
Robert Kaplan: Distracting Iraq War Led to Asian Century Aspen Institute - Aspen, CO Robert Kaplan claims that the Iraq war has "fast-forwarded the Asian century" by enabling their military capacity building to go unnoticed while the U.S. and Europe have been focused exclusively on the Middle East.Asian armies are no longer the "ox and peasant" forces, Kaplan says, but part of Asia's modernized civil military post-industrial complex.
