| redeployment
review of american forces 
Highly recommended.
Concise, and with maps.
“Three main factors are driving the review. The first is the
emergence of new and unpredictable dangers—one of them manifest
in Madrid last week. The Pentagon still worries about China and North
Korea; about an India-Pakistan conflagration; and about the security
of the Gulf. But alongside these concerns are the unknown unknowns of
international terrorism, and an arc of post-cold-war instability that
stretches from the Balkans to the Caucasus and around the Asian shore.”
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“The second important factor is technology. Jobs such as surveillance
and reconnaissance can increasingly be done from America itself (and
from space). The lighter ground forces that America's army is hoping
to field soon should be more easily deployable than today's tanks. The
air force can do ever more damage with ever fewer planes. Enemy technology
is also a consideration: adversaries may in future be more able and
willing to attack American bases in volatile places with missiles and
WMD, making those bases more vulnerable and more expensive to maintain.”
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