After more than a few delays, the United States has finally released its Missile Defense Review. The document, together with the Nuclear Posture Review and the National Defense Strategy released a year ago, outlines the geostrategic direction of the United States and its national security posture amid an intensifying great power competition with Russia and China. In keeping with the two other reports, the Missile Defense Review, released Jan. 17, envisions the allocation of more resources for projects that would boost Washington in its competition with Moscow and Beijing. Improved missile defense, for instance, could give the United States more options if it succeeds in overcoming technological and budgetary limits, but the shift to yet another dimension of the strategic competition is likely only to exacerbate the arms race and incite mistrust among the great powers.