U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a directive to speed up work to develop the military force to deter China and address Pentagon difficulties in carrying out a years-old strategy that called Beijing a principal threat
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a directive to speed up work to develop the military forces to deter China and address Pentagon difficulties in carrying out a years-old strategy that called Beijing a principal threat.
The directive, issued Wednesday, is based on the recommendation of a high-level Pentagon task force that identified a “say-do” gap between the Defense Department’s objective to counter Chinese aggression and its efforts to meet that goal, a senior Defense official said. That task force was led by Ely Ratner, a former top aide to President Biden who has been named to serve as the Pentagon’s top official on Asia-Pacific affairs.
Many of the task force’s recommendations remain classified, and the Pentagon released few details about its work, which involved a four-month review by senior civilian and military officials.gathers momentum, threatening the dominance the U.S. has held in East Asia and the Western Pacific.
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