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Indeed, as we’ve seen with the People’s Republic of China, alternative systems are often rife with corruption, riddled with inefficiency, and better at stealing intellectual property than generating it.
Because ingenuity and creativity thrive the most when they’re enabled and surrounded by free minds, free markets, and free people — not when they’re forced to toe the party line.
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Also, we have had success. We’ve had success in systems like ARRW. The Army has had success. And now, the question really is what makes sense to integrate to the concepts that we have? And I think I’d leave my answer with that final thought, which is the way in which the Chinese, for example, or the Russians use hypersonic weapons is not how we would use hypersonic weapons.
The Russians in fact, have used hypersonic weapons to very little effect in Ukraine. And I do think that’s a good example of how we can get overly exercised in an arms race mentality around new system use. What we — not that those technologies aren’t relevant, we obviously are invested in hypersonics ourselves. We have a program we want to pursue, but we’re pursuing it in advance- in order to advance the warfighter concepts that we have out there, not to their own end. And I do think we are on the plan to do that. Resourcing will make a big difference.
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Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Speaker: Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Format: Verbal Remarks
China Policy Research 