America’s Hard Power Must Get Harder | by Todd G. Buchholz & Michael Mindlin - Project Syndicate

America’s Hard Power Must Get Harder

By Todd G. Buchholz & Michael Mindlin, Project Syndicate | May 14, 2025The military calculus that defined American supremacy for decades has quietly been inverted, handing China a potentially decisive advantage in any future war. American leaders must wake up and make the investments needed to catch up in three key areas. SAN DIEGO – In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford gets his biggest laugh when a desert assassin twirls a scimitar with me…

America’s Hard Power Must Get Harder | by Todd G. Buchholz & Michael Mindlin - Project Syndicate

The military calculus that defined American supremacy for decades has quietly been inverted, handing China a potentially decisive advantage in any future war. American leaders must wake up and make the investments needed to catch up in three key areas.