By increasing its conventional forces, fortifying alliances, and advancing its nuclear weapons modernization programme, the United States must get ready for potential simultaneous battles with China and Russia, a bipartisan Senate panel concluded on Thursday.
US ready for wars with China and Russia: The Strategic Posture Commission’s assessment comes as tensions with China over Taiwan and other matters are escalating, and with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are also getting worse.
A senior person engaged in the study did not make it clear whether the panel’s intelligence briefings revealed any Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons collaboration.
“We fret… The official spoke on the condition of anonymity and stated that there may be final coordination between them in some manner.
The findings would contradict the present U.S. national security strategy, which calls on winning one conflict while deterring another, and would necessitate significant increases in defence budget with unsure congressional support.
“We do recognise budget realities, but we also believe the nation must make these investments,” the Democratic chair, Madelyn Creedon, a former deputy head of the agency that supervises U.S. nuclear weapons, and the vice chair, retired Republican senator Jon Kyl, said in the report’s introduction.
The study stands in contrast to Joe Biden’s assertion that the United States’ present nuclear arsenal is adequate to deter the combined armies of Russia and China.
The Strategic Posture Commission stated that “the United States and its allies must be prepared to deter and defeat both adversaries simultaneously.” The authoritarian regimes in China and Russia pose a threat to the ideals upheld by the U.S.-led international system.
“2022 Panel Assessment and Recommendations for U.S. National Security”
In 2022, Congress created the panel, which consists of six Democrats and six Republicans, to evaluate threats to the US and make suggestions for adjustments to its conventional and nuclear weapons.
The 145-page assessment asserts that the nation needs to make decisions now in order to be prepare because the Chinese and Russian threats will intensify in the 2027–2035 period.
The research stated that the 30-year U.S. nuclear arms modernization program, which started in 2010 and was anticipate to cost $400 billion by 2046, must completely fund the modernization of all warheads, delivery systems, and infrastructure.
Furthermore, we should place more tactical nuclear weapons in Asia and Europe, and we should increase the operational lifetimes of ballistic missile submarines.