On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
The Rumsfeld Doctrine is an ultimate fad, a fad that translated the corporate management philosophy of "lean and mean" corporations powered by high technology and dependent on outsourcing into a military doctrine. Unlike an academic fad, in this case, this fad has dangerously sought to apply what works for corporations, whose externalities are paid for by the state, to the military, an arm of the state whose externalities have to be paid for by itself. Modern wars can be fought well only on the basis of state socialism or capitalism, and only guerrillas and terrorists, not states, can actually fight post-modern warfare.
the Rumsfeld Doctrine meshes well with the whole idea of spinning off as much of the traditional military as possible to the private sector (the Cheney Doctrine?). Even soldiering has been partiallly "privatized," with all of those private security forces. This also fits with the notion of the all-volunteer army (which may be biting the dust as we speak). -- Jim Devine / "Self-exhaustion in war has killed more states than any foreign assailant." -- BH Liddell Hart.
