Pentagon plans stronger US posture toward China, Russia
by Agence France-Presse
December 1, 2021
in Defense Geopolitics News
The US military will reinforce deployments and bases directed at China and Russia, while maintaining forces in the Middle East adequate to deter Iran and jihadist groups, the Pentagon said Monday, referencing results of a review.
The US Defense Department will be upgrading and expanding military facilities in Guam and Australia, underscoring its focus on China as the country’s leading defense rival, officials said.
The details of the “global posture review,” commissioned by President Joe Biden’s administration early this year, would remain classified, the officials added, so as not to reveal plans to rivals.
The move comes in the wake of the formation of a new defense alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia — dubbed AUKUS — to counter a rising China, which has been building up its own navy and testing decades of US military dominance across Asia.
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