These are my summary points. It is no longer possible for any military to define what "real" conflict it wants to fight. Today’s wars are in our face, and they have no patience for slow learners.
Our RMA and Net Assessments process fall short, addressing only a quarter of the strategic investment areas where I believe the next President must be active.
Implementation of a new national security paradigm will require significant but very positive changes in how we organize our government, our active-reserve relationships, and a newly-constituted relationship with our private sector.
At the end of the day, transformation will come through an investment in people that can think, not in technology per se.
"Force protection" is most effective when it is built on a foundation of effective Peace Corps, information, economic, and diplomatic operations. We must find the money to put down our pre-conflict security grid.
TRANSITION: The order of battle priorities are changing.
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