If I had to find an ally in expressing the future of the USA and it's military, it would be Mr. Fujimoto.
He focuses on the Pacific, but, realizes China is seeking to prepare for war. China mimics the USA a great deal in their military model. I also believe most of the world has little to no confidence in the USA since Iraq. I don't know how anyone can expect to build relationships of any kind when there is such fear of this country.
Iraq taught the world many things, even allies learned their lessons, too. The USA was no longer reasonable and succumbed to leadership without benevolent intent. That is fairly scarey stuff when one considers the place we have globally to maintain a balance of strength and benevolence.
January 11, 2012
by LTC Kevin Fujimoto, U.S. Army War College
...The United States (click here) must also address ungoverned states, not only as breeding grounds for terrorism, but as conflicts that threaten to spread into regional instability, thereby drawing in superpowers with competing interests. Huntington proposes that the greatest source of conflict will come from what he defines as one “core” nation's involvement in a conflict between another core nation and a minor state within its immediate sphere of influence. For example, regional instability in South Asia threatens to involve combatants from the United States, India, China, and the surrounding nations. Appropriately, the United States, as a global power, must apply all elements of its national power now to address the problem of weak and failing states, which threaten to serve as the principal catalysts of future global conflicts....
...Any effort to legitimize and support a liberal world construct requires the United States to adopt a multilateral doctrine which avoids the precepts of the previous administration: “preemptive war, democratization, and U.S. primacy of unilateralism,” which have resulted in the alienation of former allies worldwide. Predominantly Muslim nations, whose citizens had previously looked to the United States as an example of representative governance, viewed the Iraq invasion as the seminal dividing action between the Western and the Islamic world. Appropriately, any future American interventions into the internal affairs of another sovereign nation must first seek to establish consensus by gaining the approval of a body representing global opinion, and must reject military unilateralism as a threat to that governing body's legitimacy....
He focuses on the Pacific, but, realizes China is seeking to prepare for war. China mimics the USA a great deal in their military model. I also believe most of the world has little to no confidence in the USA since Iraq. I don't know how anyone can expect to build relationships of any kind when there is such fear of this country.
Iraq taught the world many things, even allies learned their lessons, too. The USA was no longer reasonable and succumbed to leadership without benevolent intent. That is fairly scarey stuff when one considers the place we have globally to maintain a balance of strength and benevolence.
January 11, 2012
by LTC Kevin Fujimoto, U.S. Army War College
...The United States (click here) must also address ungoverned states, not only as breeding grounds for terrorism, but as conflicts that threaten to spread into regional instability, thereby drawing in superpowers with competing interests. Huntington proposes that the greatest source of conflict will come from what he defines as one “core” nation's involvement in a conflict between another core nation and a minor state within its immediate sphere of influence. For example, regional instability in South Asia threatens to involve combatants from the United States, India, China, and the surrounding nations. Appropriately, the United States, as a global power, must apply all elements of its national power now to address the problem of weak and failing states, which threaten to serve as the principal catalysts of future global conflicts....
...Any effort to legitimize and support a liberal world construct requires the United States to adopt a multilateral doctrine which avoids the precepts of the previous administration: “preemptive war, democratization, and U.S. primacy of unilateralism,” which have resulted in the alienation of former allies worldwide. Predominantly Muslim nations, whose citizens had previously looked to the United States as an example of representative governance, viewed the Iraq invasion as the seminal dividing action between the Western and the Islamic world. Appropriately, any future American interventions into the internal affairs of another sovereign nation must first seek to establish consensus by gaining the approval of a body representing global opinion, and must reject military unilateralism as a threat to that governing body's legitimacy....
