The U.S. Is Not Yet Ready for the Era of ‘Great Power’ Conflict
Posted on AllSides March 6th, 2023
From The Center
ANALYSIS
Clint Hinote returned from a deployment in Baghdad in the spring of 2018 to a new assignment and a staggering realization.
A classified Pentagon wargame simulated a Chinese push to take control of the South China Sea. The Air Force officer, charged with plotting the service’s future, learned that China’s well-stocked missile force had rained down on the bases and ports the U.S. relied on the region, turning American combat aircraft and munitions into smoldering ruins in a matter of days.
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