A senior Pentagon policy official said today that the United States intends to keep its focus on deterring China, despite addressing ongoing crises in Ukraine and Israel. Mara Karlin, assistant defense secretary for strategy, plans and capabilities, who is also performing the duties of the deputy defense under secretary for policy, spoke at the Brookings Institute about the Pentagon’s continued focus on China as the “pacing challenge” identified in the 2022 National Defense Strategy. “The Department of Defense is a...
