Military

America's military is getting deadly serious about China, Russia, and North Korea

The Third Offset Strategy is about retaining America's lead in military power in the face of potential challenges by Russia, China, North Korea and others. The strategy takes aim at enemy vulnerabilities and weak spots with plans to exploit them in wartime. It leverages existing American strengths, such as the tanks, fighters, and ships that we already have, and uses our technological lead to give them new capabilities.

Just last week, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced a number of new capabilities the U.S. military was funding. Carter is serious about preserving America's technological lead: While the overall defense budget remains roughly flat, the research and development budget will rise for the second year in a row, to $71.4 billion.