Thought leaders and foreign policy veterans can’t stop themselves from writing about the new era of great power competition with China and America’s lack of a grand strategy. Gen. James Mattis wrote about it in 2015. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton penned an opinion piece about it earlier this year.
Jonathan Schanzer is the executive director at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Follow him on Twitter @JSchanzer.
Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum.
