evolution

Here is a quick overview of the book previously cited on Evolution, “The Pentagon’s New Map.” In essence the book calls for a realignment of the Pentagon to face the new trend in combat and the new position that American forces find themselves in.

The American military is still based in a Cold War type strategy of being able to face one big opponent, this means China most likely today. The Pentagon has for most of the 90’s stated that its goal was to be able to fight to large scale conflicts in different areas of the world at the same time. While they were attempting to realize this, they continued to buy weapon systems for the big one. While this was going on, the military in the 90’s was being hauled all over creation fighting lesser includeds in “operations other than war”.

What the author suggests is that the American military start to divide itself based on use of the force. One force to be a major war fighting force, because the US military can pound any country at will. Iraq took six weeks and the Marines driving down the streets really upset some of those folks. And the other force would be to wage the peace, which as we all know the Pentagon isn’t very good at. But as the author suggests, we could be if we tried.

As you can imagine the book goes into much detail about historical nature of why things are like they are and strategic plans he suggests for the military. I found it a very interesting read and concur with most of his ideas. My suggestion is to pick it up.