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Mandate requires all U.S. defense efforts to focus on prevailing in a China pacing scenario and denying a Taiwan fait accompli before allocating resources to other simultaneous conflicts.

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Mandate demands allies take far greater conventional responsibility—transform NATO so allies field the great majority of conventional forces vs. Russia while reducing U.S. force posture in Europe, plus similar shifts for Gulf, ROK, and Taiwan/Japan/Australia.

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Mandate’s warfighting-culture agenda includes abolishing DEI offices, eliminating CRT programs, reversing transgender service and related medical funding, removing unfit recruits, and reinstating troops discharged over COVID vaccine refusal.

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Mandate lists as Priority No. 3 that DoD provide necessary support to DHS border protection, treating the border as a national security issue requiring sustained whole-of-executive-branch effort.

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Mandate seeks PPBE reform, portfolio funding flexibility, nontraditional funding for emerging tech, annual Night Court terminations of underperforming programs, and study of adversary acquisition speed.

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Mandate pushes replenishing Ukraine-depleted stocks, multiyear procurements, prioritizing domestic/allied Build America requirements, reviewing onshoring sectors, and growing small vendors—closing overseas manufacturing loopholes.

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Mandate calls for expanding and modernizing the nuclear arsenal—including new theater-level capabilities—so America can deter Russia and China simultaneously and avoid nuclear coercion, plus restoring nuclear infrastructure.

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Mandate states missile defense has been underprioritized and that the incoming Administration should treat it as a top priority and prioritize procurement of more regional defense systems.

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Mandate recommends recreating an interwar-style General Board with final authority over ship requirements and establishing a Rapid Capabilities Office modeled on the Space Development Agency to field ‘good enough’ systems fast.

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Mandate endorses transforming Marine force structure—eliminating law-enforcement battalions, converting infantry to littoral regiments, maintaining tank divestment, eliminating most M777 batteries, and reducing AAV/replacements—aligned with Force Design 2030 and LAW shipbuilding.

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Mandate criticizes elimination of offensive space deterrence capabilities and urges reducing overclassification, altering SDA ‘fail-early’ methods, increasing Space Force general officers, and exploring a Space Force Academy.

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Mandate instructs ending Cyber Command participation in federal efforts to fortify U.S. elections to eliminate perception of DoD partisan politics, while accelerating cyber-EW integration and lowering approval authorities.

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Mandate says DAU should decentralize offerings and accredit non-DoD institutions because DAU has become an unnecessary barrier to entry for acquisition professionals.