Sputnik — ‘Infinite Game’: US Army White Paper Reveals Plans for New Field of ‘Narrative Competition’

The US State Department last year unveiled a multi-decade plan for a struggle against China at home and abroad similar to the US approach to the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War. Other declassified documents have shown that while they publicly deny it, in private, US officials see it as another struggle between capitalism and socialism.

In great power competition with Russia and China, the US Army is going to be asked to pull a larger weight than in past conflicts. According to a new white paper, the service will have a “critical” role in cultivating support and dependency on the US by its regional partners and keep them away from Chinese or Russian influence....

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‘Infinite Game’: US Army White Paper Reveals Plans for New Field of ‘Narrative Competition’

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