ARE CARRIER GROUPS, FIGHTER WINGS, AND INFANTRY DIVISIONS ANACHRONISTIC IN FUTURE WARFARE? Of course not, says former Marine, Reagan assistant secretary of defense and best-selling author Bing West at the Hoover Institute. “Having thrown a few bouquets, let me now raise two looming challenges: our force structure such as carriers and fighter wings is decreasing at a perilous rate, while our operational command procedures are becoming too centralized.”

Read the whole thing. As Moe Lane joked last year, “Attention, whoever in the White House monitors this site. Google ‘Lyndon Johnson micromanagement Vietnam.’” Obviously, they never did — unless the now famously ahistoric Obama administration considers LBJ’s military mismanagement to be a how-to guide, and not a warning.