An eight-plane formation over Guam during exercise Cope North 21, February 9, 2021. US Air Force/Senior Airman Duncan C. Bevan
Business Insider: The US Air Force's plan to dodge Chinese missiles means new jobs for airmen who keep fighters flying
* With an eye on China's growing missiles, the US Air Force is training to spread its forces out.
* Dispersed operations means airmen will be spread thin, so the Air Force is training them to do more.
The US Air Force's efforts to disperse its forces have gained new urgency as the Chinese military grows in size and reach, but operating from far-flung, often austere airfields creates new logistical challenges. To overcome them, the service is asking its airmen to take on new tasks.
Expeditionary operations aren't new for the Air Force, but they're getting special attention in the Pacific, where important facilities, like Anderson Air Force Base on Guam, are within range of Chinese missiles.
The Air Force has spent more time refining a concept known as Agile Combat Employment, which pairs bases like Anderson, or hubs, with remote airfields, called spokes. To support operations at those spokes, the service is looking to "multi-capable airmen," who have been trained do tasks outside their assigned specialties.
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WNU editor: This new training to handle logistics and operations that are dispersed makes sense. If there is ever a conflict between the U.S. and China. To me it is a given that these major US bases in the Western Pacific will be targeted and destroyed very quickly.
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Yes. Japan's island bases tactic, supplied by freighters, poorly protected, was a limited success. We were raiding them soon after Pearl Harbor.
What did the Marine Raiders accomplish?
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 Guadacanal Campaign
March 26 – July 2, 1945 Battle of Okinawa
It took 3 years and 8 months to go through those islands. So were the fortified islands that could serve as Naval anchorage, air bases and general supply depots worthless?
You won't get an exact or may a definitive answer, but you ahve to wargame out alternatives to come up with an educated guess.
Was the German resources put into the Schwerer worth it? It knocked out 6 or so forts easily around Sevastopol. Some have argued that it took the divisions worht of manpowerit took to serrvice and priovide logistcs for the gun would have been better spent elsewhere.
So could the Germans have taken Sevastopol faster or more cheaply if they had not used Schwerer and had trained, equipped and deployed that division's worth of men differently?
I have my doubts both ways.
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Were Makin's Raiders effective? It caused the Japanese to expend resources. It made those islands harder to crack in the future. It also tied down resources on islands not attacked and kept them away from the China and Burma theaters. Troops or no troops, fortified or not fortified, the Japanese did not have enough hulls and airframes. Their pilot training sucked. They had excellent pilots and they let them get chewed up and short shrifted the training of newer pilots.
I would say defense in depth works with islands or whatever, if you can underpin it.
Next war will be Napoleonic if it is general shooting war. It will be the law of large battalions if both sides have an equal AI hair trigger.
It is hard to see the US winning, when liberals purposefully put down our energy grid. Notice how the liberals lie. They said liberals allowed extra production of CO2. That is true. ERCOT requested it and they got some of their request not all of it. They requested to put more coal plants on line than liberals wanted. Liberals gave them a fraction. If more coal plants were on line ahead of the cold snap like ERCOT wanted, gas power plants would not have their gas pipeline shut down due to lack of energy. The coal or gas plant that had a cold weather failure would have already been running and the problem fixed or due to it being running already it would not have had a frozen pipe problem in the first place. Or would have been backed up by another plant.
During a cold snap they tell owners and renters to crack own their faucets and let water drip or flow out to keep the water running to keep them from freezing. In essence the green war liberals did not allow it.
Prevent your pipes from bursting during a freeze: How many faucets should be left dripping?
Liberals cried foul over their precious windmills breaking they whined that a gas plant broke too. If it had already been on line like ERCOT wanted and EPA denied, would the gas line of the plant frozen?
My point about the energy grid is that America will not have large battalions. They will not have a deep bench. They won't have the energy or industrial capacity to create one. Also they will lose to the Chinese who will have enough replacements, a mobile reserve and everything else to keep going.
Liberals cannot keep the lights on much less defeat the Chinese.
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