Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) of the House Armed Services Committee wants the Department of Defense (DoD) to launch a new program to enhance the United States’ ability to limit the Chinese communist regime’s military power in the Indo-Pacific region.
As the committee’s ranking member, Thornberry released an updated proposal laying out the an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative (IPDI), modeled after the European Deterrence Initiative—a DoD program set up to counter Russian military aggression in Europe.
