A corps commander has stated that since there is no serious external threat until well into the next century, his priorities are improving family support, creating better opportunities for single soldiers, and increasing the proportion of women in his command from 12 to 17 percent. What You Need to Know . Clausewitz's term refers to the chaos, surprise obstacles, accidents, and fog of uncertainty in war. Traditionally, such factors were considered inevitable in any major engagement. But history and experience have taught the dangers of over reliance on technology.
Technology is no substitute for soldierly excellence, which is developed the old-fashioned way.
A liberal democracy such as the United States faces a dilemma when it comes to having a military, for that military cannot govern itself by the liberal principles it ultimately defends. Mackubin Thomas Owens is an Adjunct Fellow of the Claremont Institute, a professor of strategy and force planning at the Naval War College in Newport, and a Marine infantry veteran of Vietnam.