{"id":2062,"date":"2007-06-20T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2007-06-20T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T13:31:00","slug":"long-view-of-military-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"Long view of military strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

pointed me to an interesting link<\/a> on a guy<\/a> (Thomas Barnett<\/a>) talking about the future of the military and the political context of the military. I thought what he said made alot of sense. (And that he had an incredible sense of showmanship to go with it; Steve Jobs should be jealous.) <\/p>\n

I’m particularly curious as to the thoughts of the military and ex-military readers of my blog, particularly those who have served in Iraq and\/or Afghanistan. *points to and * Other random bleaters are, of course, welcome to join in as well. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Basically his idea is that our military is great at kicking ass, but we’re bad at helping the other guy up, and taking him out for a drink afterwards (ie, rebuilding after the war, both political and physical infrastructure, the funny term for it is all me*). He proposes a separate military branch specifically for helping the other guy up and taking him out for a drink. And give that rebuilding group some real power, prestige and authority, because that group is easily as important as the guys with the guns. He also wants to develop the international political system to make it all go. That’s a brief and crappy summary of a much more sophisticated viewpoint, but do check out the video if the idea intrigues you.<\/p>\n

* = Not the job of the Army Corps of Engineers? For some reason when I was younger I envisioned a special forces group that basically landed in the middle of nowhere behind enemy lines and tried to win over the locals through provision of aid. I thought those were the green barets. That’s neither here nor there, but it seems I was, uh, mostly in error on that one. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

pointed me to an interesting link on a guy (Thomas Barnett) talking about the future of the military and the political context of the military. I thought what he said made alot of sense. (And that he had an incredible sense of showmanship to go with it; Steve Jobs should be jealous.) I’m particularly curious … Continue reading “Long view of military strategy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}