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During his address before the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 22nd last year, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan proclaimed that "state sovereignty, in its most basic sense, is being redefined.... A new, broader definition of national interest is needed in the new century [where] the collective interest is the national interest." Key to the "collective interest" of the international community is the need for disarmament and civilian gun control. As long as civilians and nations have the ability to defend themselves, global governance will be difficult, if not impossible, to administer.

Global gun control efforts date back to 1959, when Wall Street lawyer Grenville Clark and Professor Louis B. Sohn wrote their book, World Peace Through World Law. Clark was then vice president of the United World Federalists, a well connected group dedicated to world government. The book details a plan for a structure of a web of international law where a "world police force" would be vested with "a coercive force of overwhelming power." "This world police force," note Clark and Sohn, "would be the only military force permitted anywhere in the world after the process of national disarmament has been completed." The only small arms allowed would be those as "reasonably needed by duly licensed hunters or by duly licensed individuals for personal protection."

Such a book might not be of significance, if two years later John F. Kennedy had not implemented Clark and Sohn’s ideas in Department of State Publication 7277. Known as the Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World, the plan calls for the "disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition of their reestablishment in any form whatsoever other than those required to preserve internal order and for contributions to a United Nations Peace Force." Freedom From War was designed to be implemented over several decades, until "Stage III progressive controlled disarmament... would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force."

The plan was coauthored by John J. McCloy and Arthur H. Dean. At the time, McCloy was the chairman and Dean a director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), another powerful organization dedicated to world government. McCloy was Kennedy’s chief disarmament advisor. Not surprisingly, he was also a close associate of Grenville Clark.

To implement the plan, President Kennedy signed Public Law 87-297, creating the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. According to this law "the terms ‘arms control’ and ‘disarmament’ mean ‘the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control, reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds under international agreement to establish an effective system of international control..." [emphasis added] By, defination, rifles and pistols are included.

In the November 22, 1999 issue of the New American, Thomas R. Eddlem warns that the principles of Freedom From War have remained the official policy of the United States since 1961. Its implementation was put on the fast track by President Bush in the Gulf War, which was sanctioned by the UN as an international police action. Clinton has dramatically accelerated the process by collapsing the U.S. military, destroying its morale and spreading the remaining troops throughout the world on various UN "peace keeping missions."

Such misguided policy may have devestating consequences. Although little known to Americans, these facts are common knowledge to the international community, including Russia and China. When the Soviet KGB secretly planned the collapse of the Soviet Union, it knew the U.S. and the West were going to be pushing for disarmament in the 1990s. While we have been providing tens of billions of dollars to Russia, ostensibly to help them disarm and capitalize their industry, the KGB has been siphoning off funds to modernize and rebuild its military with technology given or stolen from the U.S. (See DTT, November, 1999).

While the U.S. military is being disassembled and is in disarray, the Russian and Chinese militaries are fully mobilized. The newly formed Russian-Chinese military axis will never have a better time to strike than it has now.