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Since the wildfires (which, in my California childhood and girlhood, used to be called "forest fires") broke out last week in Los Angeles, I have been living in a kind of anguish. It is not, of course, thankfully, the material agony faced by the millions of people now in a hellscape that used to be a paradise, or the unimaginable agony faced by the tens of thousands who have lost their homes and belongings.
Mine is an intellectual misery, rather, as I watch something unfold that is clearly, to me at least, the latest Pearl Harbor in our history.
It is so clear to me that events in Los Angeles constitute an attack that is part of a war. Pearl Harbor was the second attack on our homeland since the War of 1812; 9/11 was the third; and the Battle of Los Angeles is the fourth.
In order to make that statement, I have to explain again what a war is. Since April of 2020, when Brian O'Shea first explained to me "unrestricted warfare', that Chinese Communist concept and goal, and that the CCP makes war in ways with which Westerners were unfamiliar, I have been persuaded by his argument that we are under attack unconventionally from multiple directions.
To recap: "unrestricted warfare" is a method of degrading the resources and morale of the enemy so thoroughly, bit by bit, that a shot need not be fired.
Brian gave me a dramatic image familiar to China hawks, in explaining this concept: we in the West expect to see war as an invasion or a bombing attack or to see enemy boots on the ground. We expect armies in uniforms on a battlefield, facing off.
But the goal of "unrestricted warfare" is to surround the enemy before the enemy even realizes what is happening.
Western warfare, he explained, is like chess: clearly marked kings and queens and knights squaring off directly against one another. The CCP's "unrestricted warfare," in contrast, is like the ancient Chinese game of Go, in which the goal is steadily, stealthily to surround, and thus paralyze, your opponent.
If you understand this concept, most of the last five years make sense. You are also more likely to survive what is — a war.