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About This Document: Third, our post-collapse foreign policy will be that recommended by Sen. Robert A. Taft. American armies will no longer be spreading "democracy" in the Hindu Kush, nor along the banks of the Euphrates. Our defense budget need only be adequate for defending our territory and citizens.Fifth, our armed services will be reoriented toward the threat posed by Fourth-Generation war, war waged by non-state entities. We will neither plan nor structure our forces for war with other states, although we will retain a residual capability for defensive state vs. state warfare, especially at sea and in our nuclear deterrent. We will avoid land and air war against other states as a matter of grand strategy. In such conflicts, the losing state is likely to disintegrate, creating yet another fertile field for Fourth Generation entities. That is a greater threat than any posed by another state.Ninth, all new equipment will be procured off-the-shelf, with competitors evaluated in rigorous fly-offs and shoot-offs designed to mimic combat conditions as closely as possible. At present, the services come up with "wish lists" for all the characteristics they want a new piece of equipment to have, then find someone to build it at enormous cost. Instead, they will buy new ships, tanks, and planes the way you and I buy cars, selecting from what is available. The competitions would be open to all the world; winners, if foreign, would have to build here under license.

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Tags: American Conservative, Oct 2011, Reshaping the Pentagon, Lind, William S, Commentary, National security, Defense spending, Foreign policy, Pentagon-Washington DC, 928110

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