.except that the one nation in the world with the capability of taking
advantage of that paradigm shift is... well, the US, which is currently
redesigning the entire US military to take that jump.

Unfortunately not,the new paradigm shift favors scientificaly and
technologically savvy nations, not the nations with the existing defense
infrastructure.
In other words "advanced nations" will benefit from the paradigm shift,not
"advanced countries".
US has to do much more than preparing population for paradigm change by using
PSYOPs.