Reshaping Perimeter Defense: A New Pacific Island Strategy
08/12/2019
By Robbin Laird
Ed Timperlake laid out some years ago how the Marines might spearhead an island leveraging counter strategy to how the Chinese are shaping their military force and coming out into deeper into the Pacific.
That island leveraging strategy focused upon how the new capabilities — the Osprey, the F-35B and the CH-53K, when combined with a new build infrastructure for offensive or defensive missiles located throughout the Pacific — whether U.S. or Allied — could shape new capabilities which would provide for a forward defense built in front of an air-sea operational U.S. and allied force.
Two recent developments highlighted by the Trump Administration and the Pentagon have brought into highlight the importance of that strategy articulated by Timperlake several years ago.
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