The Pentagon is still investing in 'deeply flawed' strategies to the detriment of national security, said the Center for New American Security report.
, these people"are focused on the wrong thing." he explained,"When you get into a fight where somebody's got a shield, you don't spend your entire time slamming your sword into their shield. You try to find a way around that shield."
"This has led to the situation in which U.S. armed forces are the most powerful in the world by a wide margin, and yet they increasingly run the risk of losing a future war with China or Russia," his report explained. Dougherty offered four suggestions that a new strategy must consider. Though U.S. military planners have long sought to engage enemies at a time and place of America's choosing, Dougherty said this was no longer possible."These are great powers with significant military capabilities and, in all likelihood, if war were to break out [between] the United States and one of those two powers, it would likely be the time and place of their choosing.
The Russian and Chinese arsenals also mean that the U.S. must learn to"operate without sanctuary." With long-range and covert capabilities,"Competitors that can reach out and hit us in the homeland," Doughterty continued."How do we operate under that assumption?"
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