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The past several years have produced a quiet but consequential shift in how the United States understands, and fails to understand, time. American strategy has gradually weakened through bureaucratic cuts, institutional downgrades, and political incentives that privilege immediacy over endurance and partisanship over long-term statecraft. The temporary elimination of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment last year is particularly emblematic. Established during the Cold War, the Office was designed to provide the Department of Defense with independent, long-term comparative assessments of U.S. and adversary military capabilities. On paper, its dismantling was framed as an exercise in streamlining. In practice, it The post The Age of Unlearning: How Democracies Lost Their Grip on Str