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A new look at national security.(National Security)(Book Review)

The American Enterprise

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A New Look at National Security Thomas Donnelly, "Mind the Gap," AEI National Security Outlook, June 2004 (aei.org)

The gap between America's military objectives and its ability to carry out those objectives is large and growing, according to AEI fellow Thomas Donnelly. In particular, Donnelly contends that American troops throughout the world are currently involved in long-term, low-level counterinsurgency missions beyond what they are capable of accomplishing. "Without significant institutional reform," Donnelly writes, "this is a struggle the United States is capable of losing."

The next administration should modify current policy, Donnelly argues, while adopting a strategy that will allow the United States to "preserve, protect, and expand the remarkably peaceful and liberal international order."

One of the most important tasks for the President during the next term, Donnelly writes, will be overseeing the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review. Previous reports on U.S. military capacity have been filtered through the "narrow lens of nuclear nonproliferation" without giving ample consideration to the ...

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