Nagl is a serious visionary. Well worth the read. Further logical evolution toward the SysAdmin force and function.
Iraq is the "end of American empire" to the hysterics and "the worst foreign policy disaster ever" to the academics.
To clued-in professionals, however, it's just the logical pivot we've been waiting on. None expected it would be easy. Indeed, the pain quotient is what drives the change.
In the end, the trigger matters little, the response is everything.
If you want to engage in this sort of stuff, measure your time in decades, not news cycles.
I know, I know. Everything changes so much "faster" today.
Run with that one if it makes you feel better or more in control, but eschew if you want to retain any clarity of vision.
Thanks to Bill Millan for sending this.