If the United States develops a new, defensive way of war that is focused less on projecting military power than on countering the ability of others to do so, we could create the same dilemmas for our competitors that we are facing. In this way, emerging technologies could be tailwinds rather than headwinds. We could achieve the more limited, defensive goal of denying military dominance to China by creating the same kinds of anti-access and area denial predicaments for China that it has been creating for us.
