{"id":1764270,"date":"2022-12-06T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764270"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:03:34","slug":"austin-declares-u-s-will-prevail-in-what-he-calls-decisive-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-declares-u-s-will-prevail-in-what-he-calls-decisive-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Declares U.S. Will Prevail In What He Calls \u201cDecisive Decade\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustin-declares-u-s-will-prevail-in-what-he-calls-decisive-decade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764270&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"title-alt-01\"><span class=\"font-color-01\">JUST IN: Austin Declares U.S. Will Prevail in \u2018Decisive Decade\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-main-img\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/-\/media\/sites\/magazine\/2022\/12\/7538592.jpg?h=500&#038;w=878&#038;la=en&#038;hash=41AED9145D5B622F3BD110C59D1EAA2C\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                            <\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">Defense Dept. photo<\/p>\n<p><strong>SIMI VALLEY, California \u2014<\/strong> In a wide-ranging speech delivered Dec. 3 under the wings of former President Ronald Reagan\u2019s Air Force One, and one day after attending the rollout of the B-21 Raider, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III called on Congress to pass crucial legislation and a new budget to help the military prevail in a \u201cdecisive decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs President [Joe] Biden has said, we stand in a decisive decade, and these next few years will set the terms of our competition with the People\u2019s Republic of China, and they will shape the future of security [in] Europe, and they will determine the kind of world our children and grandchildren will inherit,\u201d Austin said at the Reagan National Defense Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department has requested funding from Congress to bolster its air power capabilities, update its platforms to deliver nuclear weapons, boost the Marine Corps\u2019 ability to operate in the Indo-Pacific and provide the Army with better long-range fires, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you add all that up, it\u2019s a lot, but we\u2019ve got a lot to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me urge Congress to pass an on-time appropriation [bill] so we can get the capabilities to further strengthen our deterrence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As has become the norm, Congress has missed several deadlines to pass a fiscal year 2023 budget, as well as a National Defense Authorization Act. The continuing resolution, which allows the government to operate as Congress debates the new measures, hampers the Pentagon from starting new programs and restricts funding to 2022 levels. With high inflation, this year\u2019s delay has posed even more problems.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department is also working closely with Congress to secure multi-year procurement authorities, he said. The change would help the armed forces develop the technologies needed for the future more quickly, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Such contracting authorities would allow the Defense Department components to fund programs for multiple years instead of one year at a time, which currently puts weapon systems development at the mercy of Congress\u2019s yearly failure to pass budgets on time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s unprovoked war in Ukraine has shown what the world could be if authoritarian regimes go unchecked, he said. Russian is using \u201cdeliberated cruelty\u201d by putting citizens in harm\u2019s way, destroying schools and hospitals and killing children and civilians. Putin\u2019s Russia \u201cis a preview of a world of tyranny and turmoil no one would want to live in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s war is not the result of NATO expansion,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the cause of NATO expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austin reiterated Biden administration policy to stand with Ukraine however possible without putting U.S. forces in the country and ensuring that neighboring NATO allies are under U.S. protection. \u201cWe will defend every inch of NATO territory,\u201d he vowed.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Republic of China continues to provide the United States with its \u201cpacing challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PRC is the only country with both the will, and increasingly the power, to reshape its region and the international order to suit its authoritarian preferences. So let me be clear: we will not let that happen,\u201d Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent meeting in Cambodia, Austin met his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Wei Fenghe, where he warned the nation\u2019s air force to cease provocative and dangerous flight maneuvers. \u201cAnd I made clear that the United States will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also deeply committed to responsibly managing our competition with the PRC even as we defend our interests and our allies\u2019 interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has honed its ability to move warfighters quickly to the region and invested in logistics, infrastructure and military construction across the Indo-Pacific, he added. It has carried out dozens of military exercises with allies in the region such as Japan, Canada, India and Australia, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The week of Dec. 4, Austin will host defense ministers from the United Kingdom and Australia to discuss the AUKUS agreement, which will assist Australia in acquiring nuclear-powered submarines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re charting the best pathway for Australia to acquire a nuclear-powered, conventionally armed submarine as early as possible \u2014 all while upholding the highest nonproliferation standards,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have requested billions to modernize the Marines into a highly mobile military force,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2022\/12\/2\/after-years-of-secrecy-air-force-rolls-out-b-21-raider-bomber\" target=\"_blank\">The B-21 Raider strategic bomber<\/a>, unveiled the previous evening in Northrop Grumman\u2019s nearby Palmdale, California, facility, serves as a symbol of American ingenuity that authoritarian regimes can never match, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shows that we\u2019re clear-eyed about what it is going to take to keep America secure in the 21st Century,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The seven-year effort to build the first Raider models was a combination of \u201cfree minds\u201d and \u201cfree enterprise,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is only one country on Earth that consistently delivers that combination, and that\u2019s the United States of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                <strong class=\"font-color-01 font-size-02\">Topics:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={54D6C881-A1E6-42D1-BDF5-AE3949193734}\">Defense Department<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={71EE8BFD-D3A4-4AFD-B5E9-895E3AEAF4EC}\">Budget<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={807AFBE8-FE6F-45B3-B2A0-B7B9C7FD2E5A}\">International<\/a>\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUST IN: Austin Declares U.S. Will Prevail in \u2018Decisive Decade\u2019  Defense Dept. photo SIMI VALLEY, California \u2014 In a wide-ranging speech delivered Dec. 3 under the wings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}