The days of permissive strategic deployments — like the 2003 Iraq invasion — are gone, he said
Which needs to be considered in re Bolton's recent noise about deploying 120k troops to deal with Iran.
Uh, that doesn't happen overnight, John-boy.
The point in the article about the South China Sea being China's back yard is easily folded into the Jominian "interior lines/exterior lines" model ... that's not even new thinking.