Redrawing the Map of the Middle East

Known as the Peters Map, after Ralph Peters its producer, the map below represents a vision of the MIddle East in which virtually all the boundaries have been changed as a result of NATO military operations, aided by auxiliary forces described as “rebels”. Peters is a former military officer and intelligence expert with access to the highest levels of the US government. The map appears in a book published by Peters in 2008.

The map dovetails neatly with the plans for regime change spelled out in the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) Document. That document is a policy statement framed by the Council of Foreign Relations in 1997. The document not only calls for regime change throughout the Middle East and North Africa, but claims that a “new Pearl Harbor” would be needed to set it off. Some commentators believe that 9/11 was the New Pearl Harbor and that the War on Terror is essentially the plan of regime change being put into action.
The map above is an expanded version of the Peters Map. By passing your mouse over the map, you will see the boundaries change from old to new, giving you a more acute sense of the changes in territory involved. By moving your cursor below the map and clicking on the red instruction, you will see a superimposed map of oil resources. Note how the oil deposits would, after “regime change”, lie almost entirely within the newly formed NATO-friendly states. This is thought by some to be the main driver of the entire operation of “regime change”.
An essential military ingredient of the War on Terror is called Fourth Generation Warfare. It does not involve declarations or war between nation states nor does it involve armies facing each other en masse, as in past centuries. Instead it involves a “blurring of the lines” between civilian and military action and a reopening of tactics previously outlawed or thought too horrendous to use. The key operational factor is deception, representing an event as perpetrated by A when in fact it was perpetrated by B, giving B an excuse to attack A
Examples of Fourth Generation Warfare in the 21st Century
Here is a brief summary of the War on Terror to this point
Pseudo victim: United States
Event: 9/11
Real victim Islamic world. broadly considered
OperatIon: War on Terror initiated
Pseudo victim: NATO nations
Event: Alleged threat of “weapons of mass destruction”
Real victim: Iraq
Operation: Invasion of Iraq, replacement of government
Pseudo victim: NATO nations
Event: Lockerbie bombing blamed on Ghadaffi
Real victim: Libya
Operation: Rebellion in Libya, no fly zone, replacement of government
Pseudo victim: Israel
Event: Alleged threat of nuclear weapons
Real Victim: Iran
Operation: Pending
Pseudo victim: Syrian population
Event: alleged use of military force on own citizens
Real victim: Syria
Operation: Rebellion in Syria. ongoing with invasion immanent
More to come on this section . . .
DOWNLOADS
High resolution map of traditional (2012) borders
High resolution map of traditional (2012) borders
High resolution map of traditional (2012) borders WITH OIL deposits
High resolution map of proposed borders WITH OIL deposits
REFERENCES
Ralph Peters on Wikipedia
Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East”
Counterpoint/Disinformation References
The fallacy behind Ralph Peters’ new Middle East map
CARTOGRAPHIC DATA

All Maps have been been created by hand using Google Maps data. All boundaries are accurate to within one arc-minute.
The indicated oil bearing regions were recompiled from data displayed at the following URLs:
Middle East Map of the Future
http://www.matthieuthery.com/energy/fossil-energy/crude-oil/crude-oil-geography/middle-east/
http://www.matthieuthery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/offshore-oil-field-qatar-eau-iran.jpg
http://www.gregcroft.com/area4indexmap.ivnu
http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2012/02/it-might-not-be-hormuz-but-saudi-oil.html
http://energeopolitics.com/2010/04/09/usgs-identifies-potential-giant-oil-and-gas-fields-in-israelpalestine/
http://iv-g.livejournal.com/296018.html
http://pictorial-guide-to-energy.blogspot.com/2008/10/oil-fields-in-middle-east.html
\http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Centenary_of_the_First_Oil_Well_in_the_Middle_East/eb6bc466.aspx
http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/iraq-begins-to-open-its-oil-fields-to-foreign-companies1201/