23 January 2025

Adapting to Big Change: The New Challenges of Modern Warfare

Wallace Gregson

“Big Change” is upon us, and the rate is accelerating. We must adapt quickly and comprehensively throughout our national security enterprise, including the defense industrial sector. We must learn to be comfortable with continuous change by leading it.

The Challenges in Asia

Asia is home to the biggest challenge to US national defense policy, strategy, and operational concepts.

Our allies primarily form the First Island Chain fronting on the East and South China Seas.

War with China or Russia is not unlikely; it can happen at any time and includes the potential for a near-term major war.

We are in a period of rapid, accelerating, profound changes in geopolitics, economics, and technology, mainly with weapons technology.

We have work to do in our defense industrial base. We are no longer the arsenal of democracy. We had to appeal to our allies to supply Ukraine with artillery ammunition because we could not produce it in the quantities needed.

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