Is the World Facing A Strategic Inflection Point? (A Commentary)

U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listens during the Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lecture series in London, Nov. 28, 2011. The lecture honors Cramphorn, who was chief constable of West Yorkshire Police from Sept. 2002 to Nov. 2006. DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen

World Faces Strategic Inflection Point, Dempsey Says -- US Department of Defense

LONDON, Nov. 28, 2011 – The world may be facing a strategic inflection point as important as the one facing Allied leaders in World War II, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today.

In delivering the Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lecture at the Policy Exchange, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey noted that today marks the anniversary of the Tehran Conference in 1943 among President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.

“The three leaders met because they sensed they had arrived – or were soon to arrive – at what they described as a strategic inflection point,” Dempsey said. They agreed that the Western allies would open a second front in 1944. The invasion of Normandy not only helped to win the war, but set the geopolitical boundaries between free and communist in the post-war years.

“I’d suggest that we — and I do mean we — are at or nearing another of those strategic inflection points in our own time,” the chairman said.

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My Comment: With the world's financial/debt crisis impacting all 4 corners on the earth, Arab spring, rise of China, the withdrawal of the U.S. from most of the world's hot spots .... yup .... I am also having the impression that we are at some "inflection point".