ARTICLE: Pentagon Rethinking Old Doctrine on 2 Wars, By THOM SHANKER, New York Times, March 14, 2009

Now we are getting to the core doctrinal change: the force-sizing rationales that have dominated our thinking since Cold War's end.

As soon as the Pentagon admits to the need to balance the here-and-now conflicts with hypothetical future ones, some serious rebalancing between the small wars and big-wars force structures is possible.

(Thanks: Dan Hare)