The Erosion of Strategic Long-Term Planning in the United States (warontherocks.com)

• Systemic reduction of deep-time strategic analysis capabilities.
• Political preference for immediacy over long-term endurance.
• Loss of critical independent assessment in military planning.

"The United States is experiencing a decline in strategic temporal perception, characterized by institutional downsizing and a political shift toward short-termism. The dismantling of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment serves as a key indicator of how bureaucratic streamlining has inadvertently sacrificed long-term comparative analysis, undermining the nation's capacity for sustained statecraft against emerging adversaries."