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"Renewed Great Power Competition:
Implications for Defense—Issues for
Congress
Updated August 5, 2019"
Summary
World events in recent years have led observers, particularly since late 2013, to conclude that the
international security environment in recent years has undergone a shift from the post-Cold War
era that began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, also sometimes known as the unipolar moment
(with the United States as the unipolar power), to a new and different situation that features,
among other things, renewed great power competition with China and Russia and challenges by
these two countries and others to elements of the U.S.-led international order that has operated
since World War II.
The shift to renewed great power competition has become a major factor in the debate over future
U.S. defense spending levels, and has led to new or renewed emphasis on the following in
discussions of U.S. defense strategy, plans, and programs:
grand strategy and geopolitics as part of the context for discussing U.S. defense
budgets, plans, and programs;
nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence;
new U.S. military service operational concepts;
U.S. and NATO military capabilities in Europe;
capabilities for conducting so-called high-end conventional warfare (i.e., largescale, high-intensity, technologically sophisticated warfare) against countries
such as China and Russia;
maintaining U.S. technological superiority in conventional weapons;
speed of weapon system development and deployment as a measure of merit in
defense acquisition policy;
mobilization capabilities for an extended-length large-scale conflict against an
adversary such as China or Russia;
minimizing reliance in U.S. military systems on components and materials from
Russia and China; and
capabilities for countering so-called hybrid warfare and gray-zone tactics
employed by countries such as Russia and China.
The issue for Congress is how U.S. defense funding levels, strategy, plans, and programs should
respond to the shift in the international security environment. Congress’s decisions on these
issues could have significant implications for U.S. defense capabilities and funding requirements.
Implications for Defense—Issues for
Congress
Updated August 5, 2019"
Summary
World events in recent years have led observers, particularly since late 2013, to conclude that the
international security environment in recent years has undergone a shift from the post-Cold War
era that began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, also sometimes known as the unipolar moment
(with the United States as the unipolar power), to a new and different situation that features,
among other things, renewed great power competition with China and Russia and challenges by
these two countries and others to elements of the U.S.-led international order that has operated
since World War II.
The shift to renewed great power competition has become a major factor in the debate over future
U.S. defense spending levels, and has led to new or renewed emphasis on the following in
discussions of U.S. defense strategy, plans, and programs:
grand strategy and geopolitics as part of the context for discussing U.S. defense
budgets, plans, and programs;
nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence;
new U.S. military service operational concepts;
U.S. and NATO military capabilities in Europe;
capabilities for conducting so-called high-end conventional warfare (i.e., largescale, high-intensity, technologically sophisticated warfare) against countries
such as China and Russia;
maintaining U.S. technological superiority in conventional weapons;
speed of weapon system development and deployment as a measure of merit in
defense acquisition policy;
mobilization capabilities for an extended-length large-scale conflict against an
adversary such as China or Russia;
minimizing reliance in U.S. military systems on components and materials from
Russia and China; and
capabilities for countering so-called hybrid warfare and gray-zone tactics
employed by countries such as Russia and China.
The issue for Congress is how U.S. defense funding levels, strategy, plans, and programs should
respond to the shift in the international security environment. Congress’s decisions on these
issues could have significant implications for U.S. defense capabilities and funding requirements.
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Posted from crsreports.congress.govPosted in these groups: Weapons Operations Warfare Geopolitics / International Relations What Would You Do
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Grey Zone conflict and non-kinetic warfare; I have little doubt that the COVID-19 virus was a deliberate act of biological and economic warfare on the ChiComs’ part, and the MSM and politicians in country are playing right into their hands.
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AB Edward Mondini
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No doubt whatsoever.
#1. Fact as reported by Chinese researchers (who were subsequently silenced): the origin of COVID-19 is from a Research Lab in Wuhan. If it really did come from bats, why didn’t it emerge years ago?
#2. Doesn’t it seem more than just coincidence COVID-19 emerges just as China is being forced to increase its purchases of American products and cease its economic espionage while the Trump economy is roaring strong?
#3. The Chinese Communists deliberately delayed informing the world of COVID-1 while simultaneously sending its infected representatives into Europe & other countries.
#4. It seems particularly coincidental that, at the same time, President Trump widely imposes a ban on all travel between China & the US.
#5. Whose interests are best served by an economy that’s suddenly halted & handicapped by a Chinese virus? Think! Who has constantly been hoping the Trump-era economy would suffer a recession?
The Democrats & their allies in the MSM! We hear their diatribe every day on TV & radio. Democrats have been wishing this on America since Trump was elected in the hopes he would not be re-elected to a 2nd term.
#6. This serves the Chinese Communists as well since past Democrat Presidents have willingly surrendered to China’s unfair business practices & industrial espionage.
#7. I don’t know about any of you, but......I do have every intention of sending Trump back to the White House in November to continue the Trump economic Doctrine.
#1. Fact as reported by Chinese researchers (who were subsequently silenced): the origin of COVID-19 is from a Research Lab in Wuhan. If it really did come from bats, why didn’t it emerge years ago?
#2. Doesn’t it seem more than just coincidence COVID-19 emerges just as China is being forced to increase its purchases of American products and cease its economic espionage while the Trump economy is roaring strong?
#3. The Chinese Communists deliberately delayed informing the world of COVID-1 while simultaneously sending its infected representatives into Europe & other countries.
#4. It seems particularly coincidental that, at the same time, President Trump widely imposes a ban on all travel between China & the US.
#5. Whose interests are best served by an economy that’s suddenly halted & handicapped by a Chinese virus? Think! Who has constantly been hoping the Trump-era economy would suffer a recession?
The Democrats & their allies in the MSM! We hear their diatribe every day on TV & radio. Democrats have been wishing this on America since Trump was elected in the hopes he would not be re-elected to a 2nd term.
#6. This serves the Chinese Communists as well since past Democrat Presidents have willingly surrendered to China’s unfair business practices & industrial espionage.
#7. I don’t know about any of you, but......I do have every intention of sending Trump back to the White House in November to continue the Trump economic Doctrine.
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Capt Christian D. Orr
4 y
AB Edward Mondini Bingo! And let’s not forget Bolshevik Biden openly defending the Chinese regime several months back!
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AB Edward Mondini
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Capt Christian D. Orr
..........while also fattening his own personal bank account as well as the bank account of his crackhead son, Hunter Biden.
..........while also fattening his own personal bank account as well as the bank account of his crackhead son, Hunter Biden.
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