The United States can no longer afford to put off strategic modernization, and the Biden administration should proceed with renewing the Pentagon's planned strategic systems, senior military leaders argued in a panel discussion during AFA's virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium. The new administration has already said it will conduct a new Nuclear Posture Review and a Missile Defense Review, and Gen. John E. Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted DOD will also undertake a Space Posture Review because the strategic landscape has changed so dramatically. "Deterrence in the 21st century is wholly different than it was in the 20th century," Hyten said during the symposium. "Strategic attack can no longer just be defined as nuclear attack." Rather, attacks in space, or on earth with cyber, chemical, biological, or hypersonic weapons all could yield strategic effects.
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机译：美国不能再承担战略现代化，拜登政府应继续更新五角大楼计划的战略制度，高级军事领导人在AFA虚拟航空航天战争研讨会中举行了小组讨论。新政府已经表示，它将开展新的核态度审查和导弹防御审查，以及工作人员联合议员的副主席John E. Hyten，预测国防部也将进行空间姿势审查，因为战略景观已经急剧改变了。 “在21世纪的威慑力量与20世纪完全不同，”Hyten在研讨会期间说。 “战略攻击不再被定义为核攻击。”相反，在空间或地球上攻击网络，化学，生物或过度武器，都可以产生战略效果。
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