US Army Blueprint For World War III

Here is a disheartening essay from the World Socialist Web Site:

With US politicians and the American media engaged in an increasingly acrimonious debate over the strategy guiding the latest US war in the Middle East, the United States Army has unveiled a new document entitled the Army Operating Concept (AOC), which provides a “vision of future armed conflict” that has the most ominous implications. It is the latest in a series of documents in which the Pentagon has elaborated the underlying strategy of preventive war that was unveiled in 1992—that is, the use of war as a means of destroying potential geopolitical and economic rivals before they acquire sufficient power to block American domination of the globe.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/14/pers-o14.html

What in G-d's name are these people doing? Isn't the Army supposed to be under civilian control?

If they still are, who in Congress or the Executive Branch authorized this crap?

If they are no longer under civilian control, does this confirm that a military coup has taken place in the US?

If you want to read the Army's rationale for this, go here:

http://www.tradoc.army.mil/tpubs/pams/tp525-3-1.pdf

As far as I am concerned, this confirms what MG Smedley Butler claimed:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.