Getting to the Next War is Going to be Tough

摘要

Of all the challenges America's military faces, the one least susceptible to a fiscal or technological fix is geography. The vast oceans that protected the United States from attack for much of its history are a major logistical problem when the military needs to get to a foreign conflict fast. That's one reason why so much of the joint force was forward deployed in Eurasia during the Cold War-military planners knew they couldn't react quickly to communist aggression if warf-ighters needed to be transported all the way from the Western Hemisphere.