Details emerging from the 2022 military budgeting process suggest that the United States will refocus from the Middle East toward China and other perceived emerging threats.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) made the government’s intended strategic shift explicit during a Brookings Institution webinar previewing the committee’s Sept. 1 markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—the annual congressional allotment to the Department of Defense and related agencies.
