[Document(page_content='But we will do so as the last resort and only when the objectives and mission are clear and achievable, consistent with our values and laws, alongside non-military tools, and the mission is undertaken with the informed consent of the American people.\n\nOur approach to national defense is described in detail in the 2022 National Defense Strategy.\n\nOur starting premise is that a powerful U.S. military helps advance and safeguard vital U.S. national interests by backstopping diplomacy, confronting aggression, deterring conflict, projecting strength, and protecting the American people and their economic interests.\n\nAmid intensifying competition, the military’s role is to maintain and gain warfighting advantages while limiting those of our competitors.\n\nThe military will act urgently to sustain and strengthen deterrence, with the PRC as its pacing challenge.\n\nWe will make disciplined choices regarding our national defense and focus our attention on the military’s primary responsibilities: to defend the homeland, and deter attacks and aggression against the United States, our allies and partners, while being prepared to fight and win the Nation’s wars should diplomacy and deterrence fail.\n\nTo do so, we will combine our strengths to achieve maximum effect in deterring acts of aggression—an approach we refer to as integrated deterrence (see text box on page 22).\n\nWe will operate our military using a campaigning mindset—sequencing logically linked military activities to advance strategy-aligned priorities.\n\nAnd, we will build a resilient force and defense ecosystem to ensure we can perform these functions for decades to come.\n\nWe ended America’s longest war in Afghanistan, and with it an era of major military operations to remake other societies, even as we have maintained the capacity to address terrorist threats to the American people as they emerge.\n\n20 NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY Page 21 \x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\n\nA combat-credible military is the foundation of deterrence and America’s ability to prevail in conflict.', metadata={'type': 'file', 'url': 'https://cdn.llmrails.com/dst_466092be-e79a-49f3-b3e6-50e51ddae186/a63892afdee3469d863520351bd5af9f', 'name': 'Biden-Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf', 'filters': {}}),
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Document(page_content='Page 1 NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OCTOBER 2022 Page 2 October 12, 2022 From the earliest days of my Presidency, I have argued that our world is at an inflection point.\n\nHow we respond to the tremendous challenges and the unprecedented opportunities we face today will determine the direction of our world and impact the security and prosperity of the American people for generations to come.\n\nThe 2022 National Security Strategy outlines how my Administration will seize this decisive decade to advance America’s vital interests, position the United States to outmaneuver our geopolitical competitors, tackle shared challenges, and set our world firmly on a path toward a brighter and more hopeful tomorrow.\n\nAround the world, the need for American leadership is as great as it has ever been.\n\nWe are in the midst of a strategic competition to shape the future of the international order.\n\nMeanwhile, shared challenges that impact people everywhere demand increased global cooperation and nations stepping up to their responsibilities at a moment when this has become more difficult.\n\nIn response, the United States will lead with our values, and we will work in lockstep with our allies and partners and with all those who share our interests.\n\nWe will not leave our future vulnerable to the whims of those who do not share our vision for a world that is free, open, prosperous, and secure.\n\nAs the world continues to navigate the lingering impacts of the pandemic and global economic uncertainty, there is no nation better positioned to lead with strength and purpose than the United States of America.\n\nFrom the moment I took the oath of office, my Administration has focused on investing in America’s core strategic advantages.\n\nOur economy has added 10 million jobs and unemployment rates have reached near record lows.\n\nManufacturing jobs have come racing back to the United States.\n\nWe’re rebuilding our economy from the bottom up and the middle out.', metadata={'type': 'file', 'url': 'https://cdn.llmrails.com/dst_466092be-e79a-49f3-b3e6-50e51ddae186/a63892afdee3469d863520351bd5af9f', 'name': 'Biden-Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf', 'filters': {}}),
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Document(page_content='To ensure our nuclear deterrent remains responsive to the threats we face, we are modernizing the nuclear Triad, nuclear command, control, and communications, and our nuclear weapons infrastructure, as well as strengthening our extended deterrence commitments to our Allies.\n\nWe remain equally committed to reducing the risks of nuclear war.\n\nThis includes taking further steps to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our strategy and pursuing realistic goals for mutual, verifiable arms control, which contribute to our deterrence strategy and strengthen the global non-proliferation regime.\n\nThe most important investments are those made in the extraordinary All-Volunteer Force of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard—together with our Department of Defense civilian workforce.\n\nOur service members are the backbone of America’s national defense and we are committed to their wellbeing and their families while in service and beyond.\n\nWe will maintain our foundational principle of civilian control of the military, recognizing that healthy civil-military relations rooted in mutual respect are essential to military effectiveness.\n\nWe will strengthen the effectiveness of the force by promoting diversity and inclusion; intensifying our suicide prevention efforts; eliminating the scourges of sexual assault, harassment, and other forms of violence, abuse, and discrimination; and rooting out violent extremism.\n\nWe will also uphold our Nation’s sacred obligation to care for veterans and their families when our troops return home.\n\nNATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY 21 Page 22 \x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\n\nIntegrated Deterrence The United States has a vital interest in deterring aggression by the PRC, Russia, and other states.\n\nMore capable competitors and new strategies of threatening behavior below and above the traditional threshold of conflict mean we cannot afford to rely solely on conventional forces and nuclear deterrence.\n\nOur defense strategy must sustain and strengthen deterrence, with the PRC as our pacing challenge.', metadata={'type': 'file', 'url': 'https://cdn.llmrails.com/dst_466092be-e79a-49f3-b3e6-50e51ddae186/a63892afdee3469d863520351bd5af9f', 'name': 'Biden-Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf', 'filters': {}})]
