The thing is, confronting Ms. Beckstein’s Commonwealth—or should I call her Mrs. Burgeson now?—is no longer the gold-standard nightmare scenario. The new gold standard is dealing with a paranoid Soviet-style nuclear superpower in the middle of its first succession crisis, and an invasion by para-time aliens—simultaneously. COL. SMITH: The two great mistakes in warfare—never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never start a war on two fronts—needed a para-time update. Right? So which should we prioritize?
