{"id":3676,"date":"2018-06-06T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2018-06-06T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:18:35","slug":"us-senate-panel-sets-sights-on-russia-china-major-defence-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/06\/us-senate-panel-sets-sights-on-russia-china-major-defence-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"US SENATE PANEL SETS SIGHTS ON RUSSIA CHINA MAJOR DEFENCE BILL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_T-14_Armata.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defence News<\/p>\n<p>By: Joe Gould<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate began debate on the Armed Services Committee\u2019s $716 billion annual defense policy bill Wednesday, which highlights the threats from Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The panel\u2019s 2019 National Defense Authorization Act expresses a \u201csense of the Senate\u201d for a broad, long-term strategy that includes helping European allies, \u201cbacked by all elements of United States\u2019 national power to deter and, if necessary, defeat Russian aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That call includes a forward-stationed U.S. Army armored brigade combat team in Europe. The bill would also order a report on whether to permanently station a BCT in Poland, which offered the U.S. just that last month.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also directs the Army to acquire an interim short-term capability to fill gaps in cruise missile defense, to defend against Chinese and Russian threats.<\/p>\n<p>These provisions, according to committee aides, are meant to guide the Pentagon in line with the National Defense Strategy\u2019s \u201cgreat power competition\u201d emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/06\/06\/us-senate-panel-sets-sights-russia-china-in-major-defense-bill\/?utm_campaign=Socialflow&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defence News By: Joe Gould The U.S. Senate began debate on the Armed Services Committee\u2019s $716 billion annual defense policy bill Wednesday, which highlights the threats from Russia and China. The panel\u2019s 2019 National Defense Authorization Act expresses a \u201csense of the Senate\u201d for a broad, long-term strategy that includes helping European allies, \u201cbacked&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/06\/us-senate-panel-sets-sights-on-russia-china-major-defence-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US SENATE PANEL SETS SIGHTS ON RUSSIA CHINA MAJOR DEFENCE BILL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}