Exceptional (40 page)

“stability operations”:
Ibid., p. 6.

“end today's wars”:
Ibid., cover letter.

“in our capabilities”
: The Honorable Mac Thornberry, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee, letter to the Honorable Tom Price, M.D., Chairman, House Budget Committee, February 21, 2015.

“currently have fielded”:
Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Frank Kendall, Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services, “A Case for Reform: Improving DOD's Ability to Respond to the Pace of Technological Change,” January 28, 2015.

“very uncomfortable”
: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, interview,
Fox News Sunday,
January 12, 2015,
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/dempsey-cyber-is-the-only-domain-in-which-us-has-peer-competitors
.

“to any country”:
Robert Joseph, “Second to One,”
National Review,
July 2, 2012,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/304310/second-one-robert-g-joseph
.

nuclear force structure:
Former undersecretary of defense for policy Eric Edelman, Testimony, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, “The New START Treaty Benefits and Risks,” June 24, 2010.

America's deterrence capability:
Ibid.

already below 700:
Ibid.

defense interceptors:
Former undersecretary of state for arms control and international security Robert Joseph, Testimony, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, “The New START Treaty Benefits and Risks,” June 24, 2010.

“no way, no how”
: Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher, Special Press Briefing, March 29, 2010,
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/03/139176.htm
.

language in the treaty:
Robert Joseph testimony, June 24, 2010.

“current and planned”:
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation, “Ballistic Missile Defense and New START Treaty,” Fact Sheet, April 21, 2010,
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/140624.htm
.

existing warheads:
Ibid.

“ ‘new military capabilities' ”:
2010 Nuclear Posture Review, U.S. Department of Defense, April 2010, p. xiv,
http://www.defense.gov/npr/docs/2010%20Nuclear%20Posture%20Review%20Report.pdf
.

“nuclear postures”:
President Barack Obama, Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2013,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/19/remarks-president-obama-brandenburg-gate-berlin-germany
.

5,000 kilometers:
Treaty Between the United States and the USSR on Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF),
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/trty/102360.htm
.

“will pay a terrible price”:
Michael Anton, “Our Nuclear Posture: Under the Obama Administration? Supine,”
Weekly Standard,
April 19, 2010,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/our-nuclear-posture?page=2
.

“top priority”:
President Barack Obama, Remarks to the Australian Parliament, November 17, 2011,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/17/remarks-president-obama-australian-parliament
.

“it can't happen”:
Zachary Fryer-Briggs, “DOD Official: Asia Pivot ‘Can't Happen' Due to Budget Pressures,”
DefenseNews,
March 4, 2014,
http://archive.defensenews.com/article/20140304/DEFREG02/303040022/DoD-Official-Asia-Pivot-Can-t-Happen-Due-Budget-Pressures
.

“can and will continue”:
Ibid.

by double digits:
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, “2014 Report to Congress,” November 2014, p. 11,
http://origin.www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/annual_reports/Executive%20Summary.pdf
.

“maneuverable warheads”:
Ibid.

hypersonic missile:
Bill Gertz, “China Conducts Fourth Test of Wu-14 Strike Vehicle,”
Washington Free Beacon,
June 11, 2015,
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-conducts-fourth-test-of-wu-14-strike-vehicle/
.

“U.S. and allied vessels”:
Bill Gertz, “ONI Reveals Massive Chinese Naval Buildup,”
Washington Free Beacon,
April 10, 2015,
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/oni-reveals-massive-chinese-naval-buildup/
.

the Indian Ocean:
Ibid.

by 2020:
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, “2014 Report to Congress,” p. 12,
http://origin.www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/annual_reports/Executive%20Summary.pdf
.

bolster these claims:
Gordon Lubold and Adam Entous, “U.S. Says Beijing Is Building Up South China Sea Islands,”
Wall Street Journal,
May 9, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-beijing-building-up-south-china-sea-islands-1431109387
.

two thousand acres:
Ibid.

U.S. military flights:
“U.S. Warns China Not To Challenge Military Flights Over South China Sea,”
FoxNews.com
,
May 22, 2015,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/22/us-warns-china-not-to-challenge-military-flights-over-south-china-sea/
.

drone force:
Zachary Keck, “China Is Building 42,000 Military Drones: Should America Worry?”
National Interest,
May 10, 2015,
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/china-building-42000-military-drones-should-america-worry-12856
.

jamming communications:
Bill Gertz, “Chinese Military Using Jamming Against U.S. Drones,”
Washington Free Beacon,
May 22, 2015,
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-military-using-jamming-against-u-s-drones/print/
.

rocket-propelled sea mines:
Michael Pillsbury,
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
(New York: Henry Holt, 2015), p. 154.

tactical high-energy laser weapons:
Ibid.

“weakest point”:
Ibid., p. 138.

of twenty years:
Ibid., p. 154.

U.S. private sector:
Ellen Nakashima, “Confidential Report Lists US Weapons Systems Designs Compromised by Chinese Cyberspies,”
Washington Post,
May 27, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
.

Twenty-two million people:
General Michael Hayden, “Why Can't We Play This Game?”
Cipher Brief,
June 24, 2015,
http://www.thecipherbrief.com/articles/why-cant-we-play-game
.

“and their tools”:
Ibid.

“country in the world”:
Pillsbury,
The Hundred-Year Marathon,
p. 151.

“freedom of action”:
David R. Sands, “New Russia-China Alliance Latest Diplomatic, Strategic Blow to Obama,”
Washington Times,
April 30, 2015,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/30/china-russia-alliance-challenges-us-western-domina/?page=all
.

“might more accurately be called”:
Bret Stephens, “The Meltdown,”
Commentary,
September 1, 2014,
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-meltdown/
.

“eating the seed corn”:
Former undersecretary of defense for policy Eric Edelman, Testimony, Senate Armed Services Committee, February 10, 2015.

“live on our knees”:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to the Special Convocation of the University of Oxford,” June 19, 1941, American Presidency Project,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16131
.

“but first”:
President John F. Kennedy, Remarks at Breakfast of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, November 22, 1963, American Presidency Project,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9538
.

“welfare of this nation”:
President Harry S. Truman, Address to a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947,
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
.

“success of liberty”:
President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961,
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx
.

“No foe in the field”:
General Jim Mattis (Ret.), Testimony, Senate Armed Services Committee, January 27, 2015.

$661 billion:
Department of Defense FY2012 Budget Proposal, February 14, 2011,
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2011/0211_fiscalbudget/SUMMARY_OF_THE_DOD_FISCAL_2012_BUDGET_PROPOSAL_with_Charts_Updated_1710_02.14.2011.pdf
.

“shortchanges innovation”:
Ibid., p. 4.

“undue emphasis on budgetary constraints”:
National Defense Panel Review of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review, p. 3,
http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/Ensuring-a-Strong-U.S.-Defense-for-the-Future-NDP-Review-of-the-QDR_0.pdf
.

“directed-energy weapons”:
Ibid., pp. 40–45.

left ourselves vulnerable:
General Michael Hayden, “Why Can't We Play This Game?”
Cipher Brief,
June 24, 2015,
http://www.thecipherbrief.com/articles/why-cant-we-play-game
.

nation's electric grid:
Henry F. Cooper and Peter Vincent Pry, “The Threat to Melt the Electtric Grid,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 30, 2015,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-threat-to-melt-the-electric-grid-1430436815
.

“all else rests”:
Mark Helprin, “Indefensible Defense,”
National Review,
June 11, 2015.

sixty vetted candidates:
Austin Wright and Philip Ewing, “Ash Carter's Unwelcome News: only 60 Syrian rebels fit for training, Politico, July 7, 2015,
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/ash-carter-syrian-rebel-training-119812.html
.

near-term requirements:
General Jack Keane, Testimony, Senate Armed Services Committee, January 27, 2015.

Thousands of advisors:
Jack Keane and Danielle Pletka, “An American-Led Coalition Can Defeat ISIS,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 24, 2014,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-keane-and-danielle-pletka-an-american-led-coalition-can-defeat-isis-in-iraq-1408919270
.

25 percent fewer surge forces:
Ibid.

prevent those attacks:
General Mike Hayden, Remarks at National Press Club, January 23, 2006,
https://www.press.org/speakers/transcripts-2006
.

recruiter for ISIS:
Thomas Joscelyn, “Gitmo Poet Now Recruiting for Islamic State,”
Weekly Standard,
November 19, 2014,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gitmo-poet-now-recruiting-islamic-state_819587.html#
.

“successful regional power”:
President Obama, Interview, NPR, December 29, 2014,
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/29/372485968/transcript-president-obamas-full-npr-interview
.

“threat to our security”:
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, “Defense Strategy for the 1990s,” January 1993, p. 8,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/naarpr_Defense.pdf
.

took force off the table:
Tamar Pileggi, “Obama: There Is No Military Option to Stop Iran,”
The Times of Israel
, June 1, 2015,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-a-deal-only-way-to-stop-iran-no-military-option
.

“make more concessions”:
“Obama's False Iran Choice,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 15, 2015,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-false-iran-choice-1437001404
.

“ballistic-missile attack”:
Robert Joseph and Eric Edelman, “Here's the Difference Between How Obama and Reagan Handled Nuke Negotiations,”
National Review,
April 3, 2015.

protect us from attack:
Ibid.