{"id":2254778,"date":"2024-05-29T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-roger-wicker-warns-significant-defense-investment-needed-to-counter-threats\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T05:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:59:44","slug":"sen-roger-wicker-warns-significant-defense-investment-needed-to-counter-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-roger-wicker-warns-significant-defense-investment-needed-to-counter-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Roger Wicker emphasizes the need for substantial defense investments to address growing threats"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fsen-roger-wicker-warns-significant-defense-investment-needed-to-counter-threats%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=2254778&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--><p>Senator \u200bRoger Wicker, a key figure in\u200c the \u2063Senate\u2062 Armed Services \u2062Committee, advocates for a substantial increase in defense\u200c spending to address current and future global threats. He highlights the inadequacies \u200bin the \u200cU.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-kathleen-hicks-as-deputy-defense-secretary\/\" title=\"Senate Confirms Kathleen Hicks as Deputy Defense Secretary\">defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">industrial base<\/a><\/a> and\u2062 proposes raising the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-media-predicts-beijing-will-boost-2022-defense-budget-by-7\/\" title=\"Chinese Media Predicts Beijing Will Boost 2022 Defense Budget by 7%\">annual defense budget<\/a> \u2063to\u2063 5% of the GDP \u2064to \u2064ensure preparedness for potential conflicts. The report focuses on strengthening military capabilities, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexamine.com\/tag\/department-of-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Department of Defense<\/a> needs to increase its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-lipson-putin-ends-the-post-cold-war-order\/\" title=\"Charles Lipson: Putin Ends the Post-Cold War Order\">defense spending significantly<\/a> to meet current and future global threats, according to a new plan from Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexamine.com\/tag\/roger-wicker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Roger Wicker<\/a> (R-MS), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The senator argues that the U.S. defense industrial base is underfunded and unprepared for future conflict, and in order to correct this course of action, the annual defense budget should grow to 5% of the U.S. gross domestic product. The current figure is<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Mar\/12\/2002099941\/-1\/-1\/0\/190312-D-ZZ999-001.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" around three percent\"> around 3%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wicker\u2019s report, which is titled\u00a0\u201c21st Century Peace Through Strength: A Generational Investment in the U.S. Military\u201d and released on Wednesday, provides several recommendations across the services and domains with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>He calls for the modernization of U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacom.mil\/About-USINDOPACOM\/USPACOM-Area-of-Responsibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"INDOPACOM\">Indo-Pacific Command<\/a> command and control, improving interoperability with key allies and partners, accelerating the procurement and employment of asymmetric capabilities for Taiwan and the Philippines, and for the Pentagon to consider new nuclear-sharing agreements in the Indo-Pacific and potentially the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) speaks during an event Tuesday, April 9, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pentagon considers the Chinese Communist Party to be its \u201cpacing\u00a0challenge\u201d and believes it is the only U.S. adversary with the desire and capability to transform the world order in its favor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/space-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"U.S. Space Force\">U.S. Space Force<\/a> should accelerate fielding of layered, networked satellite architecture across capability areas to counter China\u2019s space program, harden ground stations and underlying infrastructure, and procure at scale classified programs in development.<\/p>\n<p>Wicker also believes the industrial base should be built up to deliver a 355-ship fleet and the purchase of at least 340 more aircraft in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Wicker\u2019s plan is not the first time he has vocalized his belief that the military was not adequately prepared or preparing for what a future conflict could entail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden submitted to Congress a proposed fiscal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-defense-budget-is-designed-for-an-alternate-reality\/\" title=\"Biden's defense budget is tailored for a different reality\">2025 budget request<\/a> of $849.8 billion for the DOD last month, and Wicker argued it was \u201cignoring today\u2019s very real challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the administration worked through its 2025 budget request, it was handicapped by last year\u2019s Fiscal Responsibility Act, which required it to be about a 1% increase from the fiscal 2024 request. But, due to inflation, the department effectively cut about $10 billion from last year\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) stresses the vital need for increased defense spending to combat current and future global threats. 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