Thanks to Maria Bartiromo for having me on Fox Business Network this morning to discuss the attack by Iran on Israel and implications for the U.S. national security strategy and defense budgets.
Iran’s latest actions should force Congressional policymakers to do their jobs and arm DOD and our defense industrial base with the funding and tools required to meet the ever-increasing threats facing the U.S., our allies, and our partners. The full supplemental for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan is must-pass legislation before the Congress takes another recess next week. Israel is under attack, Ukraine has run out of key munitions, and China continues to saber-rattle against Taiwan.
In addition, the proposed FY 2025 defense topline is simply not sufficient. Arbitrary spending caps enacted under the Fiscal Responsibility Act are hindering the U.S.’s ability to enhance deterrence in this era of great power competition. DOD's senior civilian leaders have stated publicly that the future years defense plan needs to be increased.
We also need to update the national defense strategy to build capability in government and industry for the ability to deter and, if needed, to fight a two war strategy on a near simultaneous basis. Congress should lift these arbitrary caps, write a serious national defense spending plan with a new two-war strategy as the basis, and pass the 2025 budget on time.
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PDF Leadership and Policy Innovation--From Clinton to Bush: Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Joseph R. Cerami
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Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention to counterproliferation in the last decade, how effective was the leadership provided by President Clinton and his Secretaries of Defense, Aspin, Perry and Cohen, in providing innovative and effective policies for countering the proliferation of WMD? Comparing the cases of U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework, the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and U.S. and U.N. efforts in Iraq under Saddam … Read More »
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"Even in today’s constrained budget environment, the U.S. Defense Department needs to do more to prioritize munitions buys and prove it has learned the lessons of Ukraine. Congress can play a role in holding the Pentagon to its word here, increasing the buys of key conventional weapons as well as authorizing and appropriating money for the multiyear munitions contracts that would give much-needed stability to the munitions industry."
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Those who think of the war of the future and of modern warfare, with more sophisticated weapons, capable of causing more death, are psychologically limited. this race to armaments will not stop unless those who can make a statement of true commitment to disarmament. Those who work in the weapon industry, even the secretaries, cannot tell their children that they have a normal job. They contribute to the spread of death and destruction
My statement is a strong moral stance against the arms industry and the ongoing development of increasingly sophisticated weapons.
The development of advanced weaponry is often justified by nations as a means of deterrence and national security. Military planners and policymakers argue that maintaining technological superiority helps prevent conflicts by discouraging potential adversaries from engaging in hostilities. This statement was central during the Cold War.
The arms industry contribute to the potential for increased lethality and destruction in conflicts. The psychological impact on those working in the industry, including support staff, can be significant as they grapple with the moral implications of their work.
Achieving comprehensive disarmament faces significant challenges due to geopolitical tensions, national security concerns, and economic interests tied to the defence industry. Calling it defence is rather ironic since these weapons are mainly using for attacking, often, faraway "enemies" of a hypothetical order.
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Ideas animate narratives, and narratives win wars. The narrative is China’s chosen weapon in this pseudo-peace to win without fighting us. Thus, it is imperative that we understand the foundational ideas. Not only to identify and target the narratives. But also because the ideas provide insights and predictions of strategy.
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Over the past 30 years, America's information instrument has been neglected. If Washington is truly committed to competing against China and Russia, then we must marshal greater information powers to compete effectively in the battle of strategic narratives and expose disinformation and malign actions of authoritarian governments.
The inconvenient truth is that Beijing has been running circles around us, flooding the global media with prompt, polished narratives. … Beijing also incessantly throws shade on the US and the wider west.
Beijing adeptly engages in psychological warfare with slogans such "the east is rising, the west is declining" - propaganda that resonates in much of the global south, earning China tremendous influence.
By comparison, US information operations are subdued. We have placed less emphasis on training information professionals to engage in information warfare at the speed and scale required to deal with our adversaries.
Our information teams tend to be small and scattered across government. We no longer have a central US Information Agency (USIA), as we did to counter Russian propaganda during the cold war. …
We have created barriers to releasing information with approval processes that are often labyrinthine and dilatory. Our default mode for dissemination is more reactive than proactive.
The net result is that US strategic messaging is often weak, late or absent. The supreme irony is that Beijing has more empowered people in its police state to engage in lies and propaganda than America in an open democracy allows its people to deploy the truth.
If we don't figure out how to do a better job of rapidly sharing facts and describing reality to domestic and international audiences, then Chinese fiction, fabrications and falsehoods will continue to fill the information vacuum.
Excerpt: When I was director of intelligence for the Indo-Pacific Command, for example, I watched as numerous requests to publicise Chinese malign activities were disapproved by Washington, including a recommendation to publicise Beijing’s use of high-altitude surveillance balloons over the sovereign airspaces of the US, our allies and Asian partners. This was many months before the shooting down of a Chinese balloon flying over the US last year. In the Department of Defense, information experts sometimes quip that it is easier to drop a bomb than get approval to launch a strategic “information fire”.
On top of all this, the National Security Council exerts excessively tight discipline on any China messaging, throttling initiatives and often frustrating subordinate departments and agencies from communicating in the domains for which they are responsible. Unfortunately, the White House fails to connect the dots for the American public on the comprehensive dangers Beijing poses to our security, prosperity and values.
This is and incredible article portraying the future of hybrid warfare and it's implications for international security, this should be a central point of discussion during the Washington Summit of the NATO Alliance.
The threats emanating from this type of tactics aren't just reserved to armed conflicts, they also affect the well functioning of societies during peace periods. As civil society we need to be aware of this threats and how they affect us.
The implications for Australian defence equipment supplies in this analysis are profound. With the potential new front opened up in the Red Sea and broader Middle East Region, it is unfathomable that Australian defence production of critical capabilities is not already approaching wartime levels.
In this op-ed, the Cato Institute’s Eric Gomez argues the US won’t be able to support Ukraine and Taiwan with arms and defense articles indefinitely and that hard choices are on the horizon. http://ow.ly/JaYm1058CzP
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