For the love of all that is holy, the Chinese are not "competitors," they are trying to bury us

"Amid intensifying competition, the military’s role is to maintain and gain warfighting advantages while limiting those of our competitors." See p. 20; ¶ 4.
Competition, give me a break, whatever happened to absolute domination and superiority? Combat is not a competition, it is a horrid and awful fight to the death unless one believes that his enemies simply want to employ you at less than adequate wages, in which case, one can go bowling for dollars or yen and eat boiled rice with rat legs for every meal if one losses.
It is a hackneyed synonym but the purpose of the military is to break things and kill the enemy otherwise there is a lot of b.s. in there carrying over to p.21 that could have been addressed without hiring a Harvard law word-smith.