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Ben Ho Wan Beng and Gary Lehmann, Breaking Defense: The Next Pacific War: Lessons From Wake Island For The PLA
China's increasingly aggressive rise puts the Pacific theater in play in a way it hasn't been since 1945. In this essay, Singaporean scholar Ben Ho Wan Beng and retired US Marine Gary Lehmann look at what a critical but overlooked World War II battle has to tell us about the potential strengths -- and weaknesses -- of the Marine Corps's new concept for waging the next Pacific war. -- the editors
Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) is the new Navy-Marine Corps concept for using land units forward-deployed ashore to help win a naval war. EABO is intended to turn the tables on our adversaries’ Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) strategies, using island outposts to help US land, sea, and air forces survive and fight in the face of enemy sensors and long-range precision missiles.
According to the 2017 concept for Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), EABO proposes deploying relatively modest forces — companies, platoons, even single squads — in austere temporary locations, hidden from enemy sensors and able to rapidly relocate. This would confound enemy planning by forcing them to split their resources over a wider and more dispersed set of threats.
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2 comments:
Good, but using Wake as an analysis point for future wars is unnerving. Some good points; range and air cover, but all this has been taken into account. We would simply not place platoons on small islands to hold them. Land is not something worth anything in battle these days, it's the Air and missle assets that will define how the war will be fought and won. Land can be settled afterwards.
I'm assuming the Chinese are reading and agreeing with their own strategy.
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