{"id":44124,"date":"2022-03-03T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/03\/congressman-argues-us-deterrence-strategy-failed-to-protect-ukraine-and-could-fail-taiwan-too\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:15:04","slug":"congressman-argues-us-deterrence-strategy-failed-to-protect-ukraine-and-could-fail-taiwan-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2022\/03\/03\/congressman-argues-us-deterrence-strategy-failed-to-protect-ukraine-and-could-fail-taiwan-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman argues US deterrence strategy failed to protect Ukraine and could fail Taiwan too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Russian invasion of Ukraine should show American military and congressional leaders the importance of arming Taiwan before conflict erupts, one lawmaker contended in a March 3 hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin, questioned whether the \u201cintegrated deterrence\u201d concept \u2014 which brings to bear whole-of-government solutions from the U.S. and its allies and partners \u2014 had been effective against Russia or could work against China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the first test, real-world test, of integrated deterrence, and it failed. We need to learn from that,\u201d Gallagher said of Russia during a House Armed Services Committee hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Integrated deterrence has become a key focus for the Biden administration. It calls for deterring aggression before it starts by bringing the threat of joint force military capabilities in all domains, whole-of-government actions \u2014 from sanctions to diplomatic talks to financial and other measures carried out by the departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security and more throughout the federal government \u2014 and the power of allies and partners around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/2866963\/concept-of-integrated-deterrence-will-be-key-to-national-defense-strategy-dod-o\/\">said last year the concept<\/a> \u201cwill inform almost everything that we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn terms of integrated \u2026 we mean, integrated across domains \u2014 so conventional, nuclear, cyber, space, informational,\u201d he said. \u201c[It is also] integrated across theaters of competition and potential conflict [and] integrated across the spectrum of conflict from high-intensity warfare to the gray zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kahl referenced scenarios like Russia trying to grab non-NATO nations like Ukraine or Georgia, or China trying to seize Taiwan, in laying out the need for integrated deterrence as a key to U.S. policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe at [the] Department of Defense need to have the capabilities and the concepts to deny the type of rapid fait accompli scenarios that we know potential adversaries are contemplating, so they can\u2019t make a rapid lunge at our partners and allies before they believe the United States can show up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Gallagher argued at the hearing the current policy may place too much emphasis on non-military tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy bias is that you have to put hard power in the path of people like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin or [President of the People\u2019s Republic of China] Xi Jinping in order to have a hope of deterrence. \u2026 I want to deter; we all want to deter. We don\u2019t want to deal with an incursion into NATO. We certainly don\u2019t want to deal with a conflict over Taiwan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut if integrated deterrence is a smokescreen for cutting our investments in hard power and somehow believing that untested technology which won\u2019t be fielded until the end of the decade or the next decade, or allies, or statements coming out of Davos or the [United Nations], can substitute for hard power, I think we\u2019re going to see further deterrence failures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallagher has previously criticized plans to shrink the Navy\u2019s surface ship fleet to free up funding for future technologies like unmanned systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though he stopped short of saying what hard power should be put \u201cin the path\u201d of Putin today, he lamented how challenging it\u2019s been to get additional weaponry into Ukraine now that Russia has invaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe best lesson I think we can learn from this is actually in a different theater, it is in [Indo-Pacific Command]. The lesson is we need to think about how we arm Taiwan yesterday. After things start going boom, it\u2019s going to be hard to surge support,\u201d Gallagher said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are engaged in the process of trying to deter [China] by denial. And the threat of sanctions and the threat of the sternly worded mean tweet from the State Department press secretary is not going to deter Xi Jinping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also during the hearing, Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, noted worries about Russian naval forces heading to major Ukrainian port city Odesa. He asked if there\u2019s anything the U.S. Navy could do to keep Ukraine\u2019s third-largest city safe, despite not being allowed into the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/defensenews.mco.arcpublishing.com\/composer\/ddg%20mod%202%20pinckney.docx\">Turkey controls the two straits that lead<\/a> from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea, and it has decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/03\/01\/how-talk-of-war-tipped-turkeys-stance-on-closing-warship-traffic-through-its-straits\/\">close the straits to all warships<\/a>, including Russian warships that are not part of the Black Sea fleet and headed back to their home base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adm. 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And so that closure is influencing, obviously, the ability of Russian ships to flow to the Black Sea in a way that is much more impactful on them than our combatant commander.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has been pushing a whole-of-government &#8220;integrated deterrence&#8221; concept. Rep. 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