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WASHINGTON \u2015 Congressional defense leaders now have at least three competing plans to push back on China in the Pacific<\/a>. Which will they choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced his own $3.6 billion Indo-Pacific Reassurance Initiative plan Thursday \u2015 a response to two plans, each called the Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative \u2015 that would spend more and be more prescriptive about how the Pentagon would use that money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal in this was to send a signal to our partners and allies that we have an enduring commitment to the region and that collectively we want to help address the full spectrum of security threats that our partners and allies in the region face,\u201d a committee aide said in a conference call with reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, Smith\u2019s plan identifies $3.6 billion in the base budget already detailed in the president\u2019s budget request, and it requires the Pentagon produce a raft of analyses before Congress beefs up U.S. presence in the Pacific. The dollar figure is identified in a nonbinding \u201csense of Congress\u201d provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The language is part of the HASC draft of the annual defense policy bill, due to be marked up in committee July 1. Whatever language survives the markup and amendment process on the floor will become the House\u2019s negotiating position with the Senate, which began a preliminary floor debate this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith\u2019s plan and the others represent Congress\u2019 efforts to sharpen the Pentagon\u2019s spending and focus in the Asia-Pacific region, even as Defense Secretary Mark Esper has said China is his department\u2019s top adversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each plan was inspired by the multiyear European Deterrence Initiative<\/a>, which has consumed $22 billion since its inception in response to Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., exits a classified House Armed Services Committee briefing at the U.S. Capitol, May 28, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

HASC\u2019s top Republican, Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas, has proposed an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative that spends $6 billion \u2015 all in fiscal 2021 \u2015 on specific priorities that include air and missile defense systems as well as new military construction in partner countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thornberry will offer amendments during the markup to get the bill closer to his plan, according to a memo he released Thursday. Smith\u2019s plan lacks \u201cseveral important elements,\u201d and the amendments will be \u201cfocused on specific authorities and investments needed to strengthen greater cooperation with allies and partners,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith\u2019s plan would require another strategy from the defense secretary and chief of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for all the forces, equipment and facilities, and they would need to reassure allies with a detailed budget, timeline and list of locations for proposed assets. Budget justification materials would be required in FY22 and each year after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to a requirement in the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act, Indo-Pacific Command previously provided Congress with a plan<\/a> for $20 billion in spending through FY26 so that the combatant command can fulfill the National Defense Strategy and maintain an edge over China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea with the new legislation, a HASC aide said, was to further establish a basis for the initiative and get the Defense Department into regular talks with Congress to describe how the military was meeting Congress\u2019 objectives and spending what lawmakers provided, the HASC aide said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress will have to internally negotiate the final dollar amount for any such fund and what those funds would buy. Once approved by the full House, its version of the NDAA would be reconciled with the Senate\u2019s version, which contains its own Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chairman Jim Inhofe speaks during a Senate Armed Services nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2020. (Photo by KEVIN DIETSCH\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Senate Armed Services Committee-approved plan authorizes $1.4 billion in 2021 (which is $188.6 million more than the president\u2019s budget request) and $5.5 billion in 2022. It also emphasizes investment in an array of specific enabling capabilities and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its transparency measures aren\u2019t as comprehensive as the HASC bill, but it requires the Pentagon provide detailed information in its annual budget request, including projections for spending over five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared with the SASC bill, Smith did not propose additional funding as SASC did, nor did he include off-budget wartime funds, a HASC aide said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo there\u2019ll be some differences to work out as we go through this,\u201d the aide said, \u201cbut we think there\u2019s a bipartisan consensus to try to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe, in a floor speech Thursday, touted the SASC bill\u2019s goal of countering Russia and China, which has \u201cantagonized and harassed Taiwanese, Malaysian, Vietnamese and Indonesian vessels in the South China Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act is all about sending a message to China and Russia,\u201d Inhofe said. \u201cIt says: \u2018There is no way you can defeat us \u2014 so don\u2019t even try.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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