War Mongering Just Ain't the Same No More

Here's an interesting article describing how the Pentagon is reviewing their long standing national defense and war waging strategies. Due to the ongoing lesson that is Iraq, they're realizing traditional approaches will be ineffective when applied to conflicts that we are likely to end up in going forward. The current model is described as the

1-4-2-1 [strategy], with the first number representing the defense of American territory. That is followed by numbers representing the ability to deter hostilities in four critical areas of the world, and to swiftly defeat two adversaries in near-simultaneous major combat operations The final number stands for a requirement that the military retain the capability, at the same time, to decisively defeat one of those two adversaries, which would include capturing a capital and toppling a government.

All the hippies in college always told me we were wasting too much money on the military and here it is in writing. I guess the budgeting process isn't as accommodating since the Iraq war is costing us way more money than anyone ever cared to consider.