President Obama’s new American defense strategy doesn’t look so new. His election-slanted Defense Strategic Guidance manifesto sounds more than a bit like Donald Rumsfeld-era chatter circa summer 2001. Aircraft, ships, smart weapons and intelligence systems? Yea, verily. Ground troops? Not so much, because we’re done with Clinton-era peacekeeping, we’ll save money (soldiers are expensive!) — and hear this, Luddites, it’s the 21st century.
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