GG, your reasoning is 100% correct and what we have to remember is that, with different words, the Defense Planning Guidance document articulates the same ideas – and orders – that forty five years earlier, the late US president Dwight Eisenhower ‘dictated’ in his farewell speech: “The United States of America must achieve Full Spectrum Dominance, by land, sea and air”. With these ominous words, all successive American presidents have been ‘educated’.