The Atlantic – Outstanding article by Robert Kaplan. The Middle East is just a blip. The American military contest with China in the Pacific will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was.
Daily Archives: May 19, 2005
Operations Other Than War – A Quiet Transformation
Washington Post – As the United States was struggling with the postwar reconstruction of Iraq, the historian Niall Ferguson published a book arguing that America needed the modern equivalent of the old British Colonial Office to build political stability in far-flung places. The U.S. military was good at breaking things, he suggested in “Colossus,” but not so good at putting them back together. A look at the Defense Science Board’s study titled “Transition to and from Hostilities,” a blueprint for changes across the government that would give the United States the nation-building capability it has too often lacked in Iraq.
The full report is here: Transition to and from Hostilities (PDF format)
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