China-Pakistan alliance a threat, says veteran US Army Colonel Lawrence Sellin

[maximuswarrior]

Lawrence Sellin believes Pakistan's target is to make CPEC project, the flagship of China's Belt and Road Initiative, as successful, which is why Balochistan is a strategic centre of gravity.

New York: Veteran US Army Colonel, Lawrence Sellin, has expressed concerns over growing economic and military alliance between Pakistan and China. Sellin, who has served in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Africa, said that Americans need to recognise that Pakistan is not a friend of the United States, but a staunch ally of China.

"The threat is from China in the form of the Pakistani-Chinese alliance. China's aim is to dominate South Asia, first economically based on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and then militarily using its alliance with Pakistan to establish military bases on the Balochistan coast. Those bases would provide a critical link between China's military facilities in the South China Sea and its naval base in Djibouti at the entrance of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal" Sellin told ANI.

"Chinese naval and air bases on the Balochistan coast would control the vital sea lanes of the Arabian Sea and northern Indian Ocean and threaten another strategic chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz. A successful implementation of the Chinese-Pakistani plan would mean isolation of India, which is not at all advantageous to the international order," he added.

Sellin believes Pakistan's target is to make CPEC project, the flagship of China's Belt and Road Initiative, as successful, which is why Balochistan is a strategic centre of gravity.

Since the launch of multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, there has been a sudden rise in the human rights violations in Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

"The human rights violations against the Baloch are a global-scale abomination. It originates from official Pakistani state policy to suppress ethnic self-determination. Pakistan is the Yugoslavia of South Asia, a collection of ethnic areas that never significantly interacted, cobbled together after the partition of British India to form a state using religion as a basis of national identity", said the U.S. Army veteran.

"The policy for societal cohesion, largely promoted by the Pakistani military, has been opposition to India and additional "Islamization," the latter being accelerated by Zia ul Haq starting in the late 1970s and fueled by the Iranian Revolution of 1979," he added.

"Ethnic suppression has been conducted either directly by the Pakistani military and intelligence service, the ISI, or through proxies, mainly Islamic extremist groups and common criminals. The campaign of oppression has been widely used against the Baloch, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Muharjirs, Hazaras and religious minorities", said Sellin.

He strongly criticized Pakistan for targeting ethnic minorities and providing safe haven to dreaded terrorists. "The Taliban and Haqqani Network are multinational proxies of Pakistan employed to wage war against Afghanistan in order to make it a client state of Pakistan. Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba are terrorist groups given safe haven in Pakistan and used as instruments of Pakistani foreign policy".

Sellin believes that instability in Afghanistan is the creation of Pakistan. "Former chiefs of the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, and some Pakistani politicians have admitted and sometimes bragged that they created the Taliban. After the U.S. and NATO invasion of Afghanistan, most of the Taliban fled and were given safe haven in Pakistan".

"The Taliban are not solely Afghan or Pashtun. At the time of the invasion, it was reported that most of the Taliban were Pakistani nationals. Since then, the Taliban have maintained a huge support infrastructure inside Pakistan for housing, training, command and control, financing and medical treatment, for example, reportedly in the Quetta Civil Hospital and private clinics", said the Afghan war veteran.

"It has been a tough and inconclusive fight for the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan for reasons including Pakistani support for the Taliban; Pakistani control of the supply routes to Afghanistan; and the U.S. and NATO mistakenly conducting a counter insurgency operation in Afghanistan when it was actually a proxy war waged by Pakistan", said Sellin.

https://www.timesnownews.com/amp/in...eteran-us-army-colonel-lawrence-sellin/338846

 

[maximuswarrior]

The source is of course Indian, but this American Colonel is renowned for his anti-Pakistan stance. It is no secret now that the vast majority of American influential figures hold such extreme views regarding Pakistan. In fact, this is US state policy. It is too bad the Yanks are so fvcked that they simply cannot maneuver to strike Pakistan. If these Americans had it their way, I can assure you that Yugoslavia and Iraq would be a walk in the park. The Americans would live their fantasy against Pakistan and the words of the Colonel don't leave anything to imagination.

 

[YeBeWarned]

With all due respect , fcuk off

 

[maximuswarrior]

With all due respect , fcuk off

It is an eye-opener. These are the Americans that we are aiding in talks with the Taliban.

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Colonels dont get to make policies

 

[maximuswarrior]

Colonels dont get to make policies

In America they do. You are underestimating the power of Pentagon, CIA and other military institutes which dictate and shape foreign policy etc. The US military and all of its affiliates are state within a state. They control the media narrative. They engineer regime changes. They dictate wars etc.

