House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) successfully introduced an amendment last night to the fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill directing the Pentagon to report on U.S. force structure planning to account for Russian and Chinese military cooperation. “The committee recognizes the importance of accounting for the possibility of opportunistic, coordinated or combined Russian-Chinese aggression in the Department’s force structure plans, including the risk that one or more potential conflicts could break out simultaneously in multiple domains and...
