I discuss the possibilities of America relinquishing its global ambition to reduce its footprint to a regional hegemon in the Western hemisphere. The new technologies of AI, UAVs and hypersonics rather easily challenge the spending paradigms and mission architecture of the American armed forces.
There are no near-peer competitors, every nation on Earth is now a peer to modern western war machines.
America boasts a magnificent 20th century war machine is not fit for purpose for 21st century peer warfare.
The crossroads is chock-full of landmines.
References:
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
Martin van Creveld
The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz
Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945
Colin Gray
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
William Lind Maneuver Warfare Handbook
John Boyd Patterns of Conflict
Michael Weiner Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA
John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of DarknessSun Tzu The Art of War
Carl von Clausewitz On War
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
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