A Few More Details: 

During my years  in Iraq, I supervised the work of approximately 2,200 Iraqi laborers for about two years.   In addition to speaking English and German, I  also speak the Iraqi  language fluently.  

Did you notice that in 1991, Saddam's air force never got off the ground.   I'll tell you why they never flew.   I'll include in my book a description of how, with an incredible simple technique, I grounded the entire Iraqi Air Force.   Actually, I didn't do the grounding.   I instructed General Schwarzkopf on how to do it.  

During the years I worked in Iraq, (ten years prior to Desert Storm) one of my jobs was dealing with Iraqi thieves,  gang leaders,  and smugglers.   When they stole our company's equipment, my job was to get  it back.   As just one example, I invite you to read the page about: 

How I stole back my own company car 

from in front of Yasir Arafat's PLO office in Beirut, Lebanon.  

In the Moment Improvising:

When the American military trucks and tanks arrived in the Middle East, they were completely unprepared to deal with the incredibly dusty conditions.   They had to drive very slowly in order for the engines not to be overwhelmed by the dust.   Even at slow speeds the engines could never go more than a single day without the air filters being cleaned out.   

On the page titled:   In the Moment Improvising   I'll explain how I solved this problem and got the trucks rolling again.

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Profits First:

The beliefs, the attitudes, and the activities that place profit ahead of everything else are at the core of the Middle East problems (and every other human problem as well).    For example, it was the lust for money that, in the 1950's,  deposed the budding democracy in Iran and replaced it with  a fascist dictatorship -- a fascist dictatorship that, over time, has evolved into the disaster that we have there today.  

As another example, the entire fiasco that has gone on in Iraq for the past several years could have been and should have been solved and resolved in 1991.   It was not resolved for one reason and one reason only -- Money.    One cannot sell military hardware without an enemy.   Saddam Hussein was intentionally  left in power because he was good for business.    

The Gulf War:

As I sat in front of my TV and watched the start of the 1991 Gulf War (Desert Storm) I had no idea that I would play a key role in that conflict.   I said to my wife, who was not really interested in military tactics, this is an incredible opportunity to eliminate Saddam Hussein without even a single American soldier firing a shot.   My mind went back to my special forces training in the German military.    I said to her,  if Patton or Rommel were in charge, they would easily end this conflict in a matter of a few days.    She listened patiently as I explained the divide and conquer scenario --  the headless army strategy.   

Saddam had made, and at this point, I believed he had lost, an incredible costly gamble.   He had seriously sacrificed military strategy in the belief that he'd win by a political strategy.   He expected the world to sit back and simply watch as he absconded with Kuwait and all its oil and other riches.  His excuse was that prior to the discovery of oil, Kuwait was part of Iraq.  In his mind, he was simply taking back what belonged to him.   

When the Americans called his bluff, he should have immediately withdrawn his troops, but he didn't.   He was soon facing what, for him, was  immanent disaster.  He was like mouse in the mouth of a mountain lion.    For the American military, this was an ideal set up --  no brainer.    Without "giving away the store,"  there was simply no way for the Americans to lose.   

I was glued to the TV as the reports came in about what was happening in Iraq.   Would military strategy put and end to Hussein, or would  this be just another military farce and still more political grandstanding?  Unfortunately, the Americans did what they have done time and time again.  They went after the symptoms and ignored the root cause.  The cause was in Baghdad.   The cause was a remake of Hitler and Stalin in the form of Saddam Hussein.   The symptoms were the Iraqi troops sent south to take over Kuwait.    

The Winning Strategy:    

By simply deploying the American troops in an east-west line across Iraq, Saddam could be completely cut off from most of his army which was either in southern Iraq or in Kuwait.    By then surrounding Baghdad, he could be completely cut off from any military not deployed in Baghdad, itself.    The Americans would then have the enemy divided into three separate groups, and the Iraqi military would be a headless army.   

All that would then  be necessary to complete this strategy would be to invite the military leaders who were outside of Baghdad to bring their soldier to Baghdad and depose Saddam Hussein.   They could then clean up the Bath party and transform Iraqi politics  into a decent government.   The Americans would provide air support and any other logistics necessary to get rid of Hussein.    Facing imminent defeat, many of Saddam's elite guard stationed in Baghdad would likely abandon their leader.   All this could be accomplished in very short order with minimal violence, minimal cost, minimum destruction, and very few casualties.   

The Loser's Strategy:

As the American military headed toward southern Iraq, I knew immediately that Desert Storm was nothing more than another version of the same old losing strategy -- treat (attack) the symptoms, and ignore the causes.   And so today, you and I , and the entire world are paying the long-term price for the short-term profit of those who already had more money than the king Midas.   

Most of the decision makers of those days were fairly old men in 1991 and many of them are dead today, but the price for their stupidity is still being paid today.   Will we ever learn.   Let me repeat my offer:   

If you choose to invite me to guide your generals like I did for General Schwarzkopf, I can show you  how to end the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan in six to nine months.   

I'll show you how to end both roadside bombings and suicide bombings.   I'll use my expertise, my knowledge of middle eastern ways of life, and my intuitive ability to guide your generals in ways that will actually work -- in ways that do not use traditional or even non-traditional military tactics.  

But don't believe me.   Make me prove it.     Contact Me

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