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How Badly Things Are Broken With Our Defense -- Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, Esquire
At the strategic and political levels of war, America is falling flat on its face.
Today is a pretty good day to talk about strategy, policy, civil-military relations, inter-service rivalry and the art of the possible. By chance three different articles came out today (more on those below) that bring all these points to light and show, pretty clearly, how badly things are broken. But being news articles, most of them offer nothing more than analysis about how we got here, not recommendations on how to fix anything. So here is what is on offer: If you read these three articles you will, in the space of just about half an hour, know all that you need to know to be an informed participant in our experiment in representative democracy. At least for now. (Continuing self-education is a personal responsibility.)
So first a word about strategy, because this is a good place from which to build up to an understanding of the other issues, and problems, and will help you form your own understanding of where we should go from here.
There are four levels of war: tactical, operational, strategic (military and grand), and political. Although for very prudent reasons the US military only discusses the first three, as a historian I can definitively confirm the existence of the obvious fourth.
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My Comment: An excellent summary and analysis on the state of America's defense. This is my must read post for today.
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