2022 National Defense Strategy released

[gearhog]

The 2022 National Defense Strategy was released today:

https://www.defense.gov/National-Defense-Strategy/

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Russia as an Acute Threat. Even as the PRC poses the Department’s pacing challenge, recent events underscore the acute threat posed by Russia. Contemptuous of its neighbors’ independence, Russia’s government seeks to use force to impose border changes and to reimpose an imperial sphere of influence. Its extensive track record of territorial aggression includes the escalation of its brutal, unprovoked war against Ukraine. Although its leaders’ political and military actions intended to fracture NATO have backfired dramatically, the goal remains. Russia presents serious, continuing risks in key areas. These include nuclear threats to the homeland and U.S. Allies and partners; long-range cruise missile threats; cyber and information operations; counterspace threats; chemical and biological weapons (CBW); undersea warfare; and extensive gray zone campaigns targeted against democracies in particular. Russia has incorporated these capabilities and methods into an overall strategy that, like the PRC’s, seeks to exploit advantages in geography and time backed by a mix of threats to the U.S. homeland and to our Allies and partners.

Although diverging interests and historical mistrust may limit the depth of their political and military cooperation, the PRC and Russia relationship continues to increase in breadth. Either state could seek to create dilemmas globally for the Joint Force in the event of U.S. engagement in a crisis or a conflict with the other.

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Strategic Competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security is the PRC’s coercive and increasingly aggressive endeavor to refashion the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to suit its interests and authoritarian preferences. The PRC seeks to undermine U.S. alliances and security partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region, and leverage its growing capabilities, including its economic influence and the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) growing strength and military footprint, to coerce its neighbors and threaten their interests. The PRC’s increasingly provocative rhetoric and coercive activity towards Taiwan are destabilizing, risk miscalculation, and threaten the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait. This is part of a broader pattern of destabilizing and coercive PRC behavior that stretches across the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and along the Line of Actual Control. The PRC has expanded and modernized nearly every aspect of the PLA, with a focus on offsetting U.S. military advantages. The PRC is therefore the pacing challenge for the Department.

While the content isn't surprising, the escalation in language, tone, and specifics from 2018 National Defense Strategy is.

https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf

The trend line continues to reinforce the Thucydides Trap theory.

[Guardian]

Good thing one of our goals is dealing with climate change.

Good weapons school topic for Tanker WIC.

[herkbum]

Haven’t read it. I read somewhere that the -15s are being pulled out of Kadena and will be replaced with a rotational schedule. Was this in this NDS?


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[FLEA]

22 minutes ago, herkbum said:

Haven’t read it. I read somewhere that the -15s are being pulled out of Kadena and will be replaced with a rotational schedule. Was this in this NDS?


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Well admittedly I haven't read the NDS yet but that would be a really tactical level thing to be in the NDS. Usually individual unit deployment falls under GFM and regional plans. 

[dream big]

1 hour ago, herkbum said:

Haven’t read it. I read somewhere that the -15s are being pulled out of Kadena and will be replaced with a rotational schedule. Was this in this NDS?


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Didn’t see it in the NDS but that’s definitely happening. Not a bad “deployment” minus the curfew. 

[Boomer6]

9 hours ago, dream big said:

Didn’t see it in the NDS but that’s definitely happening. Not a bad “deployment” minus the curfew. 

Others that have been stuck there for the duration of covid would disagree.

[Biff_T]

9 hours ago, Boomer6 said:

Others that have been stuck there for the duration of covid would disagree.

You get to watch the banana show and explore whisper alley.   Sounds like a fun time for a deployment.  Lol. 

[Clark Griswold]

Net Assessment episode on subject

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/net-assessment/id1437812041?i=1000584195554

Good discussion


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