I’ve just come across this outline for a recently published book by a key military strategiest. He is both critical of the current military organization (big toys, and big armies to fight the cold war) and a fan of the neo-con Whiteman’s burden philosophy of Thomas Friedman, Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington. It is quite likely that his ideas are similar to those driving the current mideast agenda.
There is no consideration in his world that, perhaps, the US should not be the policeman of the (developing) world.
Interestingly he lists a series of objectives for the Iraq occupation which are very similar to my speculations in my Original Diary.
If this is the direction that military thinking is going in then we can expect unending militarism, just with less heavy weaponry.
