Ensure the ability to produce and deploy more military power than the enemy, protect this capability, and use the resulting military power to attack an adversary’s ability to do the same. Simple, but difficult. Technophiles will spill immeasurable amounts of ink writing of the need for American investment in artificial intelligence, hypersonics, and other new technology. The brutal truth is none of this technological overmatch matters if America can’t build enough of it, sustain it, or get it to the fight in the first place.