The American Third Offset Strategy

Prelude to a Military Revolution?

The future LRSO will replace the AGM-86 missile currently in service. Photo - USAF
The future LRSO will replace the AGM-86 missile currently in service. Photo - USAF

The Third Offset Strategy is the United States' response to the military rise of revisionist powers like the People's Republic of China. It aims to overcome the limitations of the RMA (Revolution in Military Affairs) of Information, which in the decades before and after the turn of the century promised us a long-distance, precise and bloodless war, is now a more or less assimilated reality. to a lesser extent by many of the most powerful armies. It is evident that this RMA has changed the way of waging war in many aspects, although its influence is far from what was promised by many of its main defenders during the happy 90s. New developments in autonomous weapons, cyberwar or nanotechnology, for example On the contrary, they represent a more profound change capable of forever changing not only military tactics, doctrine, operations or strategy, but the very concept of war. Developments that the Third Offset Strategy seek to promote and accelerate as much as possible to guarantee US military supremacy.

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