The soft-pedal rollout of the National Defense Strategy—a Friday-night email to press as the Washington, D.C., area braced for a crippling snowstorm—has experts wondering whether there’s an implementation plan to go with it. So you don't have a lot of guidance for force design and development here. “Essentially, what this strategy almost sets up for me are two parallel force structures, right? Those might be a tough sell to Congress, she added, based on how much recent defense authorizations and appropriations have focused on competition with China. “There was no sort of context or specificity about what the U.S. is going to do…and what our force looks like as a result of this.”