The conversion proceeds
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 1:58AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

MONOGRAPH: A New Division of Labor: Meeting America's Security Challenges Beyond Iraq, By: Andrew R. Hoehn, Adam Grissom, David Ochmanek, David A. Shlapak, Alan J. Vick, Rand, 2007

Friend of mine in the Pentagon alerted me to this RAND definition of the Leviathan/SysAdmin division of labor by services: sea + air v. ground (or blues v. greens).

Remember Schopenhauer: ridiculed, then opposed violently, then accepted as conventional wisdom.

But, of course, Afghanistan and Iraq do most of the converting.

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