Increasing prosperity and freedoms will involve dismantling a support force of loyal allies, army generals and security chiefs that is used to growing rich through corruption.
But the force of YouTube and digital downloads is dismantling the old business model for music companies, and Asian artists like Psy are benefiting, analysts say.
It promises to be unpleasant business, this dismantling of many cherished assumptions about the U.S. force structure and its international reach, and Obama wants a battle-scarred and uncuddly sort to conduct it.