Army returns to pre-eminence among the services

The US Army has returned to the status of the "first among equals" of the US armed forces. That according to Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer of the Lexington Institute Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University. This is one of the four major trends in US defense posture. The other three:

* Transformation as envisioned four years ago is faltering, and it will continue yielding to emerging political and technological realities in the years ahead.

* The national-security space program is bankrupt, and new approaches to intelligence gathering will gradually eclipse it.

* More generally, the future of intelligence-gathering isn't what it used to be, and that means both opportunities and problems for those seeking business there.

All this from The Braden Files, which is one of the jewels of the 'sphere and needs a much wider readership than it enjoys.