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Missiles. we know that they have -- since the beginning of this launched more than 1,000. but i don't have an exact number. >> secondly, does the pentagon still consider russia a near peer competitor? >> i think you can take away from what we talked about yesterday when we released the budget and we talk about russia as an acute threat. and that's how we're looking at russia right now. >> but that's not the same as what you've been saying, near peer competitors russia and china and now we're hearing acute threat. so has it changed in the pentagon's -- >> we consider russia as an acute threat b...

That's what they are saying. beijing often talks tough, but they have to be closely watching what happens with ukraine, because they have their eye on taiwan. >> beijing may talk tough. are they in a position to act tough? they have revolutionized their military in the last 40 years. they are nearly a peer competitor on a military basis. so the notion that we could take on beijing, as well as russia simultaneously is far-fetched. but i think they're watching it and saying this is unfair. because they don't believe in universal human rights. their position is, anything that happens inside of ch...

Top American generals have repeatedly expressed fears about the speed of development of the latest generation of military technologies in the main rival countries for the US - China and Russia.

Essay by the scholarist and famous realist who captured lawmakers engaging china the last four decades. he predicts our active encouragement of a peer competitor will lead to a new cold war that could get hot and even nuclear. but realist logic only gets you so far. the high priest of realism, kenneth waltz, often predicted once the cold war ended and japan had gotten strong, it would throw off the shackles of dependence on america for security and acquire nuclear weapons. he himself predicted in 1990 as the cold war ended, nato would collapse and europe would become a cog fckpit of warring st...

Last four decades. he predicts our active encouragement of a peer competitor will lead to a new cold war that could get hot and even nuclear. but realist logic only gets you so far. the high priest of realism, kenneth waltz, often predicted once the cold war ended and japan had gotten strong, it would throw off the shackles of dependence on america for security and acquire nuclear weapons. he himself predicted in 1990 as the cold war ended, nato would collapse and europe would become a cockpit of warring states as it had been before the cold war. he believed many european states, chiefly germa...