The U.S military simply cannot do all it is expected to do with diminishing and decaying resources. But that’s what Washington is expecting from the Pentagon.
Freedom House reports “an overall drop in freedom for the ninth consecutive year,” with 61 countries suffering declines in freedom and only 33 registering gains.
China's goal: to control the resource-rich South and East China Seas, carve out a Chinese sphere of influence, and shove the United States out of the Western Pacific.