Congressman Lamborn Responds To Biden's Nuclear Posture Review

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Congressman Lamborn issued the following statement in response to the release of the The National Defense Strategy (NDS), Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), and Missile Defense Review (MDR):

"The National Defense Strategy (NDS), Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), and Missile Defense Review (MDR) that were released today offer markedly different visions of this Administration's defense posture. Much like the last budget the Biden Administration sent to Congress, this NDS reflects no hard choices and leaves an unclear picture of the methods that will be employed to contend with the threats our country faces. The NDS claims to support the National Security Strategy's guidance through this "decisive decade," yet offers competing approaches to deterrence. While the NDS does identify legitimate security concerns, it does not attempt to untangle the web of threats, capabilities, domains, regions, and internal Department issues. Instead, numerous overlapping solutions are presented and rubber-stamped as cohesive under the marker of "integrated deterrence."

"The NPR and MDR, on the other hand, offer a much more nuanced and rational approach to the complicated challenges they set out to address. The NPR supports full nuclear triad and command and control modernization, and the MDR elaborates on air and missile threats that can be addressed through a series of existing and advanced capabilities. Tucked away in the corners of these strategies are some inelegant political posturing statements, including the continued insistence on cancelling the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N), but these statements are hollow in their meaning and have been easily overturned by Congress on a bipartisan basis. I will continue to advocate for continuing progress on the SLCM-N and demanding that the Administration fully fund the litany of priorities encapsulated in these reviews."

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