A New National Security Strategy for America

Rather than Continue to Provoke World War III with the Sino-Russian Alliance, the U.S. Should Negotiate an Agreement in Which Both Sides Agree to Stay Out of Each Other's Spheres of Influence.

This article was originally published in The National Interest on October 11, 2021.

There is an increasing threat of a two-front war with Russia and China stemming from their increasing superiority over the United States in terms of nuclear, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and cyber weapons. Despite this increasing US strategic military inferiority, many if not most U.S. policymakers have continued to delude themselves that the U.S. is the strongest military power on Earth, causing them to refuse to devote the resources necessary to rebuild America’s nuclear arsenal, build a comprehensive national missile defense system and harden our electric grid to deter a catastrophic attack on the U.S. homeland by the Sino-Russian military alliance. The time has come for U.S. leaders to discard their idealistic misconception that we live in a unipolar world that is safe and secure in which the US is universally recognized as the most powerful global superpower when the reality is entirely different. As a result of its increasing strategic military inferiority, America faces increasingly stark, limited and uncomfortable choices. America is in desperate need of a new, forward-thinking grand strategy which provides us with a path forward as to how we might be successful in countering, dividing, and disrupting this alliance of two nuclear superpowers against us while at the same time minimizing the risks of a full-scale and, likely, simultaneous conflict with Russia, China and North Korea.