US Strategic Weakness Grows Amid Cuts to Long-Term Defense Planning

The dismantling and subsequent downgrading of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment last year marked a symbolic blow to America's long-term strategic thinking. Initially eliminated under the pretense of streamlining, the office — once a cornerstone of decades-spanning military analyses — was restored in a diminished form, signaling a broader erosion of foresight across U.S. national security structures. Cuts at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the downgrading of cybersec