Daily on Defense: Fearing escalation, Biden administration hesitant to confront Russia directly in Black Sea or skies over Syria
“Russian unsafe and unprofessional behavior in the air not only degrades our Defeat ISIS mission, it risks unintended escalation and miscalculation,” said Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, commander of the U.S. Central Command, in response to the July 23 incident over Syria in which declassified video shows a Russian jet dropping flares on an MQ-9 Reaper drone, damaging its propeller.
“What didn't get attention after the fact was that the Pentagon put out orders to pull surveillance flights, I think 50 miles away from where they were flying, which, I imagine, probably hurt our ability to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance,” Esper said. “I suppose Moscow saw that there was benefit from doing that if we backed off, and maybe they're trying to do the same here.”
But Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters that those forces were dispatched “to address what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz and the continued activity that we're seeing by Iranian Navy ships harassing vessels.” “How would it work? Probably by bundling the merchant craft into three-to-five ship convoys, each escorted by a couple of guided-missile warships. There would be a significant air component to carry out patrols tracking the location of the Russian Black Sea Fleet — which operates largely out of ports in occupied Crimea — and to respond to possible Russian air attacks on the ships,” Stavridis writes.
HAPPENING TODAY: Lloyd Austin has arrived in Papua New Guinea today where he is the first U.S. defense secretary to visit the island nation. “It's an honor to be the first US SecDef to visit PNG, especially at a time of historic progress toward the relationship between our two countries,” Austin tweeted upon his arrival.
ALSO TODAY: A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing considers the nominations of Air Force Lt. Gen. Gregory Guillot to commander, U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command; and Space Force Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting to be commander, U.S. Space Command. The hearing begins at 9 a.m. at the Hart Senate Office Building, room 216.
“We made a commitment to the American people we were going to reduce spending, we were going to freeze the spending levels, and we were going to make sure that we removed all of the woke spending programs that the Biden administration has put forward over the last couple of years,” Rep. Matt Rosendale said at a Capitol Hill news conference.
“Sadly, unfortunately, there are some Republicans in the House who don't want to cut spending. Worse yet, many Republicans in the Senate want to actually increase spending,” said Good. “But we are committed to using every tool at our disposal to go back to the $1.471 [trillion] pre-COVID-level spending for nondefense discretionary, allowing defense to stay at current levels.
“For far too much of our nation’s history, servicemembers of color who fought to defend our country were forced to serve in segregated units. Black troops were denied the very rights that they fought to defend. Despite this bitter heritage, segregated units demonstrated their skill and mettle in war after war. During World War II alone, more than one million Black Americans served bravely to defeat fascism,” said Lloyd Austin, the nation’s first black defense secretary, in a statement.
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