From John Robb at Global Guerillas :
The US national security budget is nearly $700 billion a year (much more if the total costs of Iraq/Afghanistan are thrown in), more than the rest of the world combined. Unfortunately, within that entire budget there isn’t a single research organization or think tank that is seriously studying, analyzing or synthesizing the future of warfare and terrorism. Fatally, most of the big thinkers working on the future of warfare do their critical work in their spare time, usually while working other jobs to put food on the table for their families. In sum, this deficit in imagination will soon be the critical determinant on whether the national security bureaucracy remains relevant in a rapidly changing global security environment. That relevance is the key to its future.
From Fabius Maximus :
This has been criticised as dividing insurgencies into rigid categories - black and white, not accounting for the shades of grey ...
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Some Important AFRICOMmentaryFrom: zenpundit.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 19:35:29
My schedule recently did not permit much in the way of my normal, extensive, blogsurfing that is the genesis of my regularly scheduled Recommended Reading posts. I would however, like to highlight Matt Armstrong’s recent, in depth, post on AFRICOM . Much like 7-Up, if the vision pans out, AFRICOM is to be “The Un-Combatant” Command. Sys Admin from the inception, interagency “jointness” in conception. But will that actually happen in the real world?
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more A Barnett in a China ShopFrom: zenpundit.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 08:42:29
Tom appears to have really rattled somebody’s cage at The White Wouse with his profile of CENTCOM commander Admiral Fallon in Esquire Magazine .Â
The Man Between War and Peace by Thomas P.M. Barnett
The money quote from the magazine article that probably caused political WWIII:
Last December, when the National Intelligence Estimate downgraded the immediate nuclear threat from Iran, it seemed as if Fallon’s caution was justified. But still, well-placed ob...
more MountainRunner at Democracy ProjectFrom: zenpundit.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 20:44:36
Usually, when I link to Democracy Project it is to highlight some important problem that my friend Bruce Kesler attacking head on. Today, Bruce has invited another friend, Matt Armstrong of MountainRunner , to share the spotlight in a special guest post in an area of expertise - the crisis of American public diplomacy:
U.S. Tongue-Ties Self In Talking To World
To begin with, we must accept that the romantic days of the United States Information Agency are gone. So many ...
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