The email's are coming in: "sound familiar?"

Thanks to each of you who have sent email. `critt

"Is There a Doctrine in the House?," New York Times Op-Ed, By Richard N. Haas, November 8, 2005

And, yes, it sounds familiar.

The goals are universal inclusiveness and global peace. As fantastic as those goals might seem in the early years of a global war on terrorism, they speak to a future worth creating, and so I have made the enunciation of this strategy my lifeís work. Readers throughout the U.S. defense establishment, as well as those serving in militaries the world over, made clear in their responses to the first book that they desired more than an accurate description of todayís security environment and a grand strategy for directing its ultimate improvement. They wanted a description of the journey. They wanted an enunciation of the crucial tasks ahead: the rule sets to be forged, the institutions to be built, the peace to be won.

This second volume delivers them.

Tom's in Berlin today. Tomorrow, as keynote speaker of the day, he delivers the brief to Allied Command Transformation.

Welcome to NATO.