http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/20/uk-releases-next-security-strategy/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/20/uk-releases-next-security-strategy/#comment-98863 William R. Cumming Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:34:23 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/20/uk-releases-next-security-strategy/#comment-98863 Interesting use of the term "Forseeable Future" in 1998 Defense Strategic Plan. Until almost the end of 1937 the British planning basis for their military was something like "Not foreseeable within the next 10 years" and of course that planning basis was soon ended with Britain ratching up rearmament to its maximum by 1939. Still what does foreseeable mean absent intelligent "intelligence" analysis. What is foreseeable as of March 30, 2008 (the vernal equinox means its spring). World population doubling? Climate change? Global Warming or new Ice Age? North Atlantic Oscillation? World peace and successful elimination of disease and poverty? Again, one of the best analytical pieces on why wars happen is John Keegan's "ON WAR" and despite his hope that wars have ended his catalog of causes seems to be in the nature of basic human nature. So wherein is the "Foreseeable" for "Security in an Interdependent World." The British public intellectuals thought once before that interdependency would preclude the disaster of war only to experience WWI. Here's to hope, EASTER 2008. Interesting use of the term “Forseeable Future” in 1998 Defense Strategic Plan. Until almost the end of 1937 the British planning basis for their military was something like “Not foreseeable within the next 10 years” and of course that planning basis was soon ended with Britain ratching up rearmament to its maximum by 1939. Still what does foreseeable mean absent intelligent “intelligence” analysis. What is foreseeable as of March 30, 2008 (the vernal equinox means its spring). World population doubling? Climate change? Global Warming or new Ice Age? North Atlantic Oscillation? World peace and successful elimination of disease and poverty? Again, one of the best analytical pieces on why wars happen is John Keegan’s “ON WAR” and despite his hope that wars have ended his catalog of causes seems to be in the nature of basic human nature. So wherein is the “Foreseeable” for “Security in an Interdependent World.” The British public intellectuals thought once before that interdependency would preclude the disaster of war only to experience WWI. Here’s to hope, EASTER 2008.

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