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The Reagan-Era Strategy That Could Reignite America’s Technological Power | Michael Sekora
As early as 1989, intelligence officers in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recognized China as the next threat, says former DIA officer and physicist Michael Sekora.
“We identified what [China] was doing to become a superpower faster than any country in history, and we were on track to containment,” Sekora says.
Back in the 1980s, he led a classified Defense Intelligence Agency program called “Project Socrates” that was created under the Reagan administration to determine the cause of U.S. economic and military decline, find a way to reverse it, and outcompete Moscow. Later they turned…
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