Defense and the National Interest

On the occasion of his 150,000th page view and 1,500th comment.
I would like to point out that at the time we moved him off DNI and over to his own blog, I was the only member of the team who had no doubts whatsoever about his impending success.

[Significantly revised at 6 pm EDST, on March 12th]
Fabius Maximus, in stark contrast to his nickname “Cunctator” (Delayer), takes the initiative:
When non-T conflicts become struggles for control of large geographic areas (not neighborhoods) AND involve substantial use of force, we call them 4GW’s. In the words of Martin van Creveld (private communication) 4GW is [...]

A new generation?
When Bill Lind, Keith Nightengale, John Schmitt, Joseph Sutton, and GI Wilson published the paper that introduced the term “fourth generation warfare,” they were speculating:
Is it not about time for a fourth generation to appear? If so, what might it look like?
They posed two broad alternatives, a technology-driven fourth generation (as was the [...]

by Dag von Lubitz, Ph.D., M.D. and Chairman of the Board of MedSmart

Original post by Fabius Maximus
Reply by Ed Beakley of Project White Horse

To: Fabius Maximus

We are experiencing a change in the fundamental structure of the global economic regime.
If you’re starting to become concerned about what’s going on in the financial world, check out Fabius Maximus’s frame of reference.

Fabius Maximus stakes out an island of sanity within this ocean of fantasy. Unless you subscribe to the abiogenic (non-fossil) theory of petroleum generation, oil production in the not-too-distant future will “peak” and thereafter begin to decline. Will this trigger a global economic catastrophe and increase the likelihood of large-scale conflict?
It sure could, [...]