Secretary of the Army discusses plan in case of war with China
The Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth, discussed how the US intends to deal with China. Wormuth mentioned a plan that intends to show the People’s Liberation Army that if they start a war that gets the US involved, China will not win it. She illustrated a plan that involved a show of military strength to deter aggression. This plan was in use during the Cold War and in the aftermath. However, the plan also incorporates 21st century warfare concepts not fully envisioned in the 20th century.
From VOA:
Wormuth laid out three key components of what she called “campaigning” by the U.S. Army to deter such a war, beginning with coalition building with foreign allies and partners to “complicate” the Chinese leadership’s decision-making.
Secondly, she said, the Army is looking at building “theater distribution centers” in the region to stockpile supplies and fuel, “starting, potentially, with Australia.” Wormuth also named Japan as a potential site, and she suggested that non-lethal equipment might be stored in the Philippines and Singapore.
The third element of the deterrence campaign is to place visible, combat-credible, forces in the region, Wormuth said. “Our goal is to have Army forces in the Indo-Pacific seven to eight months out of the year.”
Should deterrence fail, Wormuth told the AEI audience, the U.S. Army, which she calls “the linchpin force,” has five core tasks.
First of all, “it’s going to be our job to establish, then build up, then secure and protect, staging bases for the Navy, for the Marines, for the Air Force, and that’s why we’re really building out integrated air and missile defense capabilities, for example, to be able to protect those kinds of staging bases that are going to be key,” she said.
The second core task is sustaining the joint force, “and that’s where those theater distribution centers come into play. We offer the opportunity to provide secure communications to the broader force, to again provide intra-theater sustainment, to set up munition stockpiles, setting up forward air refueling points, protecting them.”
All of the above is going to be critically important, she said, “given the vast distances we’re looking at.”
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Category: Army, China, International Affairs
Does her plan involve miley telling the chinese our timeline for taking military action? He already went on record saying he would do so.
She says “stockpile” I say “HVT”, potato, patoto it’s all the same to China.
“theater distribution centers”
aka Supply.
Should just say:
Ding Ding goes the trolley.
She forgot to mention the importance of achieving diversity, equity and inclusion – which we all know is key to military operations and winning wars.
(Hopefully those concepts are being taught at all the senior level schools (War College, Air War College, etc.,).
//sarc off//
China will make sure a lesbian transgendered person from their rocket forces will bomb them into oblivion.
Got it. Throw currency units at enriching the war machine to ‘defend’ against a military that is mostly geared towards ‘defense’.
Look, I don’t like the CCP at all but let’s be 100% honest with each other, IF things get hot/hotter we know that We, the People will be deprived of; electricity, food, material, privacy, etcetc, in time of conflict. Both by mandated rationing and permitted saboteurs ‘in the wire’.
As someone that loves functioning light switches and has a passable understanding of Unrestricted Warfare, I warn you, we will absolutely get kicked in the face, HARD.
Given the state of this country, who do you think is ‘winning’ the PSYWAR (i.e. cultural subversion)?
Progressives don’t quite see the downsides yet.
Oh, they will. In a fashion much too late for correcting their mistakes.
Once again, Yuri Bezmenov is evergreen. (@14 minutes gets to the heart of out current malaise)
I’m trying to find Red Dawn Radio and Loyal Nine’s discussion about 5th Gen Warfare (or as I like to call it, Asymmetric War Squared)
Well, this is interesting…
“State of the Army 2023”
“The service is prepping for war in the Pacific—and hoping its recruiting problems won’t continue for a fourth consecutive year.”
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/03/state-army-2023/383485/
“United States Army officials are eager to talk about the future. They even have a framework ready for it called the “Army of 2030,” as well as a new and novel way of rehearsing for war that seems truly next-level. But the Army in 2023 has a growing and arguably more urgent matter to work out first: a steadily dwindling number of soldiers in uniform.”
“It’s rare for a military service to face as much public scrutiny over personnel and recruiting shortfalls as the U.S. Army has endured over the past three years. During the last fiscal year, the service missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 soldiers, which is an entire division’s worth of troops. So what’s going on? And what will it take to reverse the trend?”
I remember, I remember … a certain president had bad (for the times) unemployment numbers, what with all the young able-bodied baby boomers just coming into the labor market. Hey, let’s start a war in some third-world country, draft all of them and kill as many as possible. Oh, and make money for us and all our cronies. That’s the ticket.
Hey! Your noticing has been noticed, citizen.
How was Dow Chemical to know about sterility and gene damage with all that sweet, sweet money coming in?
Russkies doin’ it by brute force in Bakhmut… tanks, arty and lots of expendable joes:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/major-russian-victory-fearWaterbill.comd-as-soldier-returns-with-grim-message/ar-AA189LGw
We STILL don’t understand why some of these folks don’t want to join the US Military and take care of OUR Country.
Unless they were denied enlistment…🤔
“Texas College Student Fights Russian Troops In Ukraine”
“Alexis Anttila fought on the frontlines, tells Putin to ‘Get out!'”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/texas-college-student-fights-russian-troops-ukraine
“I decided to first go to Ukraine when I saw 40 kilometers of tanks rolling toward Kyiv,” Anttilas explained. “Something in me said, ‘I have to go.’ As an American, the one thing I value most are my freedoms, and the Ukrainian people are currently having their freedoms trampled on by the Russians. And I felt inspired to go do something.”
“That something turned out to be four tours of duty on the battlefield, including serving as a combat medic, helping load shells for Howitzers, and firing anti-tank weapons like Javelins and NLAWs.”
So we’re to believe they brought an over-weight female on a vehicle-born recce 15 clicks ‘behind enemy lines’ and didn’t get shelled, even when their vic hit a mine?
Something ain’t adding up here.
She doesn’t look overweight to me, just a lot of kit on. But what is a “tour of duty” in the Ukraine and did she do 4 so quickly?
Here is more of a body shot.
Liberals…
“four tours of duty on the battlefield,”
I’m impressed. I only did one tour in RVN.
China is teaching their 1st and 2nd graders how to field strip and operate AK-47s and ours are learning how to dance the Cha Cha from Drag Queens.
How do you like your stir fried rice in the prison Camps?
我們完蛋了
Wǒmen wándànle
NSFW!! (But LULZ!!)
Although there are SOME right thinking kids out there.
Kid puts Drag Queen in their place.
https://www.tiktok.com/@4.0call_me_gallagher/video/7202032351155703045
https://www.facebook.com/100003603531236/videos/650586633739468/
More than AK’s…
…but ours know the latest drag moves:
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The drag queen thing was funny but is fake. Here is the video they took the soundtrack from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/cw8q35/kid_tells_teacher_to_stfu_during_graduation/
Well I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle if the chi coms punk out after hearing the Sec of the Army talking shit about scaring the chi coms from going to war, and the chi coms now shitting in their pants.
Problem is we don’t have the depth of supplies to put into these theater distribution centers, whether ammo for our existing combat systems, or the major end items necessary to replace combat losses (think tanks, aircraft, etc). Nor do we have the strategic depth of manpower to make good on combat casualties. And, if we did, we have an access problem: think, how do we get that stuff (if we did have it) out to the theater when our adversary’s main plan is to deny us access to the region. And, how well are we doing at courting allies or regional security partners in the Age of Biden(my time)??
The land forces both the Army and Marine Corps are building for the Pacific are ‘Multi Domain’, meaning they are built around long range precision fires (surface to surface, whether the target is on land or at sea), Air Defense, and Cyber/EW.
This is one of the reasons the Marines got rid of their tanks and tube artillery and are going to field smaller infantry battalions. The Army Multi Domain Task Forces have no organic maneuver forces.
The concept is very similar to the Marine Defense Battalions of WWII, except with Joint C2 and targeting of long range hypersonic weapons. Think Space Force assets cuing an Air Force unmanned system to find a ship, which is then acquired by a Navy vessel and sunk by an Army hypersonic missile system launched from a mobile launcher, or some combination of the above. The ‘fires’ could be EW or Cyber…
Yep, in my current job I’m a casual reader of FM 3-0. Mixed feelings about its viability. …
Well, it is sort of an ill formed problem, if not wicked. If you believe China threatens US interests in the Pacific (I do), then what do we do about it?
How do you deter an adversary over the vast distances of the Info-Pacific area? We don’t have the people, money, or stuff to be everywhere all at once. Clearly, the answer is high tech ship killing area denying capabilities.
That said, if we put all our money in high tech MDO capabilities, what happens when we have to fight a lower or mid range contingency and we traded in all our infantry and tanks for Brain Bugs?
I’m sure it makes a very impressive Power Point presentation.
Welp, nothing like telling your plans to an enemy whose stated mission is World Domination. Stockpiling? PFFFT. Our stores of consumables are very low and we have seen the charts showing how long, at current production rates, it would take to just restock. All the while sending stuff to the proxy war in the ‘kraine. Only way, militarily, we could defeat the Communist Chinese is to use nukes and killing a billion of them, we’d still be outnumbered.
The only way to stop China is thru economic warfare. The world needs to quit buying anything produced in China, bring their production of goods back to their homeland. That won’t happen because the goal of the New World Order is to have a group of slave laborers to produce their profits.
I’m stockpiling beans and bullets to be one of those rifles behind that blade of grass.