Better Buying is Key to Russia-China Strategy

By Robert J. Eatinger, Jr.

Bob has 35 years of experience practicing law in the fields of national security, intelligence, and international law. He is a solo practitioner at Robert J. Eatinger, Jr., PLLC, practicing federal law with a national security and intelligence law focus and the founding Principal of SpyLaw Consulting, LLC. Bob retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2015 where he was the Senior Deputy General Counsel. He served as CIA’s Acting General Counsel from October 2013 to March 2014.  Before being named the Senior Deputy General Counsel, Bob had held senior operational law positions and been chief of CIA’s litigation division.  Bob also served on active duty in the United States Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and retired in 2013 as a Captain with 30 years of combined active and reserve service.  

Cipher Brief Expert Robert Eatinger is former Deputy General Counsel and Acting General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency and retired Captain from the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corp with a combined 30 years of active duty and reserve service.

EXPERT OPINION — China seeks to challenge US technological supremacy and is investing heavily in R&D. According to a recent report by the Center for A New American Security, Beijing “strives to achieve technological parity, and eventually technological dominance.” Russia, too, has been flexing its technology muscles, announcing in December that it has deployed a hypersonic weapon. The U.S. must respond to these challenges or risk losing its military advantage.

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