Offset Strategy Focuses on Deterring Great Powers, Work Says

Military reasoning now defines U.S. foreign relations, which are all about deterrence.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Offset Strategy Focuses on Deterring Great Powers, Work Says

By Cheryl Pellerin

DoD News, Defense Media Activity

SIMI VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 4, 2016 — Russia and China are rising in importance among the state powers that occupy the attention of Defense Department officials these days, and deterring those nations is the entire focus of the Pentagon’s third offset strategy, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said here yesterday. http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1019523/offset-strategy-focuses-on-deterring-great-powers-work-says