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The United States confronts the most serious and the most challenging threats since the end of World War II. The United States could in short order be drawn into a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries, and it could lose. The current National Defense Strategy (NDS), written in 2022, does not account for ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East and the possibility of a larger war in Asia. Continuing with the current strategy, bureaucratic approach, and level of resources will weaken the United States’ relative position against the gathering, and partnering, threats it faces. In its report, the Commission on the National Defense Strategy recommends a sharp break with the way the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) does business and embraces an “all elements of national power” approach to national security. It recommends spending smarter and spending more across the national security agencies of government.  

Of course more, LOL)) As the Report states:

Insufficient defense production capacity impedes the Joint Force’s ability to deter or prevail in a protracted conflict, especially with China and particularly in terms of munitions. Defense experts have extensively documented that DoD “has long failed to invest adequately in stocks of preferred munitions,” which remains true even after DoD’s efforts to boost munitions production in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. As a result, unclassified public wargames suggest that, in a conflict with China, the United States would largely exhaust its munitions inventories in as few as three to four weeks, with some important munitions (e.g., anti-ship missiles) lasting only a few days. Once expended, replacing these munitions would take years. 

I also have a "secret", while verbiage is popular, the US doesn't have "joint force", because the top which should conduct full C2 (and Operational Control) of ALL armed forces globally doesn't exist in the US. JCS does not have operational control, Commands do. Russian General Staff, however, has it all in every single domain starting from underwater, to ground, to air to space. Not "harmonization", not some politicking but full blown Control. And that, my friends, is a completely different military culture and experience of victories which the US simply doesn't have. You cannot change strategic DNA just because you think you can--doesn't work like this, but who will learn in D.C. and Pentagon about it. I wonder, hm. Larry and I touched on this in our today's podcast, it should come up fairly soon on UTube.