Brown and Singh’s DIUx report was soon in the hands of Gen. Paul Selva, who held the vice chairman post at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the job once occupied by James Cartwright. General Selva had encouraged the study and used it to sound the alarm inside the Pentagon. But the report arrived in the early days of the Trump presidency, and rather than serve as a call for the United States to think in Chinese terms about how best to invest in research and development—and how to integrate those investments with defense projects—the report became another excuse for Trump’s calls for protectionism.
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