There's always a vertible shitload of "experts" when it comes to fighting wars, generally of the type who've never experienced it firsthand.
It's important to understand that this country frist asks those who've fought wars on how to fight a war.
Though some of stratfor's material will be viewed, there are literally thousands of individual veterans in this nation who are fully capacble of providing the best intelligence possible.

This war is going to be a nasty one. Aging Vietnam vets may be drafted or "asked" to assist in defeating this plague. This proximity of China is an immediate concern to anyone with a brain. A worse case contingency concerning that subject nees to be completley hashed out before anything big happens.
There's many variables and much hate in that area of the world and even a small intervention could spark a world war.

The last real war this nation fought is Vietnam. Cudos to all vets, especially the yuoung troops serving in the Bosnian/Serbian theatre, and all vets all over the world that we have deployed. That's one problem. We have our forces too thinned out.
As for me, I would serve again immediatly! They'd have to accept some health problems but in-so-far as training, hell, no problem there at all. This time they have to give me bars. I/we'd better hope it doesn't get that bad.
Nice to be able to answer an email without endless popups.
frank