The Coming Long War

Always on the lookout for a pragmatic (if pessimistic) view of world events, I found this article from The Nation intriguing. Sample:

"Leading counterinsurgency theorist John Nagl, an Iraq combat veteran and now the head of the Center for a New American Security, writes that "there is a growing realization that the most likely conflicts of the next fifty years will be irregular warfare in an 'Arc of Instability' that encompasses much of the greater Middle East and parts of Africa and Central and South Asia."

Yikes.