New acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper is bad news for China
by Tom Rogan | June 18, 2019 03:59 PM
"Cannon to the right of them / Cannon to the left of them / Cannon in front of them / Volley’ed and thundered."
— Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Current Secretary of the Army and newly announced acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper is delivering a similar message of deterrent threat to China. That makes him well-placed to sustain the American-led international order in the 21st century.
Like Patrick Shanahan, the man he'll replace, Esper is a former defense contractor rather than a career military officer à la Jim Mattis. But like both Mattis and Shanahan, Esper appears ready to confront China's threat. Positively referencing American alliances at the Atlantic Council in May, Esper observed,
We need to modernize together. And we need to build those capabilities. Because when we fight as a coalition we're far, far more likely to have success ... the Pacific is a vast area covered by a lot of water. But it depends where the fight ends up. We talk about fighting in the first island chain or the second, but who knows where the first scrap if it happens, and let's hope it doesn't, with the Chinese ends up. But when we think about it we think about some of the Army's modernization priorities. So you think about number one for us: long-range precision fires.
Esper continued,
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