Navy Is About To Go Big On Massive Joint War Training Across The Pacific
Huge exercises will stress test U.S. armed forces and they will also reveal what requirements are most pressing to make such a massive joint fight a reality.
Thomas Newdick
Published Apr 8, 2025 2:27 PM EDT
The U.S. Department of Defense is starting to rehearse how its joint forces will fight as an integrated team across a massive battlespace in future war against China, rather than each of its services conducting their own maneuvers to practice for the same kind of scenario. In doing so, the aim is to get a much clearer idea in terms of requirements of what is needed to make such a complex combat engagement work. Prior to this sea-change, critical requirements generation wasn’t being done effectively or efficiently, according to Vice Adm. Michael Boyle, Director of Navy Staff within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, who laid out the Navy’s vision at the Sea-Air-Space Conference this week in National Harbor, Maryland.
The type of training that Boyle outlined underscores the fact that the Pentagon is now grappling with the reality of having to fight China on a grand scale in the Pacific theater. Coupled with this is the reality that, to stand any chance of success in such a scenario, the U.S. military would require a full and near seamless integration of its joint forces — as well as working alongside allies and partners.
“If we’re going to integrate the joint force, then how do we provide joint requirements?” Boyle observed when asked about particular challenges in the Pacific theater. “And so, I said, ‘How do we provide joint requirements?’ And we really don’t — the services each provide requirements. So, what’s the best place to determine what a requirement might be? In my mind, it’s joint rehearsal.
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