Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on War & Peace


Heritage Foundation: Restore offensive deterrence, including Space Force

The Biden Administration has eliminated almost all offensive deterrence capabilities and instead will rely solely on defensive capabilities of disaggregation, maneuver, and reconstitution--the most costly, the slowest, and ultimately the most fragile architecture selection.
  1. Reestablish offensive capabilities to guarantee a favorable balance of forces, efficiently manage the full deterrence spectrum, and seriously complicate enemy calculations of a successful first strike against U.S. space assets.
  2. Restore architectural balance in U.S. space forces, both offensive and defensive, to restore deterrence dominance efficiently and quickly.
  3. Rapidly expand space control capability, to include cis-lunar space (the region beginning at geosynchronous altitude and encompassing the moon), to provide early warning of an enemy attack.
  4. Seek arms control and "rules of the road" understandings only when they are unambiguously in the interests of the U.S. and its allies.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.117-18 Apr 1, 2023

Joe Biden: Eliminated most offensive deterrence capabilities

The Biden Administration has eliminated almost all offensive deterrence capabilities and instead will rely solely on defensive capabilities of disaggregation, maneuver, and reconstitution--the most costly, the slowest, and ultimately the most fragile architecture selection.
  1. Reestablish offensive capabilities to guarantee a favorable balance of forces, efficiently manage the full deterrence spectrum, and seriously complicate enemy calculations of a successful first strike against U.S. space assets.
  2. Restore architectural balance in U.S. space forces, both offensive and defensive, to restore deterrence dominance efficiently and quickly.
  3. Rapidly expand space control capability, to include cis-lunar space (the region beginning at geosynchronous altitude and encompassing the moon), to provide early warning of an enemy attack.
  4. Seek arms control and "rules of the road" understandings only when they are unambiguously in the interests of the U.S. and its allies.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.117-18 Apr 1, 2023

Donald Trump: Abraham Accords end the centrality of Arab-Israeli conflict

President Trump's Abraham Accords signaled the end of the centrality of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which paralyzed U.S. approaches to the region, and focused instead on Iran as the principal threat to America from this region. During the Trump Administration, USAID's allocations reflected the new opportunities created by the Accords and sought to strengthen regional alliances against Iran through expanded regional trade and investment and to promote genuine political stability tethered to strong American leadership. USAID formally partnered with the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Morocco, Qatar, and Kuwait to catalyze regional partnerships in Africa.

Foreign aid must advance the Abraham Accords. Increased trade and investment between Israel and its Arab neighbors represent the most effective path toward reducing poverty, fostering the emergence of a middle class, and solidifying peace.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.274 Apr 1, 2023

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