Let me assure you. This Colonel is not speaking his mind. He is speaking the official narrative of the White House, Pentagon and the CIA. This is not a secret though. Just because some of us including influential figures in the corridors of power love to hide their heads like an ostrich doesn't mean that this isn't happening.

 

[khanmubashir]

Lawrence Sellin believes Pakistan's target is to make CPEC project, the flagship of China's Belt and Road Initiative, as successful, which is why Balochistan is a strategic centre of gravity.

New York: Veteran US Army Colonel, Lawrence Sellin, has expressed concerns over growing economic and military alliance between Pakistan and China. Sellin, who has served in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Africa, said that Americans need to recognise that Pakistan is not a friend of the United States, but a staunch ally of China.

"The threat is from China in the form of the Pakistani-Chinese alliance. China's aim is to dominate South Asia, first economically based on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and then militarily using its alliance with Pakistan to establish military bases on the Balochistan coast. Those bases would provide a critical link between China's military facilities in the South China Sea and its naval base in Djibouti at the entrance of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal" Sellin told ANI.

"Chinese naval and air bases on the Balochistan coast would control the vital sea lanes of the Arabian Sea and northern Indian Ocean and threaten another strategic chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz. A successful implementation of the Chinese-Pakistani plan would mean isolation of India, which is not at all advantageous to the international order," he added.

Sellin believes Pakistan's target is to make CPEC project, the flagship of China's Belt and Road Initiative, as successful, which is why Balochistan is a strategic centre of gravity.

Since the launch of multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, there has been a sudden rise in the human rights violations in Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

"The human rights violations against the Baloch are a global-scale abomination. It originates from official Pakistani state policy to suppress ethnic self-determination. Pakistan is the Yugoslavia of South Asia, a collection of ethnic areas that never significantly interacted, cobbled together after the partition of British India to form a state using religion as a basis of national identity", said the U.S. Army veteran.

"The policy for societal cohesion, largely promoted by the Pakistani military, has been opposition to India and additional "Islamization," the latter being accelerated by Zia ul Haq starting in the late 1970s and fueled by the Iranian Revolution of 1979," he added.

"Ethnic suppression has been conducted either directly by the Pakistani military and intelligence service, the ISI, or through proxies, mainly Islamic extremist groups and common criminals. The campaign of oppression has been widely used against the Baloch, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Muharjirs, Hazaras and religious minorities", said Sellin.

He strongly criticized Pakistan for targeting ethnic minorities and providing safe haven to dreaded terrorists. "The Taliban and Haqqani Network are multinational proxies of Pakistan employed to wage war against Afghanistan in order to make it a client state of Pakistan. Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba are terrorist groups given safe haven in Pakistan and used as instruments of Pakistani foreign policy".

Sellin believes that instability in Afghanistan is the creation of Pakistan. "Former chiefs of the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, and some Pakistani politicians have admitted and sometimes bragged that they created the Taliban. After the U.S. and NATO invasion of Afghanistan, most of the Taliban fled and were given safe haven in Pakistan".

"The Taliban are not solely Afghan or Pashtun. At the time of the invasion, it was reported that most of the Taliban were Pakistani nationals. Since then, the Taliban have maintained a huge support infrastructure inside Pakistan for housing, training, command and control, financing and medical treatment, for example, reportedly in the Quetta Civil Hospital and private clinics", said the Afghan war veteran.

"It has been a tough and inconclusive fight for the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan for reasons including Pakistani support for the Taliban; Pakistani control of the supply routes to Afghanistan; and the U.S. and NATO mistakenly conducting a counter insurgency operation in Afghanistan when it was actually a proxy war waged by Pakistan", said Sellin.

https://www.timesnownews.com/amp/in...eteran-us-army-colonel-lawrence-sellin/338846

The policy for societal cohesion, largely promoted by the Pakistani military, has been opposition to India and additional "Islamization," the latter being accelerated by Zia ul Haq starting in the late 1970s and fueled by the Iranian Revolution of 1979," he added.

From article
The bigot conveniently subtracted USA involvement in supporting radicals against Soviet
Such retired retards barking after retirement isn't something new they r out of job need a job at some think tank or media outlet or wanna sell some book or interview deals
And Islam China or pak phobia r spicy topics for there audience/ readers
But when in gov they don't bark u so much because they know they have to make deals with us to keep the world going

 

[maximuswarrior]

The policy for societal cohesion, largely promoted by the Pakistani military, has been opposition to India and additional "Islamization," the latter being accelerated by Zia ul Haq starting in the late 1970s and fueled by the Iranian Revolution of 1979," he added.

