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US Army bracing for budget hit next year 5 hours ago A group of Army Reserve Soldiers from the 76th Operational Response Command move between buildings after conducting building clearing operations during an urban assault mission on Camp Williams, Utah, April 16. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell/U.S Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is bracing for a possible large budget cut in fiscal 2022, a defense official told Defense News. The service is preparing contingencies should it face...

China Task Force]? "Many people have not heard of the China Strategy Working Group [China Task Force][3] According to the U.S. Department of Defense website, on March 1st, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued an action order to the China Strategy Working Group.[4] The group was set up by President Biden. He ordered the group to start working immediately. The group is mandated to give a complete and detailed strategy report in four months. "According to the Department of Defense spokesperson...

By   Paul McLeary on April 07, 2021 at 5:19 PM President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris announcing the China Task Force at the Pentagon WASHINGTON: The Biden administration will release the topline numbers for its fiscal 2022 budget request on Friday, setting the stage for the new team to begin defending the administration’s first budget. Full details of the federal budget aren’t expected until later this spring, but the overall budget target for each department will give lawmakers and t...

Trying to deal with individual issues on their merits will be tricky. By April 06, 2021 Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi, center, and China’s State Councilor Wang Yi, second from left, speak at the opening session of US-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/Pool via AP Advertisement Joseph R. Biden has now been U.S. president for more than two months. His policies appear to be aimed above all ...

Print this article Containing China and revitalizing strained alliances are the two main objectives of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s first overseas trip to the critical Indo-Pacific region, but he will also try to draw India closer to the United States, said defense officials and experts. Hoping to rebound from Trump-era quarrels over basing agreements in Japan and Korea, Austin declared he will embrace a defense posture that leverages partners and allies that share the U.S. goal of a fre...

The Biden administration will form a task force to deal with major cyberattacks that Microsoft claimed were linked to China, which some Western media are also hyping that the attacks were carried out by a group of Chinese hackers backed by the Chinese government.

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) US efforts to counter China militarily raise the risk of "stumbling into a cold war," the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee says. "We need to embrace containment and deterrence," Rep. Adam Smith said last week. House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith warned Friday that any notion of building a military force to rival Chinas should be replaced with a strategy based on deterrence and dialogue in order to avoid war. "Im worr...

Although he touched upon dozens of topics at his news conference on Sunday, few would doubt that State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi was using the opportunity to signal to the United States that it should act to follow up on the agreement reached between leaders of the two countries in their phone call last month.

By   Thomas Spoehr on March 05, 2021 at 10:20 AM President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris announcing the China Task Force at the Pentagon President Joe Biden has released his interim National Security Strategic Guidance to “convey my vision for how America will engage with the world.”  Unfortunately, much of the document’s 24 pages are dedicated to topics such as voting rights, clean energy, climate change, and racial justice that are only tangentially related to national security. St...

The U.S. military must invest heavily in high-tech radar, space-based weapons detection systems, long-range artillery and a host of other 21st-century capabilities to keep at bay an increasingly aggressive China, the Pentagon told congressional leaders this week in a sweeping new funding proposal.