Heritage Foundation researchers harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to argue in a new report that the U.S. is not prepared for a war with China. 

“We believe a war is coming,” says Rob Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security at the D.C. think tank. “We believe we are not prepared for it. We have proven we’re not prepared for it.”

This weakness actually “incentivizes the Chinese,” Greenway told The Daily Signal. 

Greenway and his team at Heritage used artificial intelligence to simulate an extended conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific, in order to identify vulnerabilities for both the U.S. and China. The report also provides recommendations to the U.S. government. 

Data collection and analysis for the 375-page report, titled “TIDALWAVE,” took about a year. 

“No one has done this before because it’s such a heavy lift,” said Greenway, who also served on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council in the president’s first........

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