US forces should be redistributed along Indo-Pacific to counter Chinese threat: Pentagon chief Mark Esper

In a major Strategic shift- The Pentagon chief Mark Esper yesterday said that he considers realigning the US forces which are now largely deployed in the middle east to be shifted to the Indo-Pacific region.

The Defense Department’s strategy has shifted to confronting China and Russia, as the primary challenges, displacing the war on terrorism. China, with the world’s second-largest economy, is making major investments in military capabilities to challenge US postwar dominance and is perceived as a growing threat among US military planners.