The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Overhauling Global Military Strategy
While discussing the pathetic display by aging time-warped Generals who disagree with General Petreaus, Dafydd channels Thomas P.M. Barnett. A great summation of Barnett's essential bottom line in his excellent "The Pentagon's New Map".
But it is what is unsaid that is germane tonight: you cannot possibly "close the gap" in the Middle East if you leave a power vaccum in Iraq for Al Qaeda and Iran to fill.
But it is what is unsaid that is germane tonight: you cannot possibly "close the gap" in the Middle East if you leave a power vaccum in Iraq for Al Qaeda and Iran to fill.
Labels: Iraq, National Security, War strategy
