{"id":39091,"date":"2013-12-30T14:34:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39091"},"modified":"2013-12-30T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:34:29","slug":"army-wants-in-to-the-pacific-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39091","title":{"rendered":"Army wants in to the Pacific Rim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the nations in the Pacific Rim are mostly surrounded by water, the Army is worried that it might get left out of the fight, should one occur in the region. So, since Big Army doesn’t have ships, their big idea is to create mobile forces that will be stationed on those islands, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Calculating that there are only slim chances of the Army fighting a big land war anywhere in the Far East other than the Korean Peninsula, the new top Army commander in the Pacific, Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, wants his forces to more quickly and effectively respond to small conflicts, isolated acts of aggression and natural disasters. Doing so, however, has traditionally been a challenge for the Army, which bases most of its soldiers assigned to the Orient in Hawaii, Alaska and Washington state. To overcome what he calls \u201cthe tyranny of distance,\u201d Brooks is trying to make his forces more maritime and expeditionary.<\/p>\n

To cut travel time and increase regional familiarity, he is seeking authorization to send key elements of a U.S.-based infantry brigade to Asia and keep them there for months at a time, moving every few weeks to different nations to conduct training exercises. The rotating deployment, which amounts to the first proposed increase in U.S. forces in Asia in years, could enable the Army to move more speedily to address humanitarian crises and security threats. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that makes sense, well, very little. I doubt very much that the largely peaceful nations of the Pacific Rim will welcome a foreign armed force for a few years and then move on to another location. And as difficult as Big Army is making retention, I’m pretty sure that it will be hard to retain experience that is being jerked from island to island every few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re trying to create a second Marine Corps in the Pacific,\u201d said a Marine general, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the Army\u2019s internal plans. \u201cTo save their budget, they want to build a force the nation doesn\u2019t need.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big Army is worried about losing their budget, and I use the word budget in it’s loosest sense, because it seems to me that moving a significant number of troops from place-to-place seems like a huge waste of money. If they want a force in the Pacific that can respond to brushfires there, they should bring back the airborne forces, station them in Hawaii and Korea with an appropriate amount of airlift capability for each. Lord knows that there are enough 5-jump chumps in the Army to fill the ranks of a couple of divisions of paratroopers and from Korea and Hawaii, they can be anywhere within a few hours in the region. It’s not a perfect plan, but it’s a better plan than creating a bunch of trailer park gypsy battalions.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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