The coming storm

“Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America” was originally published in 1996. The author, Thomas W Chittum, is a Vietnam veteran who later served as a mercenary in Rhodesia and Croatia. He is probably a so-called White nationalist.

“Civil War Two” is a pessimistic book, in which Chittum predicts the violent breakup of the United States at some point during the 21st century. Economic globalization, attempts to impose One World Government and destruction of working class jobs are some of the reasons (he doesn't mention peak oil or climate change). Above all, however, Chittum sees ethnic conflict as the driving force behind the coming mass slaughter. He advises Whites to leave the South and Southwest, since these areas will be taken over by Blacks and Hispanics, respectively. The Whites will hold on to the Northern parts of the United States. (Black inner cities will presumably be wiped out.) Moving to the almost all-White Pacific Northwest is seen as a good option. One chapter discusses the European and post-Soviet theatre, and reaches the disturbing conclusion that multiethnic states are usually unstable. So are multiethnic empires. America will fare no better.

Chittum doesn't believe that the federal military will be strong enough to hold on to the entire territory of the United States. Rather, both the military and the police will fracture along ethnic lines. The next civil war will be mostly fought by armed gangs, ethnic militia and guerilla formations, rather than by conventional armies. This explains Chittum's pessimism. Thus, Hispanics will be at a decided advantage in the Southwest, where they will eventually become a majority population. Their areas border Mexico, a friendly nation which could send them aid. Chittum is less sure about the Blacks, whom he sees as dependent on federal aid and patronage, making them vulnerable in the event of a government collapse. Nor do Blacks have an obvious foreign ally. While Black majority areas in the Deep South could form militias and hold out, the Black inner cities in the North can easily be cut off from food, water and other supplies, and are therefore vulnerable to sieges by White militias.

Some of the harbingers of Civil War II discussed in the book have already taken place, or have a strong resemblance to such developments. Thus, Chittum predicts war, revolution and chaos in Mexico as a prelude to a Hispanic reconquista of California, Texas and other Southwestern states. He predicts the rise of armed mercenary forces operating above the law (think Blackwater), attempts by the federal government to restrict gun ownership (think Obama) and the appearance of armed ethnic militias facing each other on American streets (almost but not quite like BLM and the Oath Keepers in Ferguson). Other developments haven't taken place (yet?), such as street gangs entering politics, open refusals of Hispanic police officers to enforce immigration laws, or ethnically based political parties scoring major successes at the polls. Some intriguing options aren't discussed by the author at all, such as Russia or China fomenting “color revolutions” or separatism in the United States. The threat of Muslim terrorism is mentioned mostly in passing. Still, despite being 20 years old, “Civil War Two” sounds more realistic today than it did back in 1996, when the United States á la Clinton looked more or less invulnerable…

I don't share the author's right-wing extremist political perspective, but I do share some of his fears. For that reason, I will give his work three stars.