Jerry Hendrix,National Review
The service risks seeing its relevance decline in A2AD environmentsThe United States Navy needs to make some tough choices whether it wishes to remain relevant in the Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) security environment that lies ahead of it. It must begin to adjust its strategy as well as its accompanying shipbuilding and aircraft-procurement plans to enable it to fight and win within the emerging distinguished-power competition. This novel environment, at last recognized in President Trump's National Security Strategy and the Secretary of Defense's National Defense Strategy, and requires the Navy to strike...
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