Moneyball Military: An Alternative Force – Affordable, Achievable, Able To Deter China | History Lab

Could Beijing be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027 or even before, as some U.S. leaders have suggested? Can the U.S. military deter Chinese aggression with our traditional force -- composed of a small number of large, expensive, manned platforms that our industrial base is struggling to produce? How would we generate an alternative force composed of very large numbers of smaller, low-cost, autonomous systems that can be fielded in this period of maximum vulnerability -- a Moneyball Military? Can the Pentagon's central planning system, dating to the 1960s and still operating, deliver the military forces we need to maintain deterrence? Or do we need a completely alternative process? At a time of unprecedented disruption to the U.S. military, how can our defense enterprise disrupt itself in time to matter? The Hoover Institution hosted "Moneyball Military: An Alternative Force – Affordable, Achievable, Able to Deter China, A Case Study in the Application of History to Contemporary Policy Debates," on September 26 at 4:00 pm PDT. The event featured speaker Christian Brose, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Stephen Kotkin, director of the Hoover History Lab, moderated the discussion. To read the case study, click here - https://www.hoover.org/research/moneyball-military-affordable-achievable-and-capable-alternative-deter-china. For more information on the History Lab, visit - https://www.hoover.org/history-lab