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Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

by Christian Brose

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For generations of Americans, our country has been the world’s dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America’s traditional sources of power are eroding amid the emergence of new technologies and the growing military threat posed by rivals such as China. America is at grave risk of losing a future war.


by Dan Sheehan
by Jim Frederick
By Victor H. Krulak
by T. X. Hammes
by Jane Blair
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
by Charles Henderson
by Ronald K. Culp
by James D. Hornfischer
by Patrick K. O’Donnell
by James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron

Edited by LtCol Merrill L. Bartlett
By Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
By Kim Zetter
By Ian Leslie
By George P. Shultz
By Williamson R. Murray (Ed.) and Alan R. Millet (Ed.)
By Maximilian Uriarte
By Richard Jadick and Thomas Hayden

By Trent Hone
By P.W. Singer
By Pedro Domingos
By Robin L. Hutton

By Jim Mattis and Bing West
By Adm James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) and R. Manning Ancell

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By James Kerr
By Eric Greitens
By Simon Sinek
By Sebastian Junger
By Colin Powell
By Brené Brown
By Charles Duhigg
By Laura Hillenbrand
By Kyle Carpenter and Don Yaeger

By Wayne P. Hughes and Robert Girrier
By Robert D. Kaplan
By Daniel Kahneman
By Jim Collins
By P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman
By Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig
By P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
By Ian T. Brown
By Sandy Woodward and Patrick Robinson
By Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes
By Michael Lewis


Discussion Guides