This is a guest contribution from Mr. Z.  Mr. Z is the pseudonym for a career strategist at the Department of Defense and an active duty 06.

When the 2011 National Military Strategy (NMS) (pdf) was released in February it received very little attention and fanfare outside the small cadre of military officer and defense analysts anticipating its arrival. While it is a document the vast majority of Americans have never heard of, much less read, it plays an important role in shaping the broad strategy of the US military. Given its rather radical effort to alter the military’s . . .
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