FROM AFGHANISTAN TO PEER WAR: MAKING CHANGE IN THE US WAR MACHINE

摘要

WHEN ROBERT GATES became US Secretary of Defense in 2006, he often became angry - sometimes in a 'blind fury', a US Air Force lieutenant general told me - because military officers were still making plans to fight the Cold War. Chuck Hagel, who became the latest Pentagon boss in February 2013, has a temper too and is upset because the military brass - some of them, at least - are still preparing for the war in Afghanistan.