U.S. Wakes Up to Threats from Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction

In 2009, I facilitated and participated in the first-ever financial war game conducted by the Pentagon. We did this in a war game facility (Codename: WALRUS) at the Top Secret Applied Physics Laboratory between Baltimore and Washington DC and close to the headquarters of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command.

I was part of the China team. I worked with a friend on the Russian team to advance a plan to acquire enormous quantities of gold, create a new currency linked to gold, and then insist that other countries pay for our exports with the new currency. The idea was to drive the dollar out of circulation for a large part of world trade and degrade the economic power of the U.S.

Many of the so-called experts in the room (including CIA, FBI, Treasury, and Fed officials, plus the usual academics) laughed at this plot and called it ridiculous, although in the end, the referees (called the White Cell) did award additional power points to Russia and reduced those of the U.S. In the 14 years since, Russia and China have increased their gold reserves by 400%, and the BRICS countries (including Russia and China) are working on new currencies and payment systems to displace the dollar in world trade.

In other words, our predictions at the war game have played out exactly as we warned the Pentagon 15 years ago. Now, it looks like the NSA is finally catching up to this reality.

In a new report, the NSA says that it recognizes the dangers of financial and economic warfare and is researching new quantum computer systems to combat Russian and Chinese attacks. Better late than never. It’s too bad the NSA and CIA didn’t listen to my colleagues and me all those years ago.

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