Light bathroom reading....

http://www.d-n-i.net/dni/2009/10/21/...d-love-nsc-68/

A little shameless self-promotion. I'd appreciate any constructive feedback.

Essay primarily focuses on a way ahead for the US Government in Central Asia by dissecting flawed political-military strategic assumptions to date. It then ties this together to a new understanding of geopolitics and global challenges to generate a new grand strategy by modernizing Kennan’s writings for the 21st century.

The essay covers four main points:

1) That although GEN McChrystal’s assessment calls for one of two courses of action in Afghanistan, there is a third, more suitable course not being debated;
2) That current plans and concepts developed after 9/11 are, in fact, causing many of the national security issues we face now and will in the future;
3) Argument against the conventional wisdom that Afghanistan or wars like it are a vital national interest (as a point to formulate a subsequent US grand strategy);
4) Proposal and recommendations for a new grand strategy.


The views expressed are my own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.