Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon official, has argued that the US military is far from the ideal organisation to respond to this multiplicity of challenges. Instead, she suggests that the defence of western societies and the projection of soft power need to be rethought as a collective national purpose. “Imagine a revamped public sector premised on the idea of universal service — an America in which every young man and woman spends a year or two in work that fosters national and global security,” she has written.
前五角大楼官员罗莎布鲁克斯(Rosa Brooks)主张,美国军方远非应对这种多方位挑战的理想组织。相反,她提出防御西方社会和投射软实力需要被界定为一项国家集体宗旨,并据此重新思考。“想像一下以全民服役理念为前提进行的公共部门大改革——让美国每个年轻男女都花一两年时间投身于促进国家乃至全球安全的工作,”她写道。
Such ambitions are academic while Donald Trump remains in the White House, committed as he is to increasing spending on old-fashioned military hardware. Besides, the Kremlin could hardly wish for a more compliant US president than one who has praised Vladimir Putin’s strong leadership, been hesitant to support Nato’s collective security and denounced the US media for peddling “fake news”.
在唐纳德特朗普(Donald Trump)还主宰白宫的时候,从他对于提高传统军事装备支出的承诺看,这样的抱负只能是空谈。此外,克里姆林宫不可能期盼找到一个比特朗普更好对付的美国总统了——他曾赞扬弗拉基米尔普京(Vladimir Putin)的强势领导、不太情愿支持北约的集体安全,并且谴责美国媒体兜售“假资讯”。
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