China is the “pacing threat,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Tuesday, but homeland security and southern border operations are just as important as countering that threat.

"I think my understanding of the administration's priorities and the Secretary of War is China is the pacing threat,” Driscoll said on the sidelines of the annual Association of the U.S. Army’s conference in Washington, D.C. “We must, as a nation, be ready to provide security to Americans no matter where they are located in the world.”

But Driscoll stopped short of calling China the top priority, adding that “we are also, at the same time, in parallel, executing on providing security and maintaining what the president has done at the border.”

Strategic documents have detailed the shift in military focus from China

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