With Biden's National Security Strategy, something's gotta give, writes AustinJDahmer.
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In this sense, the Biden administration’s recently released National Defense Strategy is plagued by inherent contradictions. Along with its parent National Security Strategy, it emphasizes the 2020s as the supposed"decisive decade," particularly in the competition with China, while outlining a plan that sheds military capacity and capability in this decade in order to invest in modernization programs that will bear fruit in the 2030s.
To be sure, there are some redeeming qualities to the new defense strategy, including many continuities from the Trump administration’s document. At its core, the Biden defense strategy clearly prioritizes China over all other threats, including over Russia, even after the Ukraine invasion, optimizes U.S. forces for a denial defense along the first island chain, and maintains the one-war force planning construct. These are prudent, if fairly obvious, choices.
Even more troubling is the profligacy with which the administration has allocated its military resources to Europe over the Indo-Pacific region, particularly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Many of the systems and munitions Washington has provided Kyiv would have substantial utility in a U.S.-China defense planning scenario, and the added production to make up for this provision will have outsize opportunity costs given the anemic capacity of the defense industrial base.
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