Recomand un interviu luat de Octavian Manea lui Robert O. Work, the 31st Deputy Secretary of Defense, pentru Small War Journal.
The Role of Offset Strategies in Restoring Conventional Deterrence
All this activity is typical of great powers, and requires both the United States and its allies to up their strategic games. As a status quo power, the U.S. seeks to achieve comprehensive strategic stability, underwritten by strategic deterrence, conventional deterrence, and competing with, contesting and confronting our rivals while avoiding great power war. All three efforts are required to avoid crisis instability or miscalculations that might lead to armed conflict. As we’ve discussed, while we accept strategic parity, we strive for conventional overmatch. The 3OS aims to convince both China and Russia that any escalation beyond intense peacetime competition would end badly for them.
