
Army Gen. Mark Milley, the joint chiefs chairman, told lawmakers on Wednesday he would not recommend pausing development of the future Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile as a means of saving funds for other priorities, citing a concern that a delay would lead to a gap in nuclear deterrence capability. “I would not recommend taking that money away and putting it elsewhere,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee. “The recapitalization of the entire [nuclear] triad, to…