A heightened sensitivity to the importance of tradeoffs between today’s important capabilities and obtaining tomorrow’s vital priorities reflects a renewed focus by national security leaders on the interrelationship between the national and global economy, resource management, and strategy.
President Putin made three foundational assumptions in launching his war against Ukraine that should have been correct but were not. First, Putin assumed the invasion of Ukraine would be a quick and easy fight. Second, he assumed the world would denounce the invasion but tacitly allow it. Third, Putin assumed the war would deter NATO expansion.
