A third camp argues that military planning should focus on the most destructive strategies that a potential adversary like China—or Russia, given its large nuclear arsenal—could wield, such as their ability to strike the US homeland with nuclear weapons.21 According to this argument, the United States should first eliminate any vulnerability to the most destructive forms of attack before allocating resources to other goals; America should therefore invest the great bulk of its resources in developing the capability to eliminate or at least reduce the damage the worst forms of attack could
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