Is The American Way Of War Coming To An End?

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Paul McLeary, Breaking Defense: The End Of The American Way of War; The Cold War Really Is Over

The American way of war — using overpowering industrial might, crushing firepower, and owning the sea and skies — may have come to an end, a top Pentagon official says.

For the past two decades, “the Chinese and the Russians have been working to undermine that model,” said Elbridge Colby, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development. By spending billions on modernizing their militaries and fielding new technologies like artificial intelligence and hypersonic missiles at a faster clip than the Americans, the two countries have changed the way the United States must approach future conflict.

“I want to really stress that everything should be circled back to what the problem statement is, what the problem definition is, which is defeating the Chinese or Russian potential theories of victory,” Colby told an audience at the annual directed Energy Summit, co-sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The answer, as much as there is one, will be found in a combination of technology, training, and doctrine, “but we should be taking initiative. They’ve gone after our theory of victory? We should go after their theory of victory so we have a better deterrent.”

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WNU Editor: We are definitely living in a  different world today. The U.S. may still have the world's most formidable military, but developments in more lethal technologies is forcing a leveling of the battlefield there by balancing out U.S. firepower. The world's industrial base is also now more diversified ... and forget about owning the sea and skies.