“While as a rule, U.S. leaders of both political parties have consistently committed to the maintenance of U.S. military superiority over all potential state rivals, the post-primacy reality demands a wider and more flexible military force that can generate advantage and options across the broadest possible range of military demands. To U.S. political leadership, maintenance of military advantage preserves maximum freedom of action… Finally, it allows U.S. decision-makers the opportunity to dictate or hold significant sway over outcomes in international disputes in the shadow of significant U.S. military capability and the implied promise of unacceptable consequences in the event that capability is unleashed.”
tl;dr give us more money so we can keep telling brown people we’ll kill them if they disobey
:smiling face with sunglasses: pretty much agree with @T34@lemmygrad.ml but also loving the headline :smiling face with sunglasses:
looks like they took the report down, but it’s still available on the internet archive https://web.archive.org/web/20181231142415/https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1358
