Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Homeland Security

Donald Trump: Develop Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program

Develop the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear (SLCM-N): In 2018, the Trump Administration proposed restoring the SLCM-N to help fill a growing gap in U.S. nonstrategic capabilities and improve deterrence against limited nuclear attack. The Biden Administration canceled this program in its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The next President should support and accelerate funding for development of the SLCM-N with the goal of deployment by the end of the decade. Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.124 Apr 1, 2023

Joe Biden: Cancel Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program

Heritage Foundation: Unequivocal top priority: defend Taiwan from China

U.S. defense strategy must identify China unequivocally as the top priority for U.S. defense planning while modernizing and expanding the US nuclear arsenal and sustaining an efficient and effective counterterrorism enterprise. Achieving these goals will require more spending on defense, both by the US and by its allies, as well as active support for reindustrialization and more support for allies' productive capacity so that we can scale our free-world efforts together.

Prioritize a denial defense against China, and, in particular, the effective denial defense of Taiwan. This focus and priority for US defense activities will deny China the first island chain.
Require that all US defense efforts focus on ensuring the ability of American forces to prevail in the pacing scenario and deny China a fait accompli against Taiwan.
Prioritize the US conventional force planning construct to defeat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan before allocating resources to other missions.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 93-94 Apr 1, 2023

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