Washington’s New Defense Strategy: Keep Russia, China Down
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By F. William Engdahl
Global Research
One thing can be said about the new Pentagon National Defense Strategy document just released under the name of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. It is honest about what the target of US military policy is going forward. Washington military policy is explicitly aimed to keep China and Russia from developing any alternative counter-pole to unchallenged US military and political supremacy. The new document lays this out in no uncertain terms. The details are notable and show the disarray that is Washington today, as its once-firm grip on world power disintegrates.
The document is worth careful reading. In the declassified public version it states at the very introduction,
“Today we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware th...