As Americans Go, We Are Non-Practicing

WSJ US-China war games reporting put into proper context

Peter Froehlich
5 min readMar 28, 2023

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Per people familiar with WSJ reporting, building now for months, “The U.S. Is Not Yet Ready for the Era of ‘Great Power’ Conflict”. Analysts point to U.S. military equipment and morale being depleted by lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior admins, red and blue, Obama and Bush, ignored China as a…

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