Pentagon policy head faces Senate questions over NDS

Key members of the Senate Armed Services Committee took aim at the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy (NDS) on Tuesday, when one of its architects, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, appeared before the committee to defend it.

The most notable criticisms came from Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who specifically called the document out for numerous “flaws,” which, he said, ranged from not mentioning Taiwan in the document, to deemphasizing Europe, to simply not addressing U.S. competitors working together.

“In effect, it obfuscates the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party, and they are our pacing threat,” Wicker told the Pentagon’s policy head.

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