{"id":2236,"date":"2007-05-17T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2007-05-17T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T16:10:00","slug":"2236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

MIL THEORY GOES MAINSTREAM<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s rather nice to see the esoteric theory topics I kick around here in conjunction with sites like The Small Wars Council<\/a><\/strong>, DNI<\/a>,<\/strong> Tom Barnett<\/strong> <\/a>and John Robb’s<\/strong> <\/a>blogs and the circle of related bloggers, are penetrating the mainstream press. Some recent examples:<\/p>\n

William Lind<\/strong> in UPI<\/a><\/p>\n

Max Boot<\/strong> citing the Small Wars Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“War without limits” by Christopher Shea<\/strong> in the Boston Globe<\/a> (hat tip to Dr.Ralph Luker<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Thomas Barnett’s frequent appearances in columns by David Ignatius<\/strong> going back several years<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a good thing. While there is a healthy tendency in our online alternative defense thinking community to disagree, at times caustically, there is a shared consensus that the current structure, strategy and appropriations process for America’s armed forces are ill-suited to the challenges facing the United States.<\/p>\n

Change is required and change will only come when the ideas that we have been batting around on blogs, discussion boards and ( in a few instances ) books, penetrates the mass media and gets into the minds of the political class and the voting public. Maximizing attention on the ideas, rather than being distracted by infighting or loose cannon comments, is the route we need to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MIL THEORY GOES MAINSTREAM It’s rather nice to see the esoteric theory topics I kick around here in conjunction with sites like The Small Wars Council, DNI, Tom Barnett and John Robb’s blogs and the circle of related bloggers, are penetrating the mainstream press. Some recent examples: William Lind in UPI Max Boot citing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,60,303,342,139,39,340,136,162,127,18,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barnett","category-dni","category-john-robb","category-max-boot","category-media","category-military","category-military-reform","category-small-wars-council","category-small-wars-journal","category-strategy","category-war","category-william-lind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}