Type Of Future Wars And Our Strategic Planning

I just found a rather interesting discussion on the type of war that the future may bring at the kings of war blog.

Is the old industrial war over?

‘our militaries are still structured to fight an industrial battle against a nonexistent Soviet enemy, and the political-military way of thinking about using force is still based on models of industrial war.’

The answer to this claim on the post is that:

To be sure, nuclear weapons, costs, the memory of past interstate wars and other things mean that it remains an activity bound to make many nervousBut part of the task of the US as hegemon should be to keep it that way, rather than falling prey to the delusion of ‘full spectrum dominance’ and the trap of endless, unwinnable expeditionary wars.

Moreover, things might change. To assume the obsolescence of state threats from a recent tendency for fewer, less decisive interstate wars in the past twenty years would be an unfortunate case of ‘presentism.’

The answer speaks for itself. I just wanted to add that the main threat right now is the fundamental Islam that creates a ring of influence over many states and gathers support. It can be in fact that more these states start to cooperate their efforts against the US the more we would face something like a strong enemy similar to what the Soviet Union has been.