From article
The bigot conveniently subtracted USA involvement in supporting radicals against Soviet
Such retired retards barking after retirement isn't something new they r out of job need a job at some think tank or media outlet or wanna sell some book
And Islam China or pak phobia r spicy topics for there readers
But when in gov they don't bark u so much because they know they have to make deals with us to keep the world going

Of course the American Colonel is going to wash his hands and just pretend that from Cold War to the WoT it is all Pakistan's doing. That is what the US military i.e. the Pentagon and the mainstream media has been feeding the American population for decades now.

His views provide us an intimate insight into the official views of the established order. These allegations are nothing new of course, but they provide good insight nonetheless.

 

[war&peace]

just fcuk off...you piece of shit..it is our country and we will do whatever we like..

It is an eye-opener. These are the Americans that we are aiding in talks with the Taliban.

He does not represent of all of USA... he is a moron and a sell out who is towing the Indian narrative. You can even find such pieces of faecal matter in Pakistani media as well.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

but this American Colonel is renowned for his anti-Pakistan stance.

A retired US Army Colonel is of no importance other than that given to him by some Indian media.

 

[waz]

He's a complete moron and now a lackey. It's not just his bias against Pakistan which makes him sound like an incoherent idiot, but the man was incompetent at his job when he served. He has a known habit of just writing the first thing that comes to mind, something he got sacked for. By the way he was a reservist...

Consider it a new version of death by PowerPoint. The NATO command in Afghanistan has fired a staff officer who publicly criticized its interminable briefings, its over-reliance on Microsoft's slide-show program, and what he considered its crushing bureaucracy.

Army Col. Lawrence Sellin, a 61-year old reservist from New Jersey who served in Afghanistan and Iraq prior to this deployment, got the sack Thursday from his job as a staff officer at the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in Kabul. The hammer fell barely 48 hours after United Press International ran a passionate op-ed he wroteto lament that "little of substance is really done here." He tells Danger Room, "I feel quite rather alone here at the moment."

The colonel's rant called into question whether ISAF's revamped command structure, charged with coordinating the day-by-day war effort, was much more than a briefing factory. Or, as Sellin put it, "endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information."

According to Sellin, when his commanding general (whom he doesn't want to name) saw that Sellin described IJC as a blinkered bureaucracy, he informed the colonel that it was time to pack his things. "He was very polite and shook my hand and wished me luck," Sellin says.

A spokesman for the command cited the specific regulation that sealed Sellin's fate: NATO Directive (95-1); failure to clear "written or oral presentations to the media" through a designated public-affairs officer. "His comments do not reflect the reality of the work done every day at IJC," says its director of public affairs, Colonel Hans Bush. "His insights are his own, however, his duty position and responsibilities did not offer him the situational awareness needed to validate his postings to the media."

Effectively, that means enlisted men and officers are freer to speak their minds in front of embedded reporters than they are while serving on headquarters staff. Additionally troops are basically free to provide their opinions on a blog – as long as it doesn't violate operational security, and as long as they don't claim to be speaking for the Defense Department officially. Had Sellin blogged or tweeted his critique rather than published it through a wire service, maybe he'd still have his job.

Sellin says he tried to send constructive criticism up the chain before he typed out his UPI piece. He gave his superiors a briefing on "proven organizational methodologies" to streamline IJC, but it went nowhere. "It was only my rant that everyone read," he says. "My hope is that after they stop being angry at me, maybe they will take a serious look at how they operate." The irony? His briefing was a five-slide PowerPoint.


Apparently, not everyone at IJC was as gracious as Sellin's boss when the op-ed began to circulate. Sellin says that a two-star general – whom he declines to name – told him "I was a coward, unpatriotic, ignorant, petty and that he had no respect for me." Sellin gauges that lieutenant colonels and lower-ranked officers support him, as do a few colonels. "In regard to most of the other colonels," he concedes, I have marks all over me from where they have been touching me with ten-foot poles."

Sellin is going to head home to Finland, where he's worked for the past several years for an information-technology company that he asks me not to name. He doesn't wish any of his now-former colleagues in IJC any ill will. But he wonders if recently-admitted problems training the Afghan security forces – the U.S.'s ultimate ticket out of the ten-year old war – is going to yield any greater sense of urgency from IJC.

"Mine is not an indictment of people or am I questioning their intentions, just some judgments that are being made and the methods that are being used," he says. "It can be done better. We can fulfill our national security needs and get out."

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/anti-powerpoint-rant-gets-colonel-kicked-out-of-afghanistan/


Col Lawrence Sellin was sent home after generals read an opinion piece he had written revealing "little of substance" was done at the coalition's joint command in Afghanistan.

He went on to paint a picture of a bloated organisation, swollen by the vanity of commanders, where endless slide show presentations are given to brief "cognitively challenged" generals.

A spokesman for the joint command confirmed Col Sellin, an army reservist with a PhD who was on his second tour of Afghanistan, had lost his job because of his remarks.


"He's no longer working at the joint command, he has been sent back to his unit."

Col Sellin's piece, written for the news agency UPI and called "PowerPoints 'R' Us", was published on Tuesday, but appears to have been born of a long period of frustration.

Beginning by acknowledging the piece may not benefit his career, but explaining it would be therapeutic, he wrote: "I have been assigned as a staff officer to a headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months. During that time, I have not done anything productive. Fortunately little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well."

He said the international coalition's sprawling joint command, which oversees operations across Afghanistan, was probably founded "to provide some general a three-star command".

It had grown from a small group of "dedicated and intelligent officers" to "a stove-piped and bloated organisation, top-heavy in rank" where "you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a colonel".

However he reserved his deepest criticism for the daily slide show presentations junior officers must give to keep top brass updated.

"For headquarters staff, war consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information," he wrote.

Giving good presentations had become an end in itself, he said, suggesting "random motion, ad hoc processes and an in-depth knowledge of Army minutia and acronyms are also key characteristics of a successful staff officer."

Actual progress in the war had become "optional", he believed.

The cornerstone of HQ life, the commander's update, was delivered to "semi-comatose" audience of one and two-star generals where each briefer has "1 or 2 minutes to impart either information or misinformation".

"Usually they don't do either. Fortunately, none of the information provided makes an indelible impact on any of the generals."

Col Sellin said the joint command was to grow even more because "an officer, who is currently without one, needs a staff of 35 people to create a big splash before his promotion board".

Soldiers have long complained of the growing reliance on slide shows to brief people and the time dedicated to writing the presentations.

A spokesman for the Nato joint command said Col Sellin had been sacked because he had failed to clear his comments with public affairs officers.

Colonel Hans Bush, chief of public affairs said: "His comments do not reflect the reality of the work done every day at [joint command].

"His insights are his own, however, his duty position and responsibilities did not offer him the situational awareness needed to validate his postings to the media."


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...merican-colonel-sacked-after-Afghan-rant.html

Powerpoint R US lol!

 

[maximuswarrior]

just fcuk off...you piece of shit..it is our country and we will do whatever we like..


He does not represent of all of USA... he is a moron and a sell out who is towing the Indian narrative. You can even find such pieces of faecal matter in Pakistani media as well.

It is the official stance held by the vast majority of warmongers in the US. There is a reason that the White House and the US military keep pleading Pakistan to do more and accuse it of almost everything.

It is a different thing that the Americans are stuck in a catch 22 situation in Afghanistan and need Pakistan's help in various forms. That is the reason why the Americans don't shut all doors and have to rely on Pakistan.

All of the above doesn't take away the fact that both civilian and military regimes in the US blame and accuse Pakistan of the same things that the Colonel is doing.

We need to wake up and smell the coffee. The Americans are backstabbing savages. They got served in Afghanistan and I would suggest to roast them for another 17 years. The American smiles when facing you, but behind your back he is a brute savage.

 

[war&peace]

It is the official stance held by the vast majority of warmongers in the US. There is a reason that the White House and the US military keep pleading Pakistan to do more and accuse it of almost everything.

It is a different thing that the Americans are stuck in catch 22 situation I'm Afghanistan and need Pakistan's help I'm various forms. That is the reason why the Americans don't shut all doors and have to rely on Pakistan.

All of the above doesn't take away the fact that both civilian and military regimes in the US blame and accuse Pakistan of the same things that the Colonel is doing.

o itna na pareshan ho. bhai. So what's new in this? We already know and we have taken measures..they can keep crying..As long as govt of Pakistan is doing its job and protecting the national interest..do not be so worried ..take a chill pill and enjoy life... these kind of articles and statements will keep coming so just focus on your.. A simple one liner like "Fcuk off your piece of shit" should be more than sufficient to reply and move on...

 

[maximuswarrior]

o itna na pareshan ho. bhai. So what's new in this? We already know and we have taken measures..they can keep crying..As long as govt of Pakistan is doing its job and protecting the national interest..do not be so worried ..take a chill pill and enjoy life... these kind of articles and statements will keep coming so just focus on your.. A simple one liner like "Fcuk off your piece of shit" should be more than sufficient to reply and move on...

That is all I need to know. Kudos to these words.

 

[war&peace]

It is an eye-opener. These are the Americans that we are aiding in talks with the Taliban.

Naah, our eyes opened a long time ago.. He is nobody..