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With this ABC News headline this morning "Pentagon plans to cut most of its support to CIA's counterterrorism missions" @BrianMJenkins deep think piece for @CTCWP Sentinel on the future role of US armed forces in CT is vital reading. https://ctc.usma.edu/the-future-role-of-the-u-s-armed-forces-in-counterterrorism/
In CTC Sentinel @BrianMJenkins writes "Dividing the military into near-peer warfare & counterterrorism camps makes little sense. Future wars will require ... capabilities to counter an array of conventional and unconventional modes of conflict, including terrorism."
Another point made by @BrianMJenkins in his important CTC Sentinel essay: "Reduced defense spending in the post-pandemic environment will further increase pressure to cut counterterrorism—but the savings will be modest. Shifting priorities should not mean discarding competence."
The CTC Sentinel essay by @BrianMJenkins has this final line: "Events, not plans or preferences, will determine how much the United States will be able to shift or not shift resources away from counterterrorism and toward near peer competition."
