The US’ National Defense Strategy focuses on Great Power competition.
The unclassified summary of the recently released document outlines
three prevailing strategic approaches
that the Pentagon aims to follow in the coming years, which are to
reinforce and expand its alliance system while optimizing military
lethality and back-end departmental operations such as logistics and
expenditures. The clichéd saying of building a “lean, mean, killing
machine” is very apt in this context, but while that’s technically the
mission of all militaries, the American one is reconceptualizing its
purpose in line with the Neo-Realist paradigm of International Relations
and sees its core objective as maintaining a balance of power that can
indefinitely sustain its post-Cold War global model. [ 525 more words ]
