<i>and the authority of governments everywhere is crumbling.</i><p>Good.<p><i>potentially undermining trust in incumbent governments for the foreseeable future</i><p>Even better. Trusting government is a fool's errand.<p><i>But, the document says, this should not be seen as defeatism, but rather a “wakeup call”. If nothing is done to adapt to this “post-primacy” environment, the complexity and speed of world events will “increasingly defy [DoD’s] current strategy, planning, and risk assessment conventions and biases.”</i><p>IOW, it's not the Department of <i>Defense</i> at all. It's more like the Department of World Domination.
Good. Here's how things should go:<p>1. First America stops being world police.<p>2. America plays ball with rest of world (adopts metric system, becomes a leader in climate, shares control of internet, turns concern toward to real issues like asteroids, population growth, health issues, cyber security)<p>3. Citizens acknowledge that war is a tool for siphoning tax money into the coffers of people with connections/government-contracts, and move towards a post-war-era.<p>4. Citizens start to move to a post-nation era, where we acknowledge have more in common with each other than our own politicians who drive us apart for financial gain.<p>5. We move toward universalizing language, so we hit a point that declaring war with Iraq seems as absurd as declaring war with Canada.<p>6. The very concept of "superiority" and "class" becomes meaningless as we move into an era of excess due to automation.<p>[Link to Pentagon's study: <a href="https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/download.cfm?q=1358" rel="nofollow">https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/download.cfm?q=1358</a>]
This was a top post in r/geopolitics a couple of days back. I can't find the link anymore, probably because it was removed. A lot of them commented that this sounded like DoD propaganda to get increased funding, especially when you consider that this study was funded by DoD.<p>Anyway, it is truly scary if they think they need to massively expand the already unparalleled American military dominance.
One thing I find particularly funny about the whole Trump-Russia connection and the possibility of Putin & Co. meddling with American Elections, is the disconnect of those that are so blindly outraged about it all.<p>Trump of course should resign if the intervention is proven as deliberate and facilitated by his side, but shall we make a list of all the foreign elections the US have been meddling with in the last 50 years?<p>The real solution? American friends, as much as I love you (and I do, mostly), you should just stop being so way up your own ass all the time. About everything. There's a world out there, across the borders and the two ponds.
Maybe they should consider exactly how badly they used their post-Cold War dominance. Things like the Iraq war leeched their dominance, by showing them as unprepared, by showing them as an occupying power and by splitting them with most of Europe.<p>It wasn't the only decision that had this effect, either. The report might as well say "We used to be rich, but we spent it all on fast cars and drink."
I wonder if this is what the Soviets proposed right before their collapse. I guess when you're a hammer (Pentagon) you only know how to hit things (war). We may or may not be about to collapse as an empire, but I'm certain that if we follow the plan outlined here, we will collapse as a society. We've already been heading there for quite awhile now. Let's spend more on military while our citizens are jobless, homeless, and dying of sickness, then use propaganda to tell them they're living the high life. There are, unfortunately, enough stupid people in this country to keep such a charade going. The current leadership, both political and military, is just a reflection of that.
Theres a easy cure that will be the norm in 100 or 200 years, whenever we get sick of capitalism. You're right capitalism is not currently recognized as a form of government, but in reality it is the dominant form of government in the west.<p>The cure is, get this, transparency. It'll take some effort to get to a true transparent government and im calling this new form Transparentism.