🧵To all who follow me here: I wish you a Happy New Year. May 2024 be better than 2023. Most of all, I hope that in 2024 we finally recognize that it's not enough to respond to crises, but that we must shape the world in a way that favors freedom and prosperity. My wishes: 1/7
There are just months before we elect our new President. In this critical election year in the US, we need to stop using the current normative language about "defending the rules-based international order" and shift to a straightforward conversation about national interest. 2/7
in 2024 we need to speak plainly about which theaters remain critical to American security and prosperity, what our alliances should look like, the force posture we need and the resources we must generate to ensure our military can deter and, if need defeat, our adversaries. 3/7
In 2024 we need to relearn the basics of hard power, with national security priorities front and center in our economic policy. We need to rebuild America's defense industrial base, with redundancies in the system so we can produce weapons and munitions fast and at scale. 4/7
To continue to pour money & technology into #China in the name of "globalization and "complex interdependence" is strategic myopia of the first order. For decades we have pretended that free markets are synonymous with wholesale technology transfer. In 2024 this must stop.5/7
My hope is that in 2024 we will revisit the basics of national power: a strong manufacturing base, excellence in R&D, a strong military, and last but not least social cohesion without which democracies can't mobilize in a crisis. We need plain talk about the dangers we face. 6/7
To confront the Sino/Russian/Iranian/N. Korean axis we must restore the centrality of individual citizenship in our democracies. We need to relearn that citizenship is not only about rights but also obligations--especially when it comes to national security and defense. 7/7
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