You see - you missed his point entirely. It is not about selling or giving away guns. It is about having and using the ability to send several hundred thousand troops 1/2 around the world and use them to overthrow a bad political actor. No one else can do that.
the author is obviously disrespectful of the chief distinguishing characteristic of America, freedom. He is also unwilling to connect that distinguishing trait with technological innovation and business prosperity.
Where do you get that notion? I think you are putting words in his mouth.
No, I think you missed the point.
America's success has nothing to do with government policies or individuals such as the author of this summary of old news and facts.
It has everything to do with innovation and prosperity. Those two things rest on the energy, spirit and drive of America's free markets and the individuals that keep those markets on the cutting edge. It has nothing to do with the War College, Rumsfield or the current view that Chiina needs more energy and less centralization, etc.
The War College and its league cannot invent a prosperous society as a means of supplanting a warlike culture. To see this, note that the policies and strategies the author summarizes have existed for decades.
The problem is that the American prosperity model is rejected in cultures that are vertically concentrated. Although injections of economic products and services can help erode this vertical concentration, such injections more often than not must be imposed by force.
So the author has found himself a bone from which he can generate what I described before as generic chit-chat, suitable for filling conference schedules with something that appears somewhat current, i.e. he's a boe.