Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has doubled down on his efforts to change the service’s focus rapidly from post-9/11 fighting to an unprecedented clash with China, setting a January deadline for a new war plan.
Six days after issuing a new call to arms in a servicewide memo, Kendall this week said that while the terror threat continues to be the main target of the military, “China is by far our pacing challenge.”In a speech Monday to the Air & Space Force Association’s 2023 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, Kendall said, “Our job is to deter that war and to be ready to win if it occurs.
Concerns have been raised for years that China is outpacing the U.S. in weapons development. Even when former President Donald Trump formed the Space Force, some insiders feared that the United States was still ignoring China’s efforts to expand into space. “It has been clear to me for over a decade that China is intent on fielding a force that can conduct aggression in the Western Pacific and prevail even if the United States intervenes. While China has focused on creating the regional conventional forces it believes it needs, China is also dramatically expanding its nuclear force and military space capabilities. We cannot sustain deterrence by standing still,” he wrote.
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