Comments on: Kaplan on land, sea (and air) http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: IJ http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/#comment-380777 IJ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:10:19 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/#comment-380777 <i>All military strategies are based on bets, it is said. Is the wrong bet being made? The biggest may be that the American public will react benignly to the increasingly destructive effects on them of economic globalisation.</i> The current US administration seem at present to favour soft power, but national opinion may be swinging the other way. Hence their warning: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/04/ccustrade104.xml" rel="nofollow">Protectionism is a disdain for others</a>. National opinion can have serious international ramifications. All military strategies are based on bets, it is said. Is the wrong bet being made? The biggest may be that the American public will react benignly to the increasingly destructive effects on them of economic globalisation.

The current US administration seem at present to favour soft power, but national opinion may be swinging the other way. Hence their warning: Protectionism is a disdain for others.

National opinion can have serious international ramifications.

]]> By: IJ http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/#comment-380765 IJ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:38:29 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/#comment-380765 No doubt we are seeing the evolution of the whole US military. The US Navy's proposal is probably representative. Robert Kaplan seems to complain that the Navy's “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower” will resonate with the public and a Democratic Congress. This, he says, is a post-Iraq document, with <b>an emphasis on soft power.</b> All military strategies are based on bets, it is said. Is the wrong bet being made? The biggest may be that the American public will react benignly to the increasingly destructive effects on them of economic globalisation. No doubt we are seeing the evolution of the whole US military.

The US Navy’s proposal is probably representative. Robert Kaplan seems to complain that the Navy’s “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower” will resonate with the public and a Democratic Congress. This, he says, is a post-Iraq document, with an emphasis on soft power.

All military strategies are based on bets, it is said. Is the wrong bet being made?

The biggest may be that the American public will react benignly to the increasingly destructive effects on them of economic globalisation.

]]> By: random african http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/#comment-380758 random african Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:22:37 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/11/03/kaplan-on-land-sea-and-air/#comment-380758 "Still, human rights count, especially in such oppressive places as Sudan and Zimbabwe. " but not Sudan or Algeria ? “Still, human rights count, especially in such oppressive places as Sudan and Zimbabwe. ”

but not Sudan or Algeria ?

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