Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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How would the U.S. handle two military crises at the same time? Western military experts and strategists told Simon Shuster that there is no clear plan for a theoretical two-front war against Russia and China.

“Most of them expressed bewilderment and a bit of shame about how little has been done in recent years to study this risk in detail,” he writes.

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