Will US or China win the next war? That’s the wrong question to ask

Who will win the next war? That is the question posed on the cover of the latest Foreign Affairs magazine which explores, among other things, the US-China military and technological rivalry. At its core is a clash of strategic philosophies between the US-led order and China’s world view, which has propelled the latter’s rise to the world’s second great power.
The magazine’s contributors reflect a deeply ingrained Western strategic tradition, rooted in liberal realism, that says that the United...