One Of The Most Important Post-9/11 Efforts

History Demonstrates That Previous Military Drawdowns Invited Aggression By Our Enemies. After World War I, America Drew Down Forces Until The U.s. Army Had Fewer Than 100,000 Men In Uniform. That Weakness Invited Nazi Aggression In Europe And The Imperial Japanese Attack At Pearl Harbor.

The Object Of China's Strategy Is Inexorably To Supplant The United States As The World's Premier Economic Power, And If Necessary, To Defeat Us Militarily.

After America Won The Cold War, Some Believed We Had Come To The 'end Of History,' And Budget-cutters Celebrated The So-called 'peace Dividend.' As A Result, We Ignored The Toxic Mixture Of Militant Islam And Terror That Ultimately Led To 9/11.

Too Many Countries That Do Not Play By The Free Trade Rules Of The World Trade Organization - Including, Notably Mercantilist China And Monopolist Saudi Arabia - Have Been Allowed In, To The Detriment Of Both The Wto And The Liberal Trading Environment It Is Supposed To Sponsor.

Unfortunately, The Cyber Threat To 'the Grid' Is Only One Means Of Eviscerating The Soft Underbelly Of American Society. Another Which Has Been Getting Increasing Attention Could Be Delivered Via The Kind Of Nuclear-armed Ballistic Missile That Iran And North Korea Have Been Developing: A Strategic Electro-magnetic Pulse Attack.