The Pentagon is close to completing an assessment into setting up a congressionally mandated joint military force for the Pacific that lawmakers say is needed to prepare for war with China, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress this week.
Pentagon two weeks from decision on China-focused joint military task force sought by CongressThe U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement on Saturday that the Chinese destroyer “executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner in the vicinity of Chung-Hoon,” a U.S. destroyer. The incident was filmed and posted online.
Mr. Wicker, Mississippi Republican, said Adm. John Aquilino, the outgoing commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, convinced Congress that a separate standing joint task force for future military operations is needed. Members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, added language to the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that requires creating a joint task force headquarters for operations.
The joint task force is not focused on China. Instead, the force is devoted to homeland defense on Guam and security support to the other island states. The controversy was disclosed in May 2023 in a report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party that called for the Pentagon to “fully implement” the task force mandate in a report. The task force is needed to deter China, the report said.
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