How America organizes itself to win both war and peaceFor years now I've argued for splitting America's military into one force that wins conventional wars and another that focuses on crisis response, disaster relief, post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction, and counterinsurgency operations. That decisive bifurcation of our forces is currently on display in Africa.
I dub the war-fighting force the Leviathan, a term borrowed from the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, whose book of the same name described why man's life was then filled with wars: the lack of an all-powerful entity that enforced global peace. America's conventional force constitutes just such a capability in today's world.
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