IN A SOFTENING AMERICA, war is something most of us let the best of us pursue. Robert D. Kaplan examines the likely outcomes in "On Forgetting the Obvious" @ The American Interest Kaplan is the author of the astute Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Random House, 2001), a book I found to be both inspiring and illuminating. In this article Kaplan sees the fundamental split in America today, and the shape of the America to come: Without a draft or a revitalized Reserve...