ASP reports are designed to move public debate beyond sound bites to a more thorough and fact-based consideration of critical issues.
DEFENSE ALTERNATIVES: Defending the Globalizing Commons
IN BRIEF
• Redirecting U.S. military forces to an asymmetric-nontraditional threat is misguided.
• The U.S. military is a force that specializes in high-intensity conventional warfare–a form that the United States serves the international community best by dominating.
• The United States should increase its overall national security profile by reducing the size of the “defense” budget and making enhanced investments in other instruments of national power.
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