The United States is hardly standing still. In response to the emerging capabilities of what is now called a “great power/peer level” competitor, the U.S. military is making a major shift in focus, strategy, and weapons. The U.S. Marines, for instance, are going through a transformation, in the words of its new force design, away from two decades of fighting on land against “violent extremists in the Middle East.” Instead, it is to become an agile naval expeditionary force able to move with great speed and in dispersed fashion from island to island in the Pacific in order to neutralize a
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