Video Above: How China Could Win a War Against America
By Kris Osborn – Warrior Maven
(Washington, D.C.) As Congress and the military services adjust to and work through specifics related to the most recent budget, responses, concerns and opinions continue to circulate, yet amid all of the prioritization and budget deliberations one thing is clear … the Pentagon is setting its sights on modernization, innovation and a new generation of warfare technologies.
That was the message to Congress from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who explained to lawmakers that the 2022 budget massively supports modernization. He specifically cited that the 2022 budget request “fully funds the departments top priority of nuclear modernization,” and also strongly supports key growth areas such as AI, hypersonics, long-range fires, microelectronics, cyber defense and 5G computer technologies.
Austin explained to the Senate Appropriations Committee that “the pacing challenge posed by China requires the United States to invest in research and fielding of new technologies or new ways of using existing technologies,” as cited in a Pentagon report.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley also emphasized the budget priorities being placed upon numerous efforts to craft a new generation of weapons and technologies in response to a fast-changing and significant threat equation.
“There’s always a balance,” Milley told the senators, according to a Pentagon report. “Previous budgets biased … to the present. This budget starts leaning into the future. And it’s now that we need to pivot because the future — believe it or not — is going to get here someday. And about 10 to 15 years from now, we will be in a world of hurt in the national security geostrategic world, unless we invest in the modernization of the United States military.”
