Washington could get more military leverage against China by using its soldiers imaginatively in the Pacific.
Share to twitterThe main focus of U.S. defense strategy has shifted from defeating violent extremists—terrorists—to opposing aggression by other great powers. Those other powers are understood to be China and Russia. Pentagon planners now spend much of their time figuring out how to deter Russian adventurism in Europe, and Chinese expansionism in Asia.
This all seems fairly obvious if you look at maps of the two regions. However, maybe it isn’t as obvious as it appears in the case of a Pacific mission for America’s Army. The reason is that both China’s and America’s strategies for the Western Pacific revolve around a series of islands stretching from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. Some of these islands could provide basing opportunities for U.S.
That’s where the U.S. Army has a role to play. The active and reserve components of the Army host over four times as many warfighters as the entire Marine Corps, and unlike the Marines, U.S. soldiers are not constantly on call to respond to emergencies in places like North Africa and the Persian Gulf. With only a modest peacetime presence expected for U.S.
Not that the Army would need to rely solely on organic fires like the rapidly evolving Precision Strike Munition. It might be able to adapt the Navy’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, a stealthy, extremely accurate munition, for mobile forward deployment against both maritime and land targets. As its concept of multi-domain operations evolves, it will naturally mesh more closely with overhead, sea-based and other assets that can assist in tracking Chinese targets.
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