Great Powers by Thomas P.M. Barnett

Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Iraq is ours. Get used to hearing that, because that’s the strategic outlook of the generation of Army and Marine Corps officers already forged by the first seven years of this long war against violent extremists. It is not your father’s military, because Iraq is not Vietnam.

THE UNDENIABLE TRAJECTORY: THE MISEDUCATION OF COLIN POWELL

George Kennan, father of America’s Cold War grand strategy of containment, spent a year as academic administrator at the National War College in Washington, D.C., following World War II, and the experience unnerved him. The mindset of the officers struck him as wholly incongruous with the challenges of the Cold War that lay ahead—a decades-long war of discipline. As he put it:

The precedents of our Civil War, of the war with Spain, and of our participation in the two world wars of this century, had created not only in the minds of our soldiers and sailors but in the minds of many of our people an unspoken assumption that the normal objective of warfare was the total destruction of the enemy’s ability and will to resist and his unconditional capitulation. The rest, it was always assumed, was easy. This sort of victory placed you in the position to command total obedience on the part of the defeated adversary; it thus opened the way to the unhindered realization of your political objectives, whatever they might be.

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