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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and his deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks have described China as a "pacing threat" to the United States. [2] Before the creation of the China task force, the US military conducted maneuvers in the South China sea using two aircraft carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. [6]
The meeting, between US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and China’s Minister of National Defense Adm. Dong Jun, is the first face-to-face talks between the two defense chiefs and Austin’s first ...
The most recent incident was Oct. 24, when a Chinese J-11 flew within 10 feet of a U.S. Air Force B-52 over the South China Sea. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command labeled the action as unsafe and ...
The NDS informs another related document, the National Military Strategy (NMS), [a] [b] written by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and signed by its Chairman (CJCS). [7] The NMS and NDS often agree, but since the CJCS's role is to give unfiltered military advice to the government, the NMS is also an opportunity for the CJCS to provide a contrary ...
Force Design was developed after the 2018 National Defense Strategy stated that the military must be prepared for the competition between the United States and China.In June 2017, then-Commandant Robert Neller told Congress that the Marine Corps was not ready to face a peer-adversary. [10]
According to those remarks, U.S. strategy was to pursue nuclear arms restraints with China and Russia, but if China continued on its current trajectory and if Russia exceeds New START limits, the ...
The China Military Power Report (abbr. CMPR), officially the Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China, is an annual report produced by the United States Department of Defense for the United States Congress that provides estimates, forecasts, and analysis of the People's Republic of China (PRC) military and security developments for the previous year.
The US Navy is preparing for possible war by 2027, with China in focus, Adm. Lisa Franchetti said. She outlined a seven-goal plan for the US Navy, including having 80% of its forces ready to fight.