U.S. Military Has No Time to Train for Big Wars; The Wounded Home Front
Busy With Afghanistan, the U.S. Military Has No Time to Train for Big Wars by David Wood at Politics Daily. BLUF: “… problems are reason for a decisive shift at the Pentagon, according to an outside bipartisan task force chartered by Congress to challenge current Defense Department planning. … said in a report issued earlier this year that Gates had “focused too greatly on the short-term” threats and not enough on big-war challenges.”
The Wounded Home Front by Robert Kaplan at The American Interest. BLUF: “The home front gropes for a way to connect with the wounded and their families. The fact that this is much harder to do than we suppose it ought to be is a particular wage of small wars—wars which we should do all in our power to henceforth avoid.”
