bluesman,
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Just try to get out of your Realist mindset for a moment (because, thank Gawd, the ISG's laughable product has utterly discredited it), and get your head around this concept: chaos, anarchy, instability and the Fog of War are our ALLIES, when used against our ENEMIES.
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sorry, a bit off-topic, but the academic in me has a nitpick here.
the term realist has been used wrongly over and over in both the press and academia. realism does not discount the value of chaos, anarchy, instability, and fog of war- it ACCEPTS those as the very structure of the international system.
while the ISG's product does have tenets of realism, so too does your idea.
as for utterly discrediting realism, from your perspective, better hope not. the main alternative to realism is liberalism, which has for its core principles that while anarchy is present, it can be reduced or even negated- by international organizations.