We are lucky to already have MILC – the “greedy” Congressmen that Barnett sometimes criticizes are part of it. The MILC eats up a lot of money, but is very useful as a hedge against China. Democracy, capitalism, institutions, and nuclear weapons may not be enough to keep peace. But China’s knowledge that we can sink their fleet at will might.

What we need to build, almost from the group up, is a Military-Industrial-SysAdmin-Complex. We need a system we can use in countries like Iraq, using the Army/Marines as the Core, but leveraging Private Military Companies and local militias, too.