Jeez, warfighting doctrine critique/advice from NYTimes... good lord...
The authors have other full-time jobs. What are the errors, if you please?
"The Pentagon is just starting to catch up with these changes. It is in the midst of a strategic overhaul aimed at coming up with new ways to fight new wars. This was first signaled in the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review, which described the “long war” America is now engaged in as “a war that is irregular in its nature” against adversaries that “are not conventional military forces.” "
Actually it started right before 9/11 when Rumsfeld had the task of reconstituting the military after the Clintons dismantling of it.
Problem was that it just isn't the military. It is everything and the NY Times has managed to destroy everything else but the military they are saying should be changed.