REPORT: A New Division of Labor: Meeting America's Security Challenges Beyond Iraq, RAND, May 17, 2007

The Leviathan-SysAdmin breakdown between the power-projecting Air Force and Navy and the boots-on-the-ground Army and Marines is both inevitable and years in the making.

It's just the way it's going to be, as this RAND report argues.

The SOF segment is always tricky: the civil affairs stuff and mil-mil is very SysAdmin, but the real trigger-pullers of SOF (and we're talking dozens, not hundreds) will be very Leviathan like in their application, as we saw recently in Somalia.

You can call that stability ops if you want, but it's just targeted killing or warfare fought strictly on the level of individuals.