Live Breaking News & Updates on Then Defense Secretary Mark Esper

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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
on December 10, 2020 at 2:34 PM
Two F-22 Raptors and one B-2 Spirit, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, fly in formation over the Pacific.
WASHINGTON: In a clear appeal to the incoming Biden administration, the commander of the Air Force’s strategic bombers and ICBMs says America’s allies are counting on us to stay the course and completely modernize our nuclear triad not cut it back.
Gen. Timothy Ray’s remarks to today’s online Triad Symposium were pre-recorded. It’s not clear if he knew, when he made his arguments, that Biden had decided to nominate retired Army four-star Lloyd Austin for Secretary of Defense, a military insider unlikely to challenge established priorities. But even under Austin, there’ll be tremendous pressure to cut the Pentagon budget post-COVID, and some Democrats have long advocated saving money by slashing nukes. Some have even argued for going down to just one leg of the Cold War ....

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