The author, Christian Brose, worked closely as an aide to Senator John McCain, and therefore is well situated to write knowledgeably about the current and future challenges facing the military forces of the United States. The result is a profoundly challenging and important book that should be required reading for defense scholars and military officers. Brose offers a full-throated critique of the existing structures of American military forces, the acquisition systems that supply those forces, and the established assumptions that have guided U.S. defense policy through a historically abnormal period of American geopolitical dominance. He argues forcefully that those established ways of doing business already are failing, and that they threaten to fail catastrophically amid the foreseeable return of great-power tensions and possible conflict, with Russia to some degree, but more importantly with China.
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