From DoD Buzz:
Threats to the United States have outstripped “our intelligence, diplomatic, and investment capability,” and the Pentagon must enact a broad series of institutional changes to cope with these new, often unexpected threats according to a major study by the Defense Science Board.
The nub of the problem is that “growing social, cultural, religious, economic and technical interdependencies have made things less predictable, more unstable and more prone to unintended consequences,” the study said. The DSB study calls for the Pentagon to educate Congress about the problem and to create a new office to advise senior military leaders “of high risk potential red capabilities” and how to handle them. The new office, to be known as the Capability Assessment, Warning and Response Office, would warn senior leaders of high risks, come up with options to counter them, and recommend technological approaches, the study says.
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My Comment: The U.S. has always had a problem in confronting threats until it is too late .... that the doctrine of preemption is not a part of the philosophical mindset in Washington. The U.S. reacts to attacks, wars, and brutal conflicts bordering on genocide .... but they will not initially step in to prevent it.
Black Hawk down in Somalia, the mess of Vietnam, a history of interference in other countries during the Cold War from Grenada, Nicaragua to Angola and Ethiopia .... there is no longer any taste in Washington to mix it up in these regions.
After 9/11, President Bush followed a brief doctrine of preemption with Iraq being the first case .... but this policy quickly became politicized by the Democrats and ostracized by much of the media and the political elite. Today .... any thought of preemption is derided and ridiculed.
The threats in the world that are against are well known. But Washington and much of the American people no longer have the will to confront and fight these threats .... that our appetite to confront evil is no longer there.