>The military drill came as the U.S. Army Pacific, a component of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, released a theater army strategy last month. It called for achieving “positional advantage with decisive land power” to win strategic competition and to prevail in war.
I was confused by the quote at first, but I guess when there’s so little land in the area, decisive land power becomes all the more important.
Aircraft carriers probably help, though.
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real_picklejuice on
I don’t ever want to see it, but just as how drones and new war tech has turned Europe back to dug in trench warfare, it will be interesting to see how it changes island hopping strategies
NotDukeOfDorchester on
Leave it to us Marines.
Gullible-Lie2494 on
Might be wrong but I think the deal is if China gets Taiwan deep seaports it can reach out into the Pacific.
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>The military drill came as the U.S. Army Pacific, a component of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, released a theater army strategy last month. It called for achieving “positional advantage with decisive land power” to win strategic competition and to prevail in war.
I was confused by the quote at first, but I guess when there’s so little land in the area, decisive land power becomes all the more important.
Aircraft carriers probably help, though.
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I don’t ever want to see it, but just as how drones and new war tech has turned Europe back to dug in trench warfare, it will be interesting to see how it changes island hopping strategies
Leave it to us Marines.
Might be wrong but I think the deal is if China gets Taiwan deep seaports it can reach out into the Pacific.