Adam Smith actually said...

Their economic model, I think, can best be described as kleptocracy, basically the folks at the top control all the money.

The Defense Department needs to invest boldly in new concepts of operations and the capabilities to carry them out.

Put most directly, Russia and China are now aggressively pushing an alternative view of the world, and of governance.

That alternative view is based on autocracy, the idea that democracy doesn't work, freedom doesn't work, you need to have a strong man.