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The key for me is how they plan to use it. If you load up a couple batteries into LCACs (maybe bring along an army PAC-3 battery), and play a shell game of sorts on different atolls and sites on the atolls using F-35's from the fleet as sensors to cue HIMARS/Patriot-- well, that's probably useful even if it only continually robs the PLAN of initiative.All the talk of turning the islands and atolls into expeditionary "bases" with forward air fields seems like a giant waste of effort. Too hard to defend and keep a fixed facility of that sort operational under those circumstances. Logistics alone seems like a nightmare unless you have undisputed control of air and sea.Mobile detachments that are small enough to supply and sustain by LCAC and aviation assets, however, might fare better. Particularly if they are dispersed and frequently re-sited.
The key for me is how they plan to use it. If you load up a couple batteries into LCACs (maybe bring along an army PAC-3 battery), and play a shell game of sorts on different atolls and sites on the atolls using F-35's from the fleet as sensors to cue HIMARS/Patriot-- well, that's probably useful even if it only continually robs the PLAN of initiative.
All the talk of turning the islands and atolls into expeditionary "bases" with forward air fields seems like a giant waste of effort. Too hard to defend and keep a fixed facility of that sort operational under those circumstances. Logistics alone seems like a nightmare unless you have undisputed control of air and sea.
Mobile detachments that are small enough to supply and sustain by LCAC and aviation assets, however, might fare better. Particularly if they are dispersed and frequently re-sited.
