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A decade after Washington signaled a historic shift in its grand strategy toward China, the United States has yet to have a “Sputnik moment” of national awakening and mobilization. David Feith describes seven ways the US can strengthen its efforts to win the new cold war.
China and Russia increasingly target the cognitive processes, beliefs, and unit cohesion of opponents to achieve military objectives. To prepare US service members, the Department of War needs to adopt strategies to build critical thinking and individual resistance to persuasive cognitive attacks, writes Jake Bebber in a new policy memo.
Owen Dorney explains how the Development Finance Corporation can help America break China’s monopoly over critical minerals in First Breakfast.
The US military needs a new way to build and field cyber and electronic warfare effects. Bryan Clark argues that a “virtual sandbox” could be a key tool in filling the Pentagon’s non-kinetic magazine to make Chinse military planners doubt whether their strategies might work.
China claims that it has a minimum deterrent, follows a no-first-use policy and uses nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. But none of that is true, writes Rebeccah Heinrichs. She argues that, to maintain deterrence, the US needs to (1) modernize its nuclear delivery systems, (2) formally exit the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, and (3) accelerate development of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N).
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Ruling out the use of clean fossil fuel technologies would be a costly mistake for the US economy and environment, argues Thomas J. Duesterberg in a Wall Street Journal letter.
