Dan Goure's Singing My Tune.....

Dr. Dan Goure of the Lexington Institute has posted a concise criticism of our inability or unwillingness to make strategic choices.  A sample follows:

"In the past, when U.S. leaders refused to make choices they allowed the military to shrink symmetrically, by cutting every program or service a little. That approach is self-defeating. It makes no sense to keep a so-called full spectrum military but continually reduce it in size. That approach leads to a force that is incapable of meeting any threat."

While Dr. Goure and I may not agree on what approach we SHOULD take, our criticisms of the current paradigm are consistent.  Keep heading in the direction we're heading, and we'll do the things we do now, only less well, less often and in fewer places.



Bryan McGrath