{"id":2962,"date":"2008-12-20T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2008-12-20T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:07:19","slug":"how-about-an-assistant-secdef-for-irregular-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"How About an Assistant SecDef for Irregular Warfare ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Real change requires budgets, bureaucratic platforms and visionary leaders who can be both champion and evangelist. Having successfully lobbied for the retention of Secretary Gates<\/strong>, the small wars<\/a>\/COIN<\/a>\/military reform<\/a>\/strategic<\/a> security<\/a>\u00a0community should capitalize on the logical political momentum and not be afraid to ask for the moon. This<\/a> and many other things.<\/p>\n

The United States and the world\u00a0are at the kind of crystallizing flux point – where paradigm shifts have been recognized but the policy responses have not been decided – that comes once in a half century or more. Many things are fluid right now in different domains\u00a0that were once regarded as certainties. Time to push while doors and minds are open.<\/p>\n

People, like Secretary Gates,\u00a0who “get it” need to be put in critical positions ASAP. Broadly speaking, what gets decided in the next 6 months may impact all of us for the next 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real change requires budgets, bureaucratic platforms and visionary leaders who can be both champion and evangelist. Having successfully lobbied for the retention of Secretary Gates, the small wars\/COIN\/military reform\/strategic security\u00a0community should capitalize on the logical political momentum and not be afraid to ask for the moon. This and many other things. The United States and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,361,20,126,304,87,37,425,78,199,336,424,39,340,270,372,183,187,104,11,127,211,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-america","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-defense","category-foreign-policy","category-futurism","category-government","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-john-nagl","category-military","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-obama","category-politics","category-reform","category-state-building","category-strategy","category-terrorism","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}