16 December 2025

America’s Great Enemy Isn’t China or Russia Anymore

Andrew Latham

-Dr. Andrew Latham argues that a federal debt near 100 percent of GDP now acts like “strategic gravity,” pulling resources away from defense and compressing U.S. options before crises even begin.

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-Rising interest costs squeeze the Pentagon, hollow force structure, and weaken the defense-industrial base just as long-term competition with Beijing and Moscow demands stamina and surge capacity.

-Debt also poisons domestic politics, turning foreign policy into a partisan budget fight. The real danger is not sudden collapse, but a slow loss of strategic freedom bought on credit.

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