Ten years from now, you will not recognize a map of North America
because of the significant changes in nation-state destruction and
creation that will occur after the inevitable economic collapse of the
Western world. Some of those change agents who will usher in the new
geography will resort to fourth generation warfare and guerrilla warfare
to carve the continent up. This Other New World Order has some
historical analogs that will make the potential spectator or participant
in these world shaping events better informed to deal with the
undiscovered country ahead. The Other New World Order shapes change in
the opposite direction of the apocryphal New World Order: where there
is one nation, it will create dozens or hundreds. Consolidation and
centralization will be the new enemy of the Other New World Order. In
the interest of lending historical perspective to how this will take
place, we will examine some worthies through history whose actions and
imperatives built civilization locally instead of globally.
Michael Collins (Irish: Míċeál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 –
22 August 1922), the Irish guerilla leader who was largely responsible
for removing the English from the Irish homeland after an 800 year
struggle was an extraordinary man. He was a young man whose talent
quickly propelled him to the top of the ranks in the Irish resistance
after the 1916 Easter Rising that precipitated the eventual divorce of
the United Kingdom from the island of Eire in 1922. A civil war started
in Ireland shortly after the divorce from the UK and Collins would live a
mere four months in a relatively free Ireland before he was murdered by
the Anti-Treaty IRA.
After the two Viking ages in Ireland, the Norman invasion established
the first British presence in 1169 and the struggle against the English
crown began in earnest. Seven and a half centuries would pass before
the Irish republic finally calved off the British Empire in 1922. There
is speculation on Plan Green (Germany) and Plan Kathleen [an invasion of Northern Ireland] (IRA) during WWII on the possibility
of yet another English invasion to secure the Irish against German
invasion but it is merely an historical interlude in the larger scheme
of things. The British, of course, still held the Northern Ireland
province as a fiefdom in the greater kingdom.
