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that preparing to “win” a war against China was a fool’s errand and should be replaced by a strategy of deterrence. As he put it:
“I think building our defense policy around the idea that we have to be able to beat China in an all-out war is wrong. It’s not the way it’s going to play out. If we get into an all-out war with China, we’re all screwed anyway. So we better focus on the steps that are necessary to prevent that. We should get off of this idea that we have to win a war in Asia with China.
Former Pentagon and military officials working for such corporations are uniquely placed to manipulate the system in favor of their new employers. They can wield both their connections with former colleagues in government and their knowledge of the procurement process to give their companies a leg up in the competition for Defense Department funding.
Pushing back against such a correlation of political forces would require concerted public pressure of a kind as yet unseen. But outfits like the
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