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Yes, quite simply, since 1945 we have based our contingency planning on only a limited set of war scenarios and have essentially hoped that MAD would preclude another major great powers conflict. On top of that, since the 1980s, we have increasingly conned ourselves into believing that we have passed beyond the end of history and are therefore no longer subject to its rules. Our "War on Terror" conveniently skirts the harsh reality that major nation states such as the PRC and CIS ensemble are the real powers behind both so called "rogue states" and the terrorists. You see, if we embraced that reality, then the whole notion of a "world community" and its relative, the so called "global economic system" would be dashed to pieces. These things are the latest utopia. As we know, utopias are not real. Hard reckoning is on the way.

Ah, I see. So we have failed to "Know your Enemy" as directed by Sun Tzu and I'm not familiar with Von Clausewitz's writings but I take it they had to do with utopias.