The conventional wisdom in official Washington is that the United States needs to prepare for a potential war with China, either in order to “win” in the event of a conflict or to deter war by convincing Beijing that the U.S. could prevail in such a scenario.
Such is the thrust of a recent piece in Politico entitled “The Pentagon is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America Might Lose).” As the title suggests, the piece spends the bulk of its time amplifying the views of Pentagon officials, ex-military leaders and analysts at arms contractor funded think tanks to the effect that America has either been a asleep at the wheel and/or too distracted by the war on terror to adequately prepare for what the Pentagon now calls the “pacing threat” posed by China.
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