CSBA "Third Offset" paper

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https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/k...ARROqPZnT6hEnD7WHBTHixsZWyUImtDImnI-eD3FDXDa4
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Achieving these goals should also keep rivals on guard and in check. According to former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy:

If the U.S. military had the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of China’s military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours, Chinese leaders might think twice before, say, launching a blockade or invasion of Taiwan; they would have to wonder whether it was worth putting their entire fleet at risk.
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Not only would this enhance conventional deterrence by denial, insofar as China would be unable to conduct a brute force assault or count on militarized economic coercion, but the ability to wipe out expensive and prestigious assets such as modern submarines and surface combatants could have the added bonus of contributing to conventional deterrence by punishment.

Project Convergence may realize a geniune Revolution in Military Affairs and Net Centric Warfare, but what if one runs out of missiles and PGMs, technologies such as the ERCA and SLRC artillery are the only fallbacks
 
Only three Wedgetails?
This isn't a third offset, its just capability trimming.
Integration across allies seems odd, its not like we've haven't had 70 years of NATO to show us the path. Talk of an EU Army sent us scurrying away.
I increasingly wonder if cyber warfare really does sit within the military sphere, could it better be done by a separate organisation?
 
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British “Third Offset???”

https://www.defensenews.com/global/...military/?mc_cid=57567bf3d1&mc_eid=307947a252
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“Our authoritarian rivals see the strategic context as a continuous struggle in which nonmilitary and military instruments are used unconstrained by any distinction between peace and war. These regimes believe that they are already engaged in an intense form of conflict that is predominantly political rather than kinetic,” he said. “Their way of warfare is strategic, it is synchronized and systematic, and our response must be too.”

Carter said. “Some industrial-age capabilities will increasingly have to meet their sunset to create the space for capabilities needed for sunrise. The trick is how you find a path through the night. We know this will require us to embrace combinations of information-centric technologies. But predicting these combinations will be challenging."

strong but necessary
 
Battle Force 2045 is Esper's baby, and he's just been fired. The plan has not been presented to Congress yet because the SecDef was waiting for the White House to endorse it, which seems unlikely now.
 
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