US game theory against Russia, China ‘obsolete’: Analyst
Defense Secretary James Mattis' warning that the United States is lagging behind Russia and China militarily is part of a "game theory" which has become "obsolete", says political analyst Michael Burns.
On Friday, Mattis warned of “growing threats” from Russia and China, saying the US military’s advantages over the two countries have eroded in recent years.
The assessment was part of an unclassified summary of the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy Mattis unveiled.
"We face growing threats from revisionist powers as different as China and Russia, nations that seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models,” he said in a speech at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Burns said “the United States simply has no place being a one great power versus Russia and China or anyone else for that matter, we have to learn to get along without thinking of a war between the United States and the other countries.”
“We’re spending a fortune borrowing money, enormous amounts of money to control the world, we can’t do it anymore, so the idea that these defense people say 'we are falling behind Russia and China,' all of that means we’re looking to spend more money on more of these weapons and weaponry systems that really the populations of the three countries do not want,” he told Press TV on Saturday.
“I submit to people listening and reading that the idea of 'they’ve got a new weapon and we don’t have it', etc, etc is just a game theory that’s obsolete,” Burns noted.
President Donald Trump and his administration are concerned that the US military force is being affected by years of budget shortfalls and atrophy.
In December 2017, Trump unveiled a new "America First" national security strategy that named China and Russia as "competition," claiming that the two countries sought to "challenge American power, influence, and interests."
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