An important item over on my sister blog covering the latest evolution in the crisis in National Security wrought by the GOP under Bush-Cheney. RAND invents "Cognitive Counterinsurgency". We just call it the 'war of ideas', but once it has a spiffy name, the military can 'tee it up' for the GOP's President. Well worth a read.
Separately, (and of less importance), Romney gives details of his big-government, "no-tax-and-spend" plan on National Security, in four points.
I ask:
If GDP growth compounds and spending on threats is a constant proportion (4%), is the assessment here that threats in relation to the U.S.'s capacity to handle them are growing exponentially, too?
When I hear such things, I'm for zero-based budgeting.
