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Change is an arduous thing. In scientific theory and military strategy the process is similar, and exceptionally brutal. Established beliefs and practices are threatened by new ideas. Innovators champion the new paradigm while traditionalists circle the wagons. Thinkers are labeled heretics, and persecuted. Traditionalists stop thinking, and rely instead on dogma, rote learning, and a [...]

Major General Scales’ lament in “The Military Budget Pie” (Washington Times, January 10, 2007) is eccentric, if not discouragingly familiar.

Scales begins with a melancholic elegy; his beloved Army breaks whenever it is sent to war. I disagree, but were this true I would be hard-pressed to advocate, as does Scales, “a huge infusion of [...]