An Asymmetric World War

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Asymmetric warfare is a very real threat to the West.

Think about the economic damaged the US suffered when several planes where used to attack buildings in New York and Washington D.C. The 9/11 attacks nearly sent the US into a depression.

Time has made people forget, even though it nearly collapsed our economy.

Another danger that asymmetric warfare presents is that the more advanced civilization may not be aware of its danger at the hands of a lesser enemy civilization until after a catastrophic attack, and even then, it is easily lulled into complacency because it has contempt for its less civilized enemies.

Another attack on the scale of 9/11 would knock us for another economic downturn, and anything after that, could well push us into the abyss.

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‘We are in the midst of a third World War,’ former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy told weekly newspaper Expresso.

‘The world does not understand. A person walks through the streets of Tel Aviv, Barcelona or Buenos Aires and doesn’t get the sense that there is a war going on,’ said Halevy who headed Mossad between 1998 and 2003.

‘During World War I and II the entire world felt there was a war. Today no one is conscious of it. From time to time there is a terrorist attack in Madrid, London and New York and then everything stays the same.’

Violence by Islamic militants has already disrupted international travel and trade just as in the previous two world conflicts, he said.

Halevy, who was raised in war-time London, predicted it would take at least 25 years before the battle against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is won and during this time a nuclear strike by Islamic militants was likely.

‘It doesn’t have to be something very sophisticated, It doesn’t have to be the latest nuclear technology, it can be something simple like a dirty bomb which instead of killing millions only kills tens of thousands,’ he said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3357552%2C00.html