Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A look at funding in the new defense bill, and what must happen now (Dustin Walker, Defense News)

December 16, 2021

The Pentagon’s first draft of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative has been dead on arrival since its submission to Congress in May. But with the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022 headed to the president’s desk, Congress has rewritten the PDI and established a new baseline against which future Pentagon efforts to deter China will be measured.

Congress established the PDI last year for two basic reasons: to better understand what the Pentagon was spending in the Indo-Pacific region, and to change the composition of that spending.

Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A look at funding in the new defense bill, and what must happen now (defensenews.com)

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Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A look at funding in the new defense bill, and what must happen now (Dustin Walker, Defense News)

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