Fall of the Arab Spring: From Revolution to Destruction

Click here to access article which consists of "Excerpts from the introduction of Christopher L. Brennan's recently released Book" posted on Global Research.

...the West’s ongoing involvement in the “Arab Spring” is part of a larger offensive to maintain the status quo of Western and Israeli hegemony. This was done—not through the crude and direct means of the Bush II regime—but more indirectly and via a sustained synergy of hard and soft power: so-called ‘smart power.’ This was supplemented and spearheaded through the techniques of the ‘color revolution.’ Thus, although a new cadre emerged with the onset of the Obama regime, the status quo imperative to secure Israel remained, and Obama administration introduced new techniques of projecting power. Whereas the second Bush administration was blunt and bellicose, the Obama regime acted more indirectly and surreptitiously, often relying on local proxies and ambitious regional powers such as Qatar and Turkey. This approach can be aptly labeled ‘imperialism on the cheap.’ It has been the defining foreign policy strategy of the Obama presidency.

Based on these excerpts, it appears that Brennan's analysis of Empire's policies, both hard and soft, corresponds well with a book I am now reading entitled Force Multipliers by M. Forte (see this post). The latter book also examines these imperial strategies, but Forte's focus is on the pseudo-scientific language that current imperial directors use to refer to them.