Bacevich and some friends: Time for a commission to assess the post-9/11 wars

Andrew Bacevich, one of the more
interesting thinkers around, has a good piece
with some other cats proposing a independent, non-partisan commission "to evaluate
the military experience of the past decade." They call for an examination of
five particular aspects: The design of U.S. combat forces, the U. S. global
military footprint, the national security apparatus, the civil-military gap and
how top jobs have been filled.

This strikes me as a worthwhile
proposal.

Meanwhile, I finally caught up
with Professor Bacevich's essay
on Albert Wohlstetter, which contains this memorable two-cushion shot in
reference to the revolution in military affairs, or RMA:

Joint Vision 2010 stands in relation to the RMA as Tom Friedman's The
Lexus and the Olive Tree stands in relation to globalization: it is an
infomercial-marketing disguised as elucidation.