1. See Thom Shanker and Steven Erlanger, ‘Blunt U.S. Warning Reveals Deep Strains in NATO’, New York Times, 10 June 2011.
2. For good analyses of ‘transformation’ see Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor, Cobra II (London: Atlantic Books, 2006);
3. Steven Metz, Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2008);
4. Thomas Adams, The Army After Next (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).
5. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 32.