America’s Maritime Army: How the U.S. Military Would Fight China?
James Holmes
By
James Holmes
Published
March 28, 2021
America’s Maritime Army
A couple of weeks back the U.S. Army released the latest in the family of strategy documents to issue forth from the armed services, alongside such directives as the U.S. Marines’ Tentative Manual for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations and the sea services’ Triservice Maritime Strategy. Read the whole thing and hurry on back. Titled Army Multi-Domain Transformation, this “Chief of Staff Paper†from General James McConville makes it official: the army is back in the sea-power business.
And nary a moment too soon.
Under the multi-domain concept, light army units will deploy as “inside forces†along Asia’s first island chain in stressful times. They will defy China’s access- and area-denial defenses, remaining within the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) weapons-engagement zone and enduring or eluding punishment while meting out heavy blows of their own. Demonstrated resilience and combat capability will give heart to allies who may doubt America’s staying power and ability to keep its security commitments to them. U.S. alliances will hold.
And Xi Jinping will weep bitter tears.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/03/americas-maritime-army-how-the-u-s-military-would-fight-china/
