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China has emerged as an adversary state equipped with world-class military systems.
Russia has turned overtly hostile, contributing to a more challenging international environment for the United States.
The United States' near monopoly on modern military capabilities, such as near real-time sensing and precision strike, has been eliminated.
The United States' military superiority in all domains over any adversary has been lost.
China has built thousands of highly accurate and dangerous ballistic and cruise missiles.
Inexpensive, small unmanned aerial and seagoing vehicles can inflict serious damage on major military platforms like tanks, ships, and aircraft, as demonstrated in the Ukraine conflict.
China's military strategy is designed to exploit the vulnerabilities of the United States' legacy expeditionary and sequential approach to warfare.
China could initiate hostilities, such as an invasion of Taiwan, with only about five days of warning, preventing the U.S. from having months to position its forces.
China's air defenses are too sophisticated, dense, and numerous for the U.S. to defeat using its traditional sequential approach.
The 2018 National Defense Strategy, published by the Pentagon, identifies China as the principal threat to U.S. security.
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is considered the most stressful and plausible scenario for U.S. military planning.
The Replicator initiative aims to buy thousands of inexpensive, smart, and mostly unmanned systems to increase the mass of the U.S. military.