Former Navy undersecretary and current senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Robert Martinage crafted a response to the Pentagon’s development of a third offset strategy, arguing that a shift toward longer-range and more survivable platforms would be necessary for future conflicts. In his report, “Toward a New Offset Strategy: Exploiting U.S. Long-Term Advantages to Restore U.S. Global Power Projection Capability,” Martinage identifies five key enduring sources of advantage for the United States military: unmanned systems, extended-range…
