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The Pentagon's New Map > Director's CommentaryDIFFERENT WORLDS, DIFFERENT RULE SETSThis section basically lays out what I think is one of the most important policy implications of the Core-Gap thesis: that the U.S. Government needs to get honest with itself, the American public, and the world that when we go into the Gap we simply enter a different rule-set arena. So this section becomes the great explanation of why preemption is a reasonable approach to dealing with the new threats we face in this era, making this material probably my most apologetic WRT to the Bush Administration. I first did this notion as a simple op-ed for the Providence Journal entitled, "The 'Core' and 'Gap': Defining Rules in a Dangerous World." When it came out, one officer at the college said to me, "Your concept is really too good to waste on just an op-ed in the Projo. You need to write an entire article, or maybe a book." That guy, Steve Smith, really did get me thinking . . .. This whole section is based on a very simple visual presentation in the
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