The U.S. has been securing new basing facilities and conducting large-scale combat exercises in the Western Pacific.
he commissioned in 2020: “With the shift in our primary focus to great-power competition and a renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific region,” the plan indicates, the Marines have “a requirement for smaller, lower signature and more affordable amphibious ships and … affordable, distributable [combat] platforms.” To finance the procurement of all these new platforms, Berger proposesThe U.S.
Especially indicative of the Marines’ new thinking is a series of exercises called “Resolute Dragon,” held in conjunction with the Japan Self-Defense Forces over the past two years. Although ostensibly focused on defending Japan’s main islands, the exercises appear to embody a larger strategic sweep, involving joint amphibious operations throughout the region., held December 4-17 of that year, some 2,650 Marines and 1,400 soldiers from the JSDF engaged in simulated maritime assault operations.
Guam was again the site of a simulated airborne assault one year later, as part of the Army’s Exercise Forager 2021. On this occasion, soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st Special Forces Group, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, were joined by Japanese paratroopers in the mock invasion. In a test of the Army’s ability to project power into the region directly from the United States, the participating U.S.from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, to the Guam drop location.
Just recently, on February 2, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signed an agreement with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.to four more bases in his country, in addition to four other facilities the Pentagon has been allowed to use under a previous accord. The new facilities, like the four covered under a 2014 agreement, do not involve a permanent U.S. military presence but allow for the use of runways and logistical facilities.
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