
Map out the ongoing and predicted Cyber warfront
Identify when China exceeds economic parity
Identify when China reaches military superiority
Identify United States Government departments and agencies to wage economic warfare
Identify Corporate alliances for economic war
Build a Whole of Government/Entire Nation approach to win
Reorient the United States Government’s National Security Strategy towards a political-economic defense
Create the United States Government’s National Environmental Council in the White House
Re-establish the United States Information Agency for unified U.S. national information management
Reaffirm the National Economic Council for policy to counter Chinese and Russian economic aggression
Formalize the U.S. Government Interagency process to manage diplomacy, informational, military and economic lines of effort against America’s competitors, adversaries and enemies
Transformational: Business Advantage
Mature the corporate network
Produce locally, optimally onsite
Create a corporate residence and residency
Employ hologram technology and neuro-tethering (brain-to-brain connectivity)
Revise corporate compensation to work productivity tables and cost of living reduction
Reduce time in the office, but embracing continuous interactive business relations
Redefine corporate leadership, organizational structure and the business transaction
Employ Corporate Unity NOW
Confrontation and Debatable
Return the production base to the United States
Be the exporter, not the importer
Prioritize engagement with international partners by loyalty
Foment an economic insurgency against the Chinese Communist Party
Partner with the Russian Government
Full support to Israel
Bring a return to a free Afghanistan
Strengthen German, Polish, and Japanese defensive capabilities
Prepare for an accidental start to World War III
Switch to quantum
Reduce, to unharmful levels, Chinese global pollution
Secure Europe, internally
Deep space exploration
Last Thoughts and Wrap-Up
Thank you all for connecting with us. We presented a great deal; we are challenging existing thoughts, yet we are thrilled that you had the opportunity to engage yourself in another view of geo-political economics. And, of course, we are happy to spark improvement.
We close by saying that we are not interested in defending our positions and will wait out the criticisms we know will come. We are not interested in debating what we said, but instead are interested in promoting innovation from what we said.
How the American Dream rises from the ashes of the pandemic, heals itself, and how the United States reorganizes for perpetuity is the debate to have. But more importantly, should be the focus of the Nation.
It is exceedingly clear that nation-state adversaries are at war with the United States. Painfully true that economics are the main global battlefields. Ridiculously obvious that the United States must understand that we are not impervious to decline. And, a dramatic realization of opportunity to bring back the true grit and determination of the American Dream.
Founder at New American Spring
4 个月My DEEPER take on Trump and WWIII: https://newamericanspringblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/08/trump-trouble/
Senior Multi-Skilled Test Technician
7 个月Very interesting, will give it a more thorough read. Taiwan is part of the PRC; to them it's like after defeating the Confederacy, the US allowed them to exist as a political entity and gave them Hawaii or PR
Seeking New Opportunities
7 个月Mind if I repost? This is interesting and worth sharing. Obviously, not everyone who reads it will agree (which seems to be part of your intent in posting this)
President & Chief Executive Officer
7 个月Will there be a print version?