Its arch-rival Boeing now dominates the market: two years ago it absorbed McDonnell Douglas, which allows it to exploit common technology in military and civil applications.
The basic idea was that the Internet was transforming every facet of human interaction including conflict, so the country that developed military doctrine and organization to fully exploit the new technology was likely to dominate its enemies in the wars of tomorrow.
Third, the failed states in Africa and the oxymoronic governments in many African nations create serious politico-military vacuums that terrorists groups can fill and exploit for nefarious ends.
Future enemies would seek to avoid direct engagement with a U.S. military so demonstrably superior in classic conventional combat and try to exploit weaknesses in U.S. defenses through asymmetric means.