Is Invisible enemy a concocted & misleading story as usual?

Is Invisible enemy a concocted & misleading story as usual?

Today a news item appeared in Urdu press regarding a new invisible organization of terrorists in FATA, Ahrar Ul-Hind. After some days we will read columns, research articles etc either in favour or against it. Yet it reminds me that era of visible enemy (Cold war between US and USSR) has been ended but it gives birth of invisible enemies. Internationally, Al-Qaida, Regionally Talibans and Baloch Republican Army and locally Mohajar Republican Army and many more religio-sectarian groups are included in the list. No one knew about their organizations exactly, no one pinpoint all sources of their funds, no one identifies organizational structures yet we have plenty of people who are either against them or in support. More often, it seems that supporters and opponents of these groups are part of a same drama.  

We are living in the world of cyber intelligence yet world fails to deconstruct organizational structures & behind the scene people regarding 9/11, 7/7, 26/11 etc. Same is here in Pakistan where even Balochs don’t know who are BRA, what are its plans? What are its sources of funding?

For the understanding we call them Non-State Actors and if someone gathered a selection of news published in last 10 years in numerous international and national newspapers or released at radio or TV we can print volumes of books. Big powers usually blame small countries for protection of their Non-State Actors and vise-versa.  

Threat perception in presence of Non State Actors is far greater & deeper than communists. Some people suggest that cure for this new disease is smart and digital intelligence. From 9/11 till today the world fails to reduce that threat.  Billions are being spent in that campaign and many countries including the US are using extra judicial and anti-sovereign methods to curb it. Although, from last 5 decades there is a shifting of Enemies & curbing methods yet   old cold war hot points remains same and fighting is still going on either in Pak-Afghan borders or in middle east.

It is 2014. Hundred years back world witnessed a war against Germans (as said by Kissinger in On china) and emergence of many Nation States on the debris of Ottomans, Germans and Austro-Hungarians. Britain and France divided the world as leaders yet US escaped smartly under Wilson’s neutrality. They entered in a war in late 1930s again but US with lend & Lease weapons check mate all others.

But 2014 is a changed world. There is a United Nation Forum, much stronger than League of Nations.  Transnational companies and vibrant media (including social media) are also there. Unlike Britain of 1930s, US have an eye on rising China in the form of collaboration yet in this changed world old policies needs little attention too. Transnational capital, vibrant media and digitalization needs more avenues and removal of hot points. Presence of buffer zones and cold wars are notions of past now.

Resonance of porous borders and removal of hide outs for non-state actors is gaining attention in new scholarship under globalization perspective yet the flipside is presence of huge money involved in the informal trade. Its beneficiaries are transnational as well.

Will construction of invisible enemy helpful in dealing with diverse but contradictory issues? What will be the result when subservient or competitive states too follow that theory? Ride of globalization is ready yet no one knew who will be on the back of horse.