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Weekend Reading
November 21, 2008 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 4:58pm | 18 Comments
The three challenges confronting the US military today — the war against Islamist terrorist elements, the prospect of nuclear-armed rogue states, and the potential rise of China as a military rival — differ greatly from those confronted during the Cold War era. Nor do they resemble the threats planned for in the immediate post-Cold War era: minor powers like Iran, Iraq and North Korea that lacked weapons of mass destruction and were assumed to present challenges not all that different from Iraq during the First Gulf War. Hence the focus on waging two such conflicts in overlapping time frames that animated the Defense Department’s two major regional conflict posture sustained until the 9/11 attacks.I'm at a wedding this weekend prior to my triumphant return to East Tennessee. In my downtime this weekend, I am reading this important report (.pdf, passed along by SNLII).
For the Army, these new challenges all suggest the onset of an era of persistent, irregular conflict.
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