Third GOP presidential primary debate: on Homeland Security
Nikki Haley:
Strengthen our military; send message to China
Nikki Haley: When we strengthen our military, when we modernize it with the focus of cyber, artificial intelligence, and space, when we make sure that we have the backs of our friends, and we should be arming Taiwan. Make sure they
have the equipment they need, make sure they have the training they need now. There is nothing China fears more than knowing that America will have Taiwan's back. Let's make sure that we show it by making sure they have the equipment they need.
Source: NBC News 2023 Republican primary debate in Miami
Nov 8, 2023
Ron DeSantis:
We have to be strong and defend the people who defend us
Q: Just today the US launched another one of its limited airstrikes against targets in Syria this time Iranian linked facility, how far would you go militarily to hold Iran accountable?DeSantis: I actually served in Iraq back in the day and we
had Al-Qaeda in Iraq, you had Shia militias that were funded by Iran that were killing 100s and 100s of US troops. And as commander-in-chief, I am not going to put our troops in harm's way unless you're willing to defend them with everything you have.
Biden has [US naval ships and troops] out there, they're sitting ducks, he's doing glancing blows, that's just inviting more attacks from the Iranians. I would say you harm a hair on the head of an American service member and you are
going to have hell to pay. We are not just going to sit there and let our service members be sitting ducks. And that's true whether it's Iran or whether it's any country on the world. We have to be strong and we have to defend the people who defend us.
Source: NBC News 2023 Republican primary debate in Miami
Nov 8, 2023
Ron DeSantis:
Increase naval fleet to 600 ships over next 20 years
Gov. Ron DeSanti: If China's able to be the world's leading superpower that will affect you and your family in ways that are going to be very bad. They will export authoritarianism all around the world as the cost of doing business. This is to this
generation what the Soviet Union was to the post-World War II generation. We're going to get to 355 ships at the end of the first term, 385 ships at the end of the second term, but we're going to have a path to 600 ships over the next 20 years.
Source: NBC News 2023 Republican primary debate in Miami
Nov 8, 2023
Tim Scott:
Invest heavily so military can fight on three continents
Tim Scott: In order for us to have the military to fight three different continents at the exact same time, we are going to have to invest heavily in our military, but we're also going to have to invest heavily in an industrial base so that we
can hit our objectives from a military perspective, not only with our ships, but also with our planes. We are so old as a military that in order for us to recalibrate, we're going to have to invest.
Source: NBC News 2023 Republican primary debate in Miami
Nov 8, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
We need to increase our naval capacity by at least 20%
Vivek Ramaswamy: I think that we need to increase our naval capacity by at least 20% over the course of the next several years and be able to meet our AUKUS agreement standards. Right now, we are at risk of not even being able to meet our
AUKUS standards with Australia and the UK. So what we need to do is have a plan that reverses the trajectory of the divest to invest program by 20% over the next three years.
Source: NBC News 2023 Republican primary debate in Miami
Nov 8, 2023
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