Center for a New American Security

Now here's a future combat system that exemplifies "balance."

UPDATE: The truth is stranger than fiction, as two readers revealed with this link.  Who comes up with this stuff?

Secretary of Defense Gates has been beating the drum of "balance" between conventional and irregular warfare as an organizing principle for quite awhile now, but despite the defense budget proposed a few months back, we'll have to wait until the QDR comes out to see how he plans to operationalize this.  In the meantime, check out a couple interesting pieces on this (aside from Krepinevich's Foreign Affairs article) to tide you over:

• Frank Hoffman's latest in Armed Forces Journal
• Tom Mahnken's blog post on Foreign Policy (link fixed)