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ASC NEWS: U.S. Military Re-Emphasizing Large Warfighting Exercises
ASC NEWS: U.S. Military Re-Emphasizing Large Warfighting Exercises
Reforger 21 please! Or perhaps Reforpol?![]()
Inside Project Convergence: How the US Army is preparing for war in the next decade
Project Convergence at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, is testing out how a modernized Army can win against near-peer adversaries.www.defensenews.com
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Kill ’Em All? Denial Strategies, Defense Planning, and Deterrence Failure - War on the Rocks
Should the United States be ready to destroy hundreds of Chinese vessels or thousands of Russian armored vehicles in just a few days during a conflict?warontherocks.com
Not only would this enhance conventional deterrence by denial, insofar as China would be unable to conduct a brute force assault or count on militarized economic coercion, but the ability to wipe out expensive and prestigious assets such as modern submarines and surface combatants could have the added bonus of contributing to conventional deterrence by punishment.If the U.S. military had the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of China’s military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours, Chinese leaders might think twice before, say, launching a blockade or invasion of Taiwan; they would have to wonder whether it was worth putting their entire fleet at risk.
“Our authoritarian rivals see the strategic context as a continuous struggle in which nonmilitary and military instruments are used unconstrained by any distinction between peace and war. These regimes believe that they are already engaged in an intense form of conflict that is predominantly political rather than kinetic,” he said. “Their way of warfare is strategic, it is synchronized and systematic, and our response must be too.”British “Third Offset???”
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Britain unveils new operating concept for a ‘fundamental transformation in the military’
The chief of the Defence Staff says key changes backed by the concept include improved integration of effort across government and with allies, equipment modernization, and constant competition with adversaries below the threshold of war.www.defensenews.com