Senior Department of Defense leaders in both the Biden and Trump administrations agree that the Chinese Communist Party poses the greatest threat to the United States. One senator has made it his personal mission to get the military to back that rhetoric with action.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) brings up Russian and Chinese aggression in both the aerial and maritime domains off Alaska’s coasts in every Armed Services Committee hearing, whether it’s for the confirmations of military civilian appointees or annual hearings from combatant commanders.