Robert Kaplan Restates the Obvious

This stunning article by Robert Kaplan highlights that Americans have lost perspective on the costs associated with our free lifestyle and have lost the consistent will required to keep it in the face of relentless adversaries who count on this weakness to succeed.

On Forgetting the Obvious
By Robert D. Kaplan

Some truths are so obvious that to mention them in polite company seems either pointless or rude. What is left unstated, however, can with time be forgotten. Both of these observations apply today to the American way of war. It is obvious that a military can only fight well on behalf of a society in which it believes, and that a society which believes little is worth fighting for cannot, in the end, field an effective military. Obvious as this is, we seem to have forgotten it.

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