The luxury of separating foreign and domestic threats has ended, and the Nation faces a pressing need to rediscover the geopolitical facts of life. The new environment for nuclear strategy includes the erosion of intercontinental nuclear power, basic changes to past thinking about nuclear escalation, and increased possibilities for the use of force at all levels of conflict, nuclear and nonnuclear.Ī communications and technical revolution has altered the entire context for international relations, including the spectrum of potential and actual conflict and the options for building appropriate forces for the kinds of conflict that are likely. Air National Guard/Nieko Carzis) Realities Air National Guard C-130J Hercules aircraft equipped with Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System drops line of fire retardant on Thomas Fire in hills above city of Santa Barbara, California, Decem(U.S. Reality has begun to reveal the limits that we have been reluctant to recognize. During that time, our open-ended approach to the construction and use of force has led the Nation astray and taught us some difficult lessons. The United States emerged from World War II as a superpower with the doctrinal luxury of not having to come to grips with the limits of our military power for many decades. It may take two or three decades to arrive at where we need to be, but we must start thinking about it now. concepts and values on domestic and international stages. This should prove to be a painful process because it will be forced by unpleasant realities and will involve changes to long-held and entrenched ideas about who we are and how we use military power to express U.S. We need to start thinking about a military doctrine that is appropriate to the realities the United States faces in the 21 st century. He was the President of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges from 1989 to 2005. His most recent book is An Officer’s Story: A Politico-Military Journey (AuthorHouse, 2015).
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