From: Monte Davis 

John Cuccia  wrote:

>According to Max Boot, the Bushies are still not predicting it.  Their
>defense budget is very heavy on weapons for conventional warfare and
>light on things needed for fighting assymetrical conflicts

Thomas P. M. Barnett, one of the reigning pop geostrategists (sometimes
brilliant, sometimes glib) has an elaborate analysis of the Pentagon's
internal competition between

Leviathan, the weapons-systems-heavy legacy force, now hawking (as it were)
the Ominous Rise of China

and

SysAdmin, the much lighter but manpower-intensive force, with police,
political, infrastructure, civic, language and management skills, needed to
put the pieces back together after Leviathan -- or ideally, to forestall
the need for Leviathan. Its job might be called "nation-building"
if that weren't anathema to the Bush--

No, wait, nation-building is *in* with them now, right? Or all except for
Iran and North Korea on alternate Wednesdays? It's so confusing.

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