How America could lose the next big war

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The military brass is often accused of fighting the last war, but a group of retired officials says the U.S. is already flirting with losing the next one.

That’s the grim warning from a commission created by Congress to review the Trump administration’s national defense strategy. The commission has laid out a series of nightmare scenarios, from the Pacific to eastern Europe, where the country could be brought to its knees or cowed into retreat by its top global adversaries.

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