....The administration is set to release the latest National Defense Strategy. The current document, which perhaps should be renamed the National War Strategy, given the renaming of the Pentagon, is about the aims of containing/competing, deterring, and if war comes, defeating a range of enemies topped by China and Russia. No one has defined what competing means or how it is to be measured.
And who has been deterred? Russia has invaded Ukraine twice. China has not been retained in expanding its influence, economy and military power. The military parade last week in Beijing was quite a show of the Chinese military that the great Chinese war philosopher Sun Tzu would appreciate.
About winning a war, any conflict among these powers could escalate to the use of thermonuclear weapons. A thermonuclear weapon is 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan. As serious leaders agree, thermonuclear war must not be fought and cannot be won.
If war is contained to non-nuclear forces, it could be a long conflict. But the U.S. defense industrial base is incapable of supporting a long war. Spending trillions of....
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