A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.
Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.
It’s fascinating because both the US and China have major corruption in the higher echelons of their respective militaries that put both at a great disadvantage.
One country has recognized the ill effects of corruption and the other hasn’t.