The quest for asymmetric advantages in a multi-domain environment

Seeking strategic advantages has become a key feature of the great powers’ approach to technology competition. Since Russia and China were both confronted with the same military problem in the 1990s, they chose to pursue a similar strategy that aims to exploit U.S. dependencies and vulnerabilities through the pursuit of asymmetric advantages. As a result, the military balance has shifted, and great power relations have become less stable. Since the technology competition is likely to continue, the United States will have to go back to studying its adversaries, and explore how it can preserve its current strategic advantages and what new advantages might be needed in the future.