Refocus - There's an Idea

President Barack Obama will unveil a revised US military strategy on Thursday designed to reflect fiscal constraints and a greater focus on the potential threat posed by a rising China, officials said.

The plan calls for confronting possible challenges from Iran and China with air and naval power while shifting away from counter-insurgency campaigns requiring large ground forces, officials and analysts said.

  Raw Story

Yeah, we haven’t been too successful with that guerilla warfare business. And if they could teach those kids they hype up not to fire missiles at anything that moves, they could also save some money.

“It sure looks clear that the administration wants to put more emphasis on the Pacific relative to the Middle East,” [Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,] said.

Previous presidents have attempted a similar change in course but “the Middle East has tended to get a lot of emphasis because things happen there that drag us in,” he said.

Oh, yeah, drag us in. We’re so reluctant.

US defense officials also said the strategy review likely will pave the way for reducing the military’s footprint in Europe, by eliminating at least one brigade, or about 3,500 troops.

I think we better call that a partial print.  Not even a whole whorl.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.