Will the new National Security Strategy align with America's power in the Era of Great Power Competition?
Three decades of unprecedented U.S. power in the wake of our victory in the Cold War have conditioned America’s policy elites to assume that the international system will ultimately always bend to our will. ... We believe that we have agency in world affairs, while we remain unwilling to pay for properly resourcing our military and our defense industry, as though we were still living in the post-Cold War world.
America coasted on its Cold War arsenal as the foundation of military power bolstered by new technology. That worked in a world with a broken and quiet Russia and a still-weak China.
Will America's new national security strategy account for the new situation? Or will it proclaim the objective of post-Cold War dominance? If so, will America spend to achieve that? Yet can America spend to achieve that as cumulative budget deficits pile up a national debt that is finally being noticed (if not really addressed)?
Let's take the logistics step first and then see where we are.
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