Alternative to the Long War

ARTICLE:  The ‘Long War’ Fallacy
(Los Angeles Times)…Andrew J. Bacevich, May 13, 2008
Pg. 17

Donald Rumsfeld is today a discredited and widely reviled figure. Robert Gates, Rumsfeld’s successor as Defense secretary, is generally admired for manifesting qualities that Rumsfeld lacked — a willingness to listen not least among them. Yet on one crucial point, the two see eye to eye: Both believe that the United States has no alternative but to wage a global war likely to last decades.

Challenges the mindset about waging “a global war likely to last decades.”  What kind of change will lead to better outcomes?

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