What the U.S. Can Do to Prepare for a War With China

Source: Wall Street Journal (free link).

The writer’s conclusion makes sense to me:

The U.S. military isn’t behind the curve in some grand transformation in warfare. It simply can’t employ the combat tools it has so carefully cultivated over the past 30 to 50 years because it has spent that time preparing to fight low-intensity wars, not a major strategic contest with a peer. If stagnation continues, deterrence will fail. So will the prospects for American victory in any major-power conflict.

The idea that the U.S. is some kind of “sleeping giant” that can be awakened to wreak catastrophic harm upon any global enemy is just BS. Worse, it is hubris to ignore such practical warnings.