If you didn't get a chance to listen to this, the file has been posted and is available directly OR from the OnPoint site where you can also read the responses people are posting. The "Mr. X" article written by George Kennan is also available here.
Tonight on NPR's OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, two senior members of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff will talk about the need to spend more on education and less on guns. ************************
The guests are Captain Wayne Porter, US Navy, and Colonel Mark "Puck" Mykleby, US Marine Corps, both Special Assistants to the Chairman for Strategy to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen.
You might also want to read an article they wrote under the shared pseudonym "Mr. Y." entitled "A National Strategic Narrative."