Dr. Mara Karlin has served in national security roles under five US secretaries of defense and is the author of the book Building Militaries in Fragile States. She explains how this objective has become such an important feature of US strategy, and discusses why it's so important and so difficult.
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China is increasingly labeled America's "pacing threat" by US national security leaders. That makes it more important than ever to understand China with an...