Topic: Pacing Challenge

President Joe Biden arrived in the United Kingdom for his first overseas trip, meeting with U.S. forces at RAF Mildenhall before the G7 and NATO summits. Biden identified global warming as the greatest threat facing the military and repeatedly used the term "pacing challenge" to describe the strategic competition with China. The hosts analyze the linguistic shift in military terminology and Biden's upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby repeatedly used the term "pacing challenge" to describe the U.S. military's stance toward China. Additionally, the Department of Defense announced the establishment of the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies. The naming of the center after the late Alaska Senator, who died in a plane crash, is noted as a curious choice given the strategic importance of the Arctic region.