So, let's pause a moment as the New Year begins and take stock of ourselves as what we truly are: the pre-eminent war-making machine on planet Earth. Let's peer into the future, and consider just what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010. Here are 10 questions, the answers to which might offer reasonable hints as to just how much US war efforts are likely to intensify in the Greater Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia, in the year to come.
Don't be put off by the harsh wording of some of the questions. They are asking good ones, and the answers they discuss at the link above are well-thought-out and interesting.
1. How busted will the largest defense budget in history be in 2010?
2. Will the US Air Force be the final piece in the Afghan surge?
3. How big will the American presence in Pakistan be as 2010 ends?
4. How much smaller will the American presence in Iraq be?
5. What will the year mean for the Pentagon's base-building plans in war zones?
6. Will the US and Israel thwart the Iranian insurgency?
7. Will Yemen become a fourth front?
8. How brutal will the American way of war be in 2010?
9. Where will the drones go in 2010?
10. What will surprise us in 2010?
By: Brant
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1. Busted only in shorting real combat power, while going long on lots of not-really-defense items.
2. No, it doesn't take them nearly as long as it takes Army brigades to get to the fight.
3. Simultaneously too big and not big enough to make a real difference.
4. Much, thankfully.
5. Let's hope we don't build any more bases, and get out in the country with Achmed.
6. Let's hope not. We should instead be supporting those insurgents against the thuggocracy.
7. It's too small to call it that, and it's already the largest concern of TF HOA (Horn of Africa).
8. Not nearly brutal enough for what our mortal enemies deserve.
9. Same places, except more of them.
10. The continued fecklessness our Western leadership...not.
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