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While this emphasis on modernization has been in place for many years, it is now being deliberately stepped up in the Pentagon’s 2023 budget for the clear purpose of implementing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Integrated Deterrence posture. 

What is "integrated deterrence"? It sounds better than leading from behind, which was Obamas version of it, but its not too different from the failed approach of the Obama administration. Like a lot of organizational jargon, "integrated deterrence" is

To dissuade aggression, the U.S. military must continuously persuade its adversaries to doubt their chances of success.

“Acute is a sharper, sort of more immediate word,” said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “I think that's a response to Ukraine, and the fact that this is not a long term challenge, it is immediate [and] happening today.”

The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.

Download the Brief The Issue This brief explores escalation dynamics in China’s gray zone campaign targeting Taiwan based on the results of 20 crisis simulations. CSIS finds that U.S. policymakers face shadow risk in gray zone confrontations: the desire to avoid short-term escalation triggers an increased appetite for risk in future disputes. In other words, deferring U.S.

“Quite often there are ethereal words about a vision of where to go, which is very important,” said Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's former top acquisition official. “But I think that needs to be reduced to what are we going to do? When are we going to do it and who’s going to do it?”

US military appears to be leaning toward a more risky approach as challengers develop means to counter its advantages.

The Biden administration’s strategy for countering China recalls John F. Kennedy’s plan to deter the Soviet Union. But the Biden administration would do well to learn some of the pitfalls that came with Kennedy’s idea of flexible response.