Four-star spotlights key problem areas for the Army in the Pacific
By Todd South
Oct 12, 01:45 PM
When Gen. Charles Flynn scans about half the globe to keep his Army forces ready in the Pacific, there are three key areas that pull his attention.
Those are the southeast, western and northern areas surrounding Singapore.
That’s what the four-star told a Singapore military officer who asked him about specific challenges in the Pacific when Flynn gave his Tuesday presentation on Multi-Domain Operations in the Pacific during the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting.
By Todd South
“It gives me concern not because of the adversaries, but because of our strategic reach, our operational reach,” said Flynn, commander of U.S. Army Pacific. “It is that great distance — the geometry of that geography out there — [that] matters.”
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