Two from the press

First, this article quoted Tom:

ARTICLE: Special military group looks ahead to fight America's future wars, Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, August 26, 2007

Excerpt:

Can the United States afford such lopsided bills? Not for long, according to military strategist Thomas Barnett, author of "The Pentagon's New Map," one of the treatises that lay out the scenario for these asymmetrical wars that planners expect.

"The million-to-one (ratio) is unsustainable," Barnett said, although it's difficult for him or anyone else to explain how the United States might be able to end its dependency on high-tech weapons that allow it to project power without putting U.S. forces in harm's way.

Second, The Korea Times picked up yesterday's column.

Comments

[Nathan Machula]

Wow, an article with Chalmers Johnson and Tom quoted almost in agreement!

[Arherring]

I thought Tom had really explained it pretty well. We need a new doctrine to approach the Gap in a different way. Technology does not drive doctrine, doctrine drives technology. Another whiz-bang gadget is not going to mean our forces will win in the long war if they are using the same olf doctrine to fight it.

Get the new doctrine.

Drive the technology with -that-!

[Michael]

Sounds kind of like Mr Abate was missing the point. War hasn't become a video game: pay in money or pay in blood, the butcher's bill still must be payed.