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Pentagon

Esper Details New DoD Initiatives To Bolster International Partnerships, FMS Cases

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

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Esper Details New DoD Initiatives To Bolster International Partnerships, FMS Cases

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

The Pentagon has two new initiatives to bolster international partnerships for the shift toward great power competition with China and Russia, including a new plan for tracking development of security cooperation efforts and taking a more “strategic enterprise approach” to foreign military sales. Defense Secretary Mark Esper provided details during a Tuesday discussion with the Atlantic Council of the new Department of Defense Guidance for Development of Alliances and Partnerships (GDAP), which went into effect last month, as well as…

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