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To: Win Smith who wrote (21457)	3/15/2002 1:32:01 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 281500

Health care reform seems to me an uncomfortably good analogy, actually. There seem to be way too many entrenched interests there for fundamental reform to get much traction yes--but the parallel has many different aspects. Thus I gather (although I know squat-all about it) that the health care system in the U.S. has undergone some pretty dramatic changes over time, and will continue to do so, whether or not the big, top-down, reforms get stymied. Same is true of the RMA (revolution in military affairs, aka defense transformation). War is changing, the US role in the world is changing, and the US military is following, albeit much more slowly than many would like. Anyone seriously interested in this subject should definitely check out the next (May/June) FA, which I gather has four separate articles on different aspects of the topic, from both leading govt. officials and top independent civilian defense policy analysts. Together they offer a well-rounded take on how to think about US military policy going forward... tb@gatherer.com