About our Military Future

If you are not a regular reader of Pen and Sword then you should be. Jeff Huber the author is a retired Navy commander and brings some good writing and years of experience to questions around the security and military issues that continue to present themselves.
In his latest post Jeff discusses the future of American military power and makes some excellent points.

Example:

Mister Bush has become fond of saying, "We can no longer hope that oceans protect us from harm." As with so much of what Bush says, that statement is largely bunk.

Yes, terrorists can sneak into this country, hijack airplanes, and drive them into skyscrapers. But that was as true in 1948 as it is now. Rogue nations like Iran or North Korea may someday be able to strike American cities with nuclear tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, but the Soviets became capable of doing that during the Eisenhower administration.

It is refreshing to see a career military man ask these kind of questions and it gives one hope that we have a sufficient quantity of similarly thoughtful people still in the armed forces.