Two recent books by experienced war correspondents tell important stories that call parts of the defense transformation program into question.

Afghanistan has been treated as little more than a mark on a checklist, validating theories about the future American way of war and the universal appeal of democracy.

A U.S.-India strategic partnership, if fully developed, would be the single most important step toward an alliance capable of meeting the 21st century's principal challenges: radical Islam and rising China.

With China’s declaration of an anti-secession law, Washington has received a timely if unwelcome reminder of the depth of Beijing’s determination to retake Taiwan and the reality of geopolitical rivalry in East Asia.

The brand-new National Defense Strategy of the United States is pretty good stuff. It's vintage Rumsfeld, preaching the gospel of "continuous transformation," which, when you think about it, is a uniquely American idea.

They're happy to let us worry about North Korea while they assemble long-term plans to counter American hegemony.

The September 11 attacks, the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the counterinsurgency campaigns that have increasingly defined the day-to-day reality of the global war on terror have all recast these assumptions about U.S. national security. Descargar PDF

To begin with, Japan appears to be undergoing a true strategic renaissance, even to the point now of pushing the Bush administration to take its responsibilities in East Asia seriously and not sublimate the problem of China entirely to concerns in the Middle East. Descargar PDF

The establishmentarian critique of President Bush's policy in Iraq -and the scheming neocons for whom the president is supposed to be the Manchurian Candidate- is that they are blinded by ideology. There is, almost certainly, a grain of truth in this, but it comes from a profound belief in the American creed; it is the establishment that has the greatest difficulty in seeing reality in Iraq clearly. Descargar PDF

In the middle of fighting the global war on terror, America has forgotten about their "strategic competitor" to the East. The Chinese have noticed. The Chinese can barely contain their self-satisfaction these days, and Beijing's recently-released white paper, China's National Defense in 2004, is a 36-page-wide smirk. Descargar PDF

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