US Army’s ‘Defender Pacific’ drill to focus on South China Sea scenario
By: Jen Judson  
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army’s major exercise in the Indo-Pacific theater in fiscal 2020 will focus on a South China Sea scenario, Gen. Robert Brown, the commander of U.S. Army Pacific, told Defense News in a March 26 interview at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium.
The service is funding two major exercises in FY20: one in the Pacific and one in Europe.
The exercise is fueled by a rising China, characterized in the National Defense Strategy as a long-term, strategic competitor of the United States. The NDS lays out a world where great power competition rather than counterterrorism will drive the Defense Department’s decision-making and force structure.
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