“Indo-Pacific Investments: – Prioritizes China as the preeminent pacing challenge while developing capabilities and operational concepts in the Indo-Pacific. – Supports the requirements of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to maintain the comparative military advantage of the United States – Pacific Deterrence: $6.1 billion in critical investments include integrated fires, new missile warning and tracking architecture, construction to enable enhanced posture, funding for defense of Guam, and multinational information sharing, training, and experimentation.”
— From the U.S. Department of Defense fiscal 2023 budget – released March 28 in Washington, D.C., which also said DoD will invest “$892 million for the defense of Guam against the missile threat from China.
