{"id":137918,"date":"2023-03-03T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137918"},"modified":"2023-03-02T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:17:17","slug":"secretary-of-the-army-discusses-plan-in-case-of-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=137918","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of the Army discusses plan in case of war with China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth, discussed how the US intends to deal with China. Wormuth mentioned a plan that intends to show the People’s Liberation Army that if they start a war that gets the US involved, China will not win it. She illustrated a plan that involved a show of military strength to deter aggression. This plan was in use during the Cold War and in the aftermath. However, the plan also incorporates 21st century warfare concepts not fully envisioned in the 20th century.<\/p>\n

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Wormuth laid out three key components of what she called “campaigning” by the U.S. Army to deter such a war, beginning with coalition building with foreign allies and partners to “complicate” the Chinese leadership’s decision-making.<\/p>\n

Secondly, she said, the Army is looking at building “theater distribution centers” in the region to stockpile supplies and fuel, “starting, potentially, with Australia.” Wormuth also named Japan as a potential site, and she suggested that non-lethal equipment might be stored in the Philippines and Singapore.<\/p>\n

The third element of the deterrence campaign is to place visible, combat-credible, forces in the region, Wormuth said. “Our goal is to have Army forces in the Indo-Pacific seven to eight months out of the year.”<\/p>\n

Should deterrence fail, Wormuth told the AEI audience, the U.S. Army, which she calls “the linchpin force,” has five core tasks.<\/p>\n

First of all, “it’s going to be our job to establish, then build up, then secure and protect, staging bases for the Navy, for the Marines, for the Air Force, and that’s why we’re really building out integrated air and missile defense capabilities, for example, to be able to protect those kinds of staging bases that are going to be key,” she said.<\/p>\n

The second core task is sustaining the joint force, “and that’s where those theater distribution centers come into play. We offer the opportunity to provide secure communications to the broader force, to again provide intra-theater sustainment, to set up munition stockpiles, setting up forward air refueling points, protecting them.”<\/p>\n

All of the above is going to be critically important, she said, “given the vast distances we’re looking at.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

VOA has